UX Designer

UX Designer - Inside IR35 - Hybrid - Edinburgh/Glasgow

Market Rates

Duration - 6 months

Harvey Nash's Public Sector Client are looking to bring in a contract UX Designer to join their growing team.

Key tasks will include but will not be limited to:

• Produce designs based on insights delivered by UX research team members
• Work within an agile product team so that design work fits seamlessly into wider team workflow
• Provide a consistent experience to users by setting and working to appropriate quality standards, using an established design system
• Provide feedback and advice to wider design colleagues
• Plan, design and conduct user research when required, using appropriate strategies to test new ideas and concept development as well as usability testing of more mature products
• Provide leadership and direction around the application of user-centred design, UX best practice and emerging trends

Experience Required

• Extensive experience working in the field of UX design
• Proven experience in delivering design solutions to fast moving agile teams
• Experience in choosing and applying appropriate user-centred research methods
• Experience of working both independently and as part of a team, whilst balancing a range of competing priorities
• Experience of leading team meetings, webinars, events and/or conferences online
• Track record of working within project management environments, planning and organising a variety of tasks, including involvement in multiple projects and programmes of work
• Experience communicating complex, confidential and often sensitive information with a range of staff across the organisation and with

Desirable Experience

• Working knowledge of agile methodologies
• Experience in one or all of the following: Axure, Figma,
• usability testing tools, HTML and CSS
• Experience of delivering presentations to large audiences on a local and/or national basis to enhance engagement and collaboration
• Experience of working within a Health, Social Care or educational environment
• Experience of working flexibly in complex/sensitive environments where the parameters of the job are not necessarily clearly defined
• Expertise in accessing, analysing and presenting a wide range of complex information to a range of audiences
• Knowledge of the Digital Scotland Design System
• Usage of analytics to track and improve the user experience
• Experience of designing for public-facing/consumer products
• Expertise in accessibility and inclusion
• Design sprint methodology
• Sound understanding of the application of GDPR to the storage and use of personal information and data privacy
• Knowledge and understanding of the wider combined health and social care system (including the third and independent sector) along with a sound grasp of the Scottish policy context/sector