Beschreibung
As a Senior Interaction Designer the candidate will be part of a multidisciplinary team - to work alongside other Designers, Front End Developers, Researchers and Software Engineers.They will be expected to deliver world-class services designed for the people who use them, in line with the government's Digital Service Standard .
Interaction Designers design accessible public services simple enough for everyone to use. They create digital services that work across different channels, devices, browsers and platforms.
This role may involve the creation of or change to design patterns which are being researched in services. This role is about seeing the bigger picture as well as the fine detail. It's about being able to create just enough of a prototype to help the wider team learn about user needs for a given scenario.
As a Senior Interaction Designer, key deliverables:
- specialise in designing interactions and interfaces for digital services
- work on all levels of the service, from high-level flows and journeys to the fine detail of individual parts
- work with different types of content and user-led interactions
- work across digital and non-digital channels
- focus on making working software, rather than creating artefacts to describe software
- understand the technical side of design
Responsibilities
As a Senior Interaction Designer, It is expected that the candidate will:
- understand user needs and design services that meet them
- help promote best practice
- share specialist knowledge and experience with others in the team
- support discussions at a senior departmental level
- share work and ideas inside and outside the department, for example by representing the design community at events
- design user-centred interfaces and transaction flows
- define elements - layout, design patterns, controls and actions
- define visual priorities - what needs to be obvious, what needs to be easy, and what needs to be made possible
- create and rapidly iterate prototypes to help the wider team learn about user needs for different scenarios or tasks
- work with product owners, other designers, user researchers, business analysts, and front-end developers to turn concepts into user-centred services
- make sure that the design of services is consistent internally and with the rest of GOV.UK
- contribute to designing interaction patterns and standards, looking for common features across services
- contribute to cross-government interaction design patterns
- take responsibility for creating and keeping up a positive and collaborative working environment
- contribute to building a digital culture in the department
- play an active part in the department's product design community
Skills and experience required
- have demonstrable experience of working from a digital perspective
- have demonstrable experience of sketching, prototyping and iterative design
- have demonstrable experience of working in a multidisciplinary team
- have demonstrable experience of using a user-centred design approach
- have demonstrable experience of explaining design decisions and
- communicating ideas in a way that other people understand
- be able to lead a workshop
- be able to help the design process work effectively
- know how to plan user research
- have demonstrable experience of interpreting research and data
- have demonstrable experience of handling constructive criticism of your work
- have demonstrable experience of constructively reviewing other people's work
- have demonstrable experience of putting forward the case for design to senior stakeholders and product owners
- have demonstrable experience of at pace in an agile environment
- have demonstrable experience of collaborating on designs with a software Engineer
- have demonstrable experience of working in technical teams in complex environments
- have a design-related degree or design background which will be evident on your career and body of work.
Ideally, the candidate should also:
- Be able to manage other people's work, including planning work and checking it to make sure it's consistent and appropriate across products and services
- Have experience of working directly with front-end code to update prototypes - skills in HTML, CSS, and javascript aren't essential, but all our designers learn the basics
- Be able to write for user interfaces
Michael Bailey International is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.