User Experience Designer
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Job: User Experience Designer Salary: Up to £55k + excellent benefits package (medical and life assurance) Job Type: Permanent/Full time Location: Remote - occasional travel to client site as/when required I'm working with a global digital transformation consulting firm, looking for User Experience Designers to work on exciting digital projects, across the UK, within the public sector. What you'll do
- Use different techniques to identify and understand users and their needs, so that you can translate user stories and propose user-focused, evidence-based design approaches to meet these needs.
- Design accessible and impactful products and services for public and private sector clients.
- Employ a wide range of skills, interviewing users, creating detailed plans, understanding and extrapolating data, facilitating workshops, presenting research findings and more
- Visualise, articulate and solve complex problems and concepts, and make disciplined decisions based on available information and research evidence.
- Apply technical knowledge and experience to create or design interactive prototypes, both products and services.
- Understand and resolve design-centric disputes across varying levels of complexity and risk.
- Lead and guide teams, setting the pace, ensuring teams are delivering.
- You can work in a fast-paced, evolving environment and use an iterative method and flexible approach to enable rapid Agile delivery.
- Communicate effectively across organisational and technical boundaries, understanding the context and making complex and technical information simple and accessible for non-technical audiences.
- Business Development – Leading/contributing to proposals, RFPs, bids, proposition development, client pitch contribution, client hosting at events.
- Internal contribution – Campaign development, internal think-tanks, whitepapers, practice development (operations, recruitment, team events & activities), offering development.
- Learning & development – Training to support your career development and the skills demand within the company, certifications etc.
- Grounding in user-centred design, from concept to final delivery. Knowledge of which tools, process or methods to use and how to bring an agile delivery team along with you.
- Evidence of Working with User Centred Design colleagues to synthesize insights and act on the outcomes.
- You will either already have SC (Security Check) Clearance or you are able to qualify for this level of clearance (by being a UK resident for at least 3 years and not having left the country for more than 6 consecutive months during this period)
- Experience working with Government Digital Service (GDS) service standards, using GDS design principles and GDS prototyping toolkit
- Experience using a range of design tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, Invision Studio, Axure etc.
- An empathetic approach and ability to listen to the needs of technical and business stakeholders, and interpret them in a way that is clear for both audiences.
- Ability to present designs and justify decisions you’ve made using an evidence-based approach.
- Proven ability to create high-quality, compelling design concepts and artefacts such as personas, service maps and wireframes.
- Understanding of what good digital services look like and how to design in an inclusive, accessible way.
- Experienced in rapid paper and digital prototyping.
- Ability to build prototypes using code to create dynamic prototypes using HTML, CSS and Javascript.
- Global digital transformation consulting firm
- Winner at the Glassdoor Employee's choice awards for the 4th year running, placing in the top 50 employers in it's list of the best places to work in 2024.
- Named as one of the world's most ethical companies by Ethisphere Institute for the 10th year, you'd be joining a team that does the right thing.
- Office locations in London, Manchester and Glasgow.
- Unique training opportunities to take advantage of. Outside of dedicated training, everyone makes time to help and support one another - collaboration is encouraged across all teams.
- Flexible benefit options to suit each individuals circumstances.
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