UX/UI Designer

Sparx Ltd ,
Exeter, Devon
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Location: Flexible (with regular travel required to Exeter) Term: Full time, Permanent Salary: Competitive, dependent on experience plus generous company benefits Closing Date: Sunday 21st June 2020 About the Role This is an exciting opportunity for a UI/UX Designer with passion and creativity to become an essential part of our team. This role is responsible for understanding our users and products, as well as business and technical requirements, and helping to translate this understanding into visually appealing, engaging and highly usable web experiences. The role will report into our Senior UI/UX Designer. You'll work closely with our Senior UI/UX Designer and key stakeholders, including both Product and Scrum teams, to create and implement user journeys, UI elements and designs that respond well across a wide range of web and mobile devices. Key Responsibilities: * Delivering high quality UX/UI design as a part of a multidisciplinary team * Designing, planning and conducting user research sessions with a range of audiences to help understand user needs, behaviour and motivations * Translating high-level requirements into interfaces with intuitive and functional navigation and architecture * Checking assumptions and validating designs through usability testing and rapidly iterating based upon feedback * Working collaboratively with Engineers to deliver refined aesthetics and microinteractions * Integrating UX into Agile development practices whilst working on parallel projects, handling multiple design deliverables and working with various teams across the company (Product, Engineering, Content, Marketing) * Undertaking any other activities required to support the development our products and the achievements of Sparx's overall goals About Sparx In these challenging times, education is going through a transformation. Sparx is at the forefront of that change, as a socially focused learning technology company. We are reimagining the way maths is taught and learnt. We're using a scientific and research based approach that takes the guesswork out of education. Through data and real world observation, we're investigating what makes the best learning experience in order to improve educational outcomes for students, today and tomorrow. Our platform for Maths uses custom-built content and a powerful, data-driven web and mobile framework to deliver a tailored set of exercises, games and incentives that are redefining the limits of what young people can achieve. We're looking for people with a real passion for education and a belief in the power of technology to improve it. People who want a challenge; people who want to make a difference. About the Sparx Team We're about living life, not putting it on hold. Our generous benefits include substantial holiday leave and the chance to join our company pension. When we are working from our Exeter office, we have a range of on-site facilities including a netball court, a five-a-side football pitch, a pool table, an Olympic table tennis table, as well as an on-site gym. Our cafe serves delicious, local, and organic food. Did we mention it's all free? On top of this you'll have great views from your office window of the foothills of Dartmoor and boats out at sea on the horizon - with the beach just 20 minutes away. Plus, we're constantly organising events and activities to support our charities, and to socialise. Our work is serious but we're all about having fun while we do it! To find out more, please visit our website at www.sparx.co.uk. About you We are looking for someone creative, with excellent problem-solving skills who can help make Sparx products as usable, engaging and enjoyable as possible. You're proactive, collaborative and enthusiastic with the ability to focus on the detail, without losing sight of the bigger picture. You'll thrive under pressure, share our passion for improving education and be used to fast paced environments where deadlines are tight. In addition, you can adapt in the face of changing priorities and a fluctuating workload, whilst always retaining attention to detail and accuracy. You're a great team member who can work effectively across the wider Sparx team empathetic to the needs of your colleagues and customers. You bring an innovative approach to your work, thrive on challenges and constantly look for ways to improve our products and processes. In terms of specifics, the list below gives an overview of some of the skills and experiences we're looking for: Essential * A strong portfolio demonstrating excellent UX/UI design skills * Experience creating wireframes, storyboards, prototypes and user flows to communicate and test design concepts * Commercial experience with user interface and interaction design and standard UCD methodologies. * Experience designing, conducting and analysing user research to determine user needs, wants and expectations * Experience incorporating findings from user research into solutions, with a focus on me

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