UX Designer required to join our public sector client on a 6-month contract (fully remote).
The ideal candidate will have a love of the web and its possibilities, a passion for design and its history and an understanding of how form and function work together.
Key Responsibilities/Duties
* 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
* Assisting the Team Leader in examining packages of work and giving realistic timescales for completion
* 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
Key skills required
* Practical experience in designing interfaces and transaction flows for the Web and ability to prototype for the web & design in browser
* A good understanding of web technologies and how they affect design, including accessibility
* Experience of web and mobile application interface design. Core skills: sketching, design production, hand-coded HTML & CSS, rapid prototyping
* Responsive web interactions design for mobile devices.
* Experience in researching design with users and 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.
* Leading and Communicating
* Delivering at Pace
Desirable/Beneficial skills
* Prior Government experience
* GDS guideline experience