Digital: UX Designer - User Experience Designer - UX/UI Designer - Contract (contract)

Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, UK

Salary: £ market rate

posted on 01.12.16

UX Designer - Agile - Largest Digital Project in the UK - Public sector - UX Designer

UX Designer - User Experience Designer - UX/UI Designer

Would you be interested in working for one of the most advanced digital Agile practices in the UK? You may be surprised to know that the project is in the public sector!

As a UX Designer, you will be joining an Agile team within a major central government organisation. If you feel you can contribute to this and would like to bring about real change, then please read on and apply. Alternatively, please do call me to discuss the opportunity.

Your Responsibilities:

• You will work within agile delivery teams to produce and implement high-quality design concepts for digital services
• You will also work with user researchers to ensure all output, internal and external, is well designed and user focused
• Additionally, design and deliver consistent, user focused communication material and partner with colleagues to ensure a consistent user experience across services, including designing reusable elements of a digital service
• Building relationships and working effectively within an agile delivery model with colleagues and external providers, for example user researchers and business analysts will also be key
• You will also be adept at delivering high quality UX and digital service designs that meet web standards and GDS/GOV.UK UX design principles, ensuring that ensure that compliance with accessibility standards is built into designs from the outset.
• Communication is also key as you will deal with a wide range of UX and digital delivery disciplines internally and externally.
• And finally, participate in the wider UX Design community (outside of the government), building relationships with other UX designers, identifying learning opportunities and best UX practices we can adopt.

Skills and Experience:

• Proven experience of designing interfaces and transaction flows for the web
• Ability to prototype for the web & design in browser
• A good basic 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 and rapid prototyping
• Experience of responsive web interactions design for mobile devices
• Experience of researching design with users
• 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

Please get in touch - interviews will be very quick and the contracts will roll!

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