Job Title: Interaction Designer
Location: Worthing
Initial Duration: 6 Months
Daily Rate: £400 - £600 per day
Inside IR35
Umbrella Only
Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team to deliver highly user focused and successful digital services.
You will:
- Produce design concepts for digital services, often working to very tight deadlines, and work with front end developers to implement those concepts
- Design and create communication material ensuring all elements are well designed, consistent and user focused
- Partner with colleagues to facilitate a consistent user experience, including by designing reusable elements of a digital service
- Build relationships and work effectively within an agile delivery model with colleagues and external providers, for example user researchers and business analysts
- Deliver high quality finished digital service designs that meet web standards and GDS/GOV.UK design principles, ensuring that elements such as accessibility are built into designs from the outset
- Proactively seek new learning opportunities and look to continually improve by gaining feedback from your peers and the business
- Communicate credibly with a wide range of digital delivery disciplines and talent both internally and externally
Requirements:
- Practical experience in designing interfaces and transaction flows for the web
- Ability to prototype for the web & design in browser
- Basic understanding of web technologies and how they affect design, including accessibility
- Experience of web and mobile application interface design
- Experience in researching design with users
- Service design experience, including user journey mapping
- Experience working within an agile, multi-disciplinary team environment, and ability to deliver iterative design components (including user journeys) to the development team
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Problem solving and creativity skills
Core Skills:
- Sketching
- Design production
- Hand-coded HTML & CSS
- Rapid prototyping