Rate: £550 per day (Inside IR35)
Duration: 6 months
Start Date: ASAP
Location: Remote
Clearance: Active SC Required
Must Have Government Experience
As an Interaction/UX Designer, you will:
- Create prototypes, wireframes, mock-ups, workflows, user flows, site maps, and storyboards, as well as interactive design, graphic design, and information architecture.
- Be proficient with tools such as Sketch, Invision Studio, Balsamiq, Axure, and GOV.UK Prototype Kit.
- Interpret evidence-based research, identify user issues/pain points and important needs, engage with websites, platforms, and services, and incorporate findings into your work.
- Understand usability issues of a diverse population and develop ways of engaging those users.
- Design a consistent user experience across mobile devices and desktop platforms.
- Collaborate with user researchers and content designers to test, iterate, and launch products and services that satisfy stakeholders.
- Liaise with Product Owners and Stakeholders to clarify requirements.
- Work with Business Analysts on refining and updating designs aligned with business requirements.
- Liaise with development teams to clarify the feasibility of a design and ensure the UX solution is correctly transitioned into development.
Skills We Can't Do Without:
- Ability to iterate on designs rapidly and devise multiple variant concepts for testing.
- Develop interaction design and user interface to meet user needs and accessibility standards.
- In-depth knowledge and experience in user-centred design approach.
- Communicate effectively across organisational and technical boundaries, understanding the context.
- Identify needs and engage with users or stakeholders to collate user needs evidence, using quantitative and qualitative data to turn user focus into outcomes.
- Deliver information architecture, user journeys, task models, user flows, site flows, sketches, wireframes, and prototypes.
- Prototype in code, understanding security, accessibility, and version control.
- Knowledge of agile methodology and the ability to apply an agile mindset to your work.
- Understand the importance of team dynamics, collaboration, and the ability to give and receive constructive feedback.