UX Designer

J & C Associates Ltd ,
Shipley, West Yorkshire
Salary: £400 - £450 per day

Overview

UX Designer - Public sector experience - Contract - Shipley We are IT Recruitment Specialists partnered with a massive Global Consultancy who require a UX Designer for one of their Public sector Clients. This will be a 6-month contract based in Shipley. Tasks: - Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to deliver highly user focused and successful digital services - Produce design concepts for digital services, often working to very tight deadlines, and work with front end developers to implement those concepts - Design and create communication material ensuring all elements are well designed, consistent and user focused - Assisting the Team Leader in examining packages of work and giving realistic timescales for completion - Partner with colleagues to facilitate a consistent user experience, including by designing reusable elements of a digital service; - Build relationships and work effectively within an agile delivery model with colleagues and external providers, for example user researchers and business analysts - Deliver high quality finished digital service designs that meet web standards and GDS/GOV.UK design principles, ensuring that elements such as accessibility are built into designs from the outset - Proactively seek new learning opportunities and look to continually improve by gaining feedback from your peers and the business - Communicate credibly with a wide range of digital delivery disciplines and talent both internally and externally Technical Skills: - Practical experience in 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, rapid prototyping - Responsive web interactions design for mobile devices - Experience in 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. Business Skills: - Delivering at Pace - Leading and Communicating - Seeing the Bigger Picture - Good written and verbal communication skills, Problem solving and creativity skills, Honesty and Integrity, Eagerness to learn, Drive and energy, Professional appearance UX Designer - Public sector experience - Contract - Shipley