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Job summary In this role you will lead the user research community in the HRA's journey to develop its digital services. The Digital Directorate is modernising and transforming the business, ensuring the user is at the heart of everything; including the delivery of business solutions using agile methods in a continuous delivery environment. You will be … information, you will transform this to ensure it is understandable for others to work with. Engaging with stakeholders, you will facilitate collaborative approaches to prioritise requirements and deliver key user insights to constantly improve the design of services; demonstrating a proactive approach to alignment with Government service standards, so that optimum outputs and solutions are delivered to meet user needs, organisational objectives and policy intent. Main duties of the job The post holder will: Develop and assure good user research practices. Identify, capture and implement user needs. Implement service strategy with sound research to enable excellent service design. Provide guidance across projects on user research methodologies and GDS standards. Represent user More ❯

Job summary In this role you will lead the user research community in the HRA's journey to develop its digital services. The Digital Directorate is modernising and transforming the business, ensuring the user is at the heart of everything; including the delivery of business solutions using agile methods in a continuous delivery environment. You will be … information, you will transform this to ensure it is understandable for others to work with. Engaging with stakeholders, you will facilitate collaborative approaches to prioritise requirements and deliver key user insights to constantly improve the design of services; demonstrating a proactive approach to alignment with Government service standards, so that optimum outputs and solutions are delivered to meet user needs, organisational objectives and policy intent. Main duties of the job The post holder will: Develop and assure good user research practices. Identify, capture and implement user needs. Implement service strategy with sound research to enable excellent service design. Provide guidance across projects on user research methodologies and GDS standards. Represent user More ❯

User Research Lead - Digital Products & Customer Experience (12-month FTC) Location: Hybrid (Manchester, 3 days onsite) Salary: £65,000 - £75,000 + Excellent Benefits Package Are you passionate about delivering customer-first digital experiences through insight-driven research? We're looking for a User Research Lead to head up research efforts across a range … of online products and services, ensuring user needs are at the heart of every design decision. This is a fantastic 12-month fixed-term opportunity to join a well-established, digitally focused organisation where customer experience and accessibility are front and centre. You'll help shape product strategy, mentor researchers, and embed user-centred thinking across teams. The … Role: Lead and mentor a small team of user researchers, encouraging collaboration, continuous learning, and research excellence. Drive user research strategies that uncover actionable insights and influence product, design, and business decisions. Ensure consistency in research approaches and findings across multiple digital products and services. Champion inclusive design by embedding accessibility research and working More ❯

User Research Lead - Digital Products & Customer Experience (12-month FTC) Location: Hybrid (Manchester, 3 days onsite) Salary: £65,000 - £75,000 + Excellent Benefits Package Are you passionate about delivering customer-first digital experiences through insight-driven research? We're looking for a User Research Lead to head up research efforts across a range … of online products and services, ensuring user needs are at the heart of every design decision. This is a fantastic 12-month fixed-term opportunity to join a well-established, digitally focused organisation where customer experience and accessibility are front and centre. You'll help shape product strategy, mentor researchers, and embed user-centred thinking across teams. The … Role: Lead and mentor a small team of user researchers, encouraging collaboration, continuous learning, and research excellence. Drive user research strategies that uncover actionable insights and influence product, design, and business decisions. Ensure consistency in research approaches and findings across multiple digital products and services. Champion inclusive design by embedding accessibility research and working More ❯

User Research Lead - Digital Products & Customer Experience Location: Hybrid (Manchester, 3 days onsite) Contract: Fixed-Term (12 Months) Salary: £65,000 - £75,000 + Excellent Benefits Package Are you passionate about delivering customer-first digital experiences through insight-driven research? We're looking for a User Research Lead to head up research efforts across … a range of online products and services, ensuring user needs are at the heart of every design decision. This is a fantastic 12-month fixed-term opportunity to join a well-established, digitally focused organisation where customer experience and accessibility are front and centre. You'll help shape product strategy, mentor researchers, and embed user-centred thinking across … teams. The Role As User Research Lead, you will: Lead and mentor a small team of user researchers, encouraging collaboration, continuous learning, and research excellence. Drive user research strategies that uncover actionable insights and influence product, design, and business decisions. Ensure consistency in research approaches and findings across multiple digital products and services. More ❯

User Research Lead - Digital Products & Customer Experience Location: Hybrid (Manchester, 3 days onsite) Contract: Fixed-Term (12 Months) Salary: £65,000 - £75,000 + Excellent Benefits Package Are you passionate about delivering customer-first digital experiences through insight-driven research? We're looking for a User Research Lead to head up research efforts across … a range of online products and services, ensuring user needs are at the heart of every design decision. This is a fantastic 12-month fixed-term opportunity to join a well-established, digitally focused organisation where customer experience and accessibility are front and centre. You'll help shape product strategy, mentor researchers, and embed user-centred thinking across … teams. The Role As User Research Lead, you will: Lead and mentor a small team of user researchers, encouraging collaboration, continuous learning, and research excellence. Drive user research strategies that uncover actionable insights and influence product, design, and business decisions. Ensure consistency in research approaches and findings across multiple digital products and services. More ❯

Join us as our Senior User Researcher at Peregrine Resourcing. At Peregrine, were always seeking Specialist Talent that have the ideal mix of skills, experience, and attitude, to place with our vast array of clients. From Business Analysts in large government organisations to Software Developers in the private sector we are always in search of the best talent to … deployed across our portfolio of clients as a specialist consultant, working on a wide array of complex projects across multiple industries. The Role We are looking for a Senior User Researcher who has experienced practitioner who can plan and lead user research activities in larger teams and across programmes of work and more complex services. Responsibilities: design … and carry out research activities with users that help teams get a deep understanding of the people that use government services Authority will undertake any necessary CEST assessment and where appropriate issue a Status Determination Statement deliver user research in complex subject areas, and supervise and develop other user researchers to assure and improve research More ❯

needs Job Description At this level, you will be expected to: Have experience working to the GDS designprincipals or equivalent standards in the UK Public sector or DSSS Build user-centred practices in new teams Align user research activities with wider plans to inform a service proposition Carry out user research and supervise and develop … other user researchers to assure and improve research practice Inclusive research. You can help teams understand the diversity of users. You can advocate for inclusive practices and help teams design and deliver accessible services that work for all users. Research skills. You have experience of, and can help teams adopt, a wide range of primary and secondary … user research methods. Analysis and synthesis. You understand and can help teams apply a range of methods to analyse research data and synthesise findings. You know how to engage sceptical colleagues in analysis and synthesis. You can advise on choice and application of techniques, and can critique colleagues findings to assure best practice. Presenting research findings. More ❯

s challenges of today and tomorrow. Informed and validated by science and data. Superpowered by creativity and design. All underpinned by technology created with purpose. YOUR ROLE As a User Researcher, you will be joining the growing and exciting Digital Factory community who are continually sharing knowledge and expertise. We are all passionate about user centred design, critical … digital services and products. You will champion inclusive design practices throughout our project lifecycles, ensuring solutions are accessible to as many users as possible. This includes engaging with diverse user research, applying accessibility guidelines and legislation, and advocating for inclusive design principles in your deliverables. Working at Capgemini Invent would give you opportunities to develop and grow, working … in a variety of locations including London, Manchester and Glasgow. We offer hybrid working, however depending on your project you may have to travel to client locations. As a User Researcher you will: Work closely with Product Managers, Designers, developers, and other User Researchers to plan and conduct high-impact research that helps develop a better understanding More ❯

s challenges of today and tomorrow. Informed and validated by science and data. Superpowered by creativity and design. All underpinned by technology created with purpose. YOUR ROLE As a User Researcher, you will be joining the growing and exciting Digital Factory community who are continually sharing knowledge and expertise. We are all passionate about user centred design, critical … digital services and products. You will champion inclusive design practices throughout our project lifecycles, ensuring solutions are accessible to as many users as possible. This includes engaging with diverse user research, applying accessibility guidelines and legislation, and advocating for inclusive design principles in your deliverables. Working at Capgemini Invent would give you opportunities to develop and grow, working … in a variety of locations including London, Manchester and Glasgow. We offer hybrid working, however depending on your project you may have to travel to client locations. As a User Researcher you will: Work closely with Product Managers, Designers, developers, and other User Researchers to plan and conduct high-impact research that helps develop a better understanding More ❯

Role description The User Researcher will work within the agile scrum team to define, plan and conduct user research with the goal of building team empathy needed to create positive outcomes and experiences for users - both internal users and external users. They will take a lead on scoping, planning, conducting and analysing the research by creating … research plans, protocols and activities using qualitative quantitative or mixed-method approaches. They will analyse and synthesise research findings to translate insights into user needs and opportunities, communicating compelling user insights to the product owner, team and wider stakeholders. They will contribute research findings to enable evidence-based product and design decisions and will champion … the user to ensure that the product delivers Essential skills and experience Experience of planning scoping conducting, analysing and communicating user research throughout the Agile product development lifecycle. Experience of qualitative user research methods including usability testing ethnographic observation interviews surveys contextual inquiry and focus groups. Experience of working within ann Agile scrum team, working More ❯

by technology. We are building a community of designers and researchers to support the growing demand for a design-led approach to service delivery in the public sector. Senior User Researchers are experienced practitioners confident in collaborating with UCD colleagues and external professions such as Data & Tech teams. They work together to understand the challenges faced by users of … public services. They conduct user research employing qualitative and quantitative methodologies with real users, ensuring insights inform the end-to-end design of public services. Key responsibilities Act as the research subject matter expert within a multidisciplinary team, facilitating the research process and communicating findings to team members and stakeholders. Define the focus of research to ensure shared understanding of success criteria. Select appropriate research methods to design effective research projects. Work independently as a researcher within a multidisciplinary team on client projects. Advocate for user research within projects and with stakeholders. Plan research to inform the design of accessible, usable, and effective public services. Apply methods to analyze More ❯

by technology. We are building a community of designers and researchers to support the growing demand for a design-led approach to service delivery in the public sector. Senior User Researchers are experienced practitioners confident in collaborating with UCD colleagues and external professions such as Data & Tech teams. They work together to understand the challenges faced by users of … public services. They conduct user research employing qualitative and quantitative methodologies with real users, ensuring insights inform the end-to-end design of public services. Key responsibilities Act as the research subject matter expert within a multidisciplinary team, facilitating the research process and communicating findings to team members and stakeholders. Define the focus of research to ensure shared understanding of success criteria. Select appropriate research methods to design effective research projects. Work independently as a researcher within a multidisciplinary team on client projects. Advocate for user research within projects and with stakeholders. Plan research to inform the design of accessible, usable, and effective public services. Apply methods to analyze More ❯

solutions. What are they looking for? · Minimum of 3 year in a similar role or a degree in a related field (e.g., Design, Psychology, Sociology) with an understanding of user-centered design (UCD) principles. · Understanding of Qualitative & Quantitative Research: Foundational knowledge of both qualitative and quantitative research methods and when each should be used. · Attention to detail … You excel at preparing and reviewing research materials and data with accuracy, ensuring the quality of insights delivered. · Passionate and Curious: You have a genuine interest in UX research and a strong desire to learn and grow within the field. · Adaptable: You're flexible and open to feedback, able to adjust to new challenges and tasks. · Collaborative: You … enjoy working in a team, learning from others, and contributing to group success. Technical Skills Essential: · User Research Basics: Familiarity with user research techniques, including interviews, surveys, and usability testing, to understand user needs and behaviors. · Data Analysis: Basic knowledge of reviewing and interpreting qualitative and quantitative research data. · Communication: Strong communication skills, with More ❯

solutions. What are they looking for? · Minimum of 3 year in a similar role or a degree in a related field (e.g., Design, Psychology, Sociology) with an understanding of user-centered design (UCD) principles. · Understanding of Qualitative & Quantitative Research: Foundational knowledge of both qualitative and quantitative research methods and when each should be used. · Attention to detail … You excel at preparing and reviewing research materials and data with accuracy, ensuring the quality of insights delivered. · Passionate and Curious: You have a genuine interest in UX research and a strong desire to learn and grow within the field. · Adaptable: You're flexible and open to feedback, able to adjust to new challenges and tasks. · Collaborative: You … enjoy working in a team, learning from others, and contributing to group success. Technical Skills Essential: · User Research Basics: Familiarity with user research techniques, including interviews, surveys, and usability testing, to understand user needs and behaviors. · Data Analysis: Basic knowledge of reviewing and interpreting qualitative and quantitative research data. · Communication: Strong communication skills, with More ❯

of complex projects across multiple industries. The Role We are looking for a Content Designer who has experience building positive working relationships across teams and professions to advocate for user need and understand and influence stakeholder. Responsibilities: Lead on the creation of content across digital and non-digital channels that meets user needs and business objectives. Understanding user needs and designing content around user needs developing or implementing content strategy focused on improving user experience within the context of business needs Establish and maintain the highest standards of accuracy, accessibility, and professionalism even if deadlines are tight and information elusive Use evidence, data, and user research to devise content strategies and tactics, and … work closely with digital and data specialists to improve user outcomes Create, iterate, review and update content for new and existing services to meet user needs across a whole end-to-end journey Skills & Experience: ?Creating content designed to meet user needs and make complex language and processes easy to understand, always in the right format for More ❯

UK Estate Agencies through world-class technology. Street.co.uk is our game-changing CRM: a truly modern estate agency platform, creating a next-level digital experience for customers, putting transparency, user experience and beautiful design at the heart of our industry. As a Senior UX Designer in our Lettings team, you'll be responsible for designing and enhancing workflows to … improve the user experience for our clients. You will engage with a diverse array of feature requests, spanning activities from product discovery and research to wireframing, high-fidelity prototyping, and ultimately presenting your designs. You'll have the opportunity to spend as much time as you want and need with our users, understanding their needs, challenges, and work … to the product direction of Lettings. You'll engage in workshops, seek feedback, and play a pivotal role in end-to-end product design, ensuring consistency and upholding a user-centric, clean, and modern design ethos. Joining the Lettings team, you'll be immersing yourself in a highly collaborative environment where the impact of your work is visible. Innovation More ❯

Required: User Researcher Location: Fully Remote Duration: 12 month initial contract IR35 Status: Inside The User Researcher will work within the agile scrum team to define, plan and conduct user research with the goal of building team empathy needed to create positive outcomes and experiences for users - both internal users and external users. They will take … a lead on scoping, planning, conducting and analysing the research by creating research plans, protocols and activities using qualitative quantitative or mixed-method approaches. They will analyse and synthesise research findings to translate insights into user needs and opportunities, communicating compelling user insights to the product owner, team and wider stakeholders. They will contribute research findings to enable evidence-based product and design decisions and will champion the user to ensure that the product delivers LA International is a HMG approved ICT Recruitment and Project Solutions Consultancy, operating globally from the largest single site in the UK as an IT Consultancy or as an Employment Business & Agency depending upon the precise nature of More ❯

them. Predominantly focused on the public-sector, Methods is now building a significant private sector client portfolio. Methods was acquired by the Alten Group in early 2022. Job Title: User experience designer (UX) Location: Hybrid (Remote with UK travel required) About Methods: Our mission is to improve and safeguard public services. We apply digital tools and ways of working … alongside your client work. We are growing our teams across the company and would love to talk to you about becoming a part of Methods. Role overview: As a User experience designer, you will play a pivotal role in creating user-centred designs that resonate with our audience and align with government standards. Your designs will advocate for … simplicity, accessibility, and effectiveness, grounded in evidence-based research and organisational objectives. Key responsibilities: Develop and implement design practices and standards consistent with government or client guidelines. Identifying, developing and using best practice and standards to design services consistent with the rest of government or our client organisations. Collaborating within a multidisciplinary team by sharing design work, and participating More ❯

them. Predominantly focused on the public-sector, Methods is now building a significant private sector client portfolio. Methods was acquired by the Alten Group in early 2022. Job Title: User experience designer (UX) Location: Hybrid (Remote with UK travel required) About Methods: Our mission is to improve and safeguard public services. We apply digital tools and ways of working … alongside your client work. We are growing our teams across the company and would love to talk to you about becoming a part of Methods. Role overview: As a User experience designer, you will play a pivotal role in creating user-centred designs that resonate with our audience and align with government standards. Your designs will advocate for … simplicity, accessibility, and effectiveness, grounded in evidence-based research and organisational objectives. Key responsibilities: Develop and implement design practices and standards consistent with government or client guidelines. Identifying, developing and using best practice and standards to design services consistent with the rest of government or our client organisations. Collaborating within a multidisciplinary team by sharing design work, and participating More ❯

can reach new heights. Together, we are CAVU Whats the role? As a UX Designer at CAVU, you'll be part of a fast-paced team focused on designing user-centric, seamless digital experiences across our platforms. You'll collaborate with product leads, analysts, and developers to turn insights into intuitive design solutions. You'll lead user research … solving, and an experimental mindset to everything you do. About You: As a UX Designer at CAVU, you'll be part of a fast-paced team focused on designing user-centric, seamless digital experiences across our platforms. You'll collaborate with product leads, analysts, and developers to turn insights into intuitive design solutions. You'll lead user research … sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Did you know that some people may be less likely to apply to job adverts than others? For example, research shows women are less likely to apply if they don't meet every single requirement listed in the advert. So, if you're reading this and perhaps don't More ❯

you will deliver high profile digital products and services for some of the UKs largest companies and Public Sector organisations. You will work with market leading technologies and span user, technical and business operations to build solutions that meet user needs, deliver business impact and benefit society. As part of the growing Netcompany Product and User Centred … developing Netcompanys Centres of Excellence and service offerings, support business development and client engagement. Key Responsibilities: Experience working to GDS or equivalent standards in the UK Public sector Understanding user and business needs including supporting and participating in user research Creating content and developing content strategies to help digital services meet user needs and business objectives … and create a clear, joined-up customer journey Monitoring and improving content based on user feedback, research and data Working effectively with subject matter experts, stakeholders and partners to deliver clear, relevant content Ensuring all content assets are user-focused, accurate, optimised appropriately (e.g. for search), and meet relevant design, style and brand guidelines Working with a More ❯

build strong relationships with stakeholders, including policy, marketing, communications and legal, influencing and collaborating with them to improve the structure and quality of the content Create, improve and manage user centred content that meets user needs Use data analytics, user research and usability testing to identify user needs. Map journeys and user stories to … for them Advocate the role of content designers and the value content design can bring, and embed content design practices into ways of working Skills & Experience: Creating high quality, user-centred content Using data and feedback to inform design decisions and improving content Building strong stakeholder relationships Creating content strategies that are user focussed Leading others through constructive … feedback to improve content design Collaborating with user researchers, business analysts and interaction designers to define evidence-based content design strategies Collaborating on prototypes using a variety of methods prototyping and choosing the most appropriate ones for the circumstance. About us: At Peregrine, we see beyond the immediate and look to the horizon. We build lasting, meaningful partnerships with More ❯

further move, to the new Government Hub at Talbot Gateway in Blackpool, is scheduled to take place in 2027. A software developer designs, runs and improves software that meets user needs. In this role, you will: Be responsible for writing clean, secure code following a test-driven approach Create code that is open by default and easy for others … You will test and document code releases and support the team at GDS Service Assessments. As a Senior Software Developer, you will: Technical Designs, codes, tests, corrects, and documents user interfaces using the right standards and tools. Work with Typescript, Node.JS, Kubernetes (KubeMQ), Next JS, React, and Event-Driven Architecture Supports implementation of new systems or upgrades for Automation … Level: Practitioner) System integration: You can define the integration build, co-ordinate build activities across systems, and understand how to undertake and support integration testing activities (Skill Level: Practitioner) User focus: You can collaborate with user researchers and can represent users internally; explain the difference between user needs and the desires of the user; champion user More ❯

Job summary 1. The service and interaction design lead is a key part of the user centred design team within the digital directorate, an expert practitioner responsible for providing professional leadership to ensure the most appropriate service design and interaction design decisions are taken for service users. In this role, you will be responsible for: 2. leading our design … community, demonstrating a range of leadership and management skills, guidance and supportive approaches for the activities required in the HRA's journey to develop its digital services for the research community 3. working with the Head of User Centred Design and the product team undertake strategic planning through service design responsible for ensuring the team takes a user … evidence based approach to service design and delivery 4. considering the impact of new technologies and ensuring that designs meet legal requirements and government guidelines 5. blue-printing, prototyping, user journey flows and story boarding 6. Communicating the importance of inclusive, equitable, accessible and sustainable public services. The role sits within the HRA digital directorate which is responsible for More ❯