UX Designer

UX Designer

Remote

£competitive salary + perm benefits

Either current or eligibility to gain Security clearance is needed for this role!

A leading consultancy organisation is looking to grow their digital arm of the business and add a UX designer to there growing team. This is a fantastic organisation which is looking to invest heavily in your career with leading training and career progression trajectory in place. The successful UX Designer will be passionate about user centred design, critical thinking, problem solving and designing and building digital services and products.

Responsibilities

• 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 some of our public and private sector clients.
• 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.

Skills

• 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.
• 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.
• Experienced in rapid paper and digital prototyping.
• Ability to build prototypes using code to create dynamic prototypes using HTML, CSS and Javascript.