User Experience Designer - Leeds, United Kingdom - Stealth iT Recruitment

Description

My client are a large global digital transformation consulting firm, are seeking a User Experience Designers (UX) to work on exciting digital transformation projects, across the UK, within the public sector.

Role Responsibilities

• Use different techniques to identify and understand users and their needs, so that you can translate user stories and propose user-focused, evidence-based design approaches to meet these needs.
• Design accessible and impactful products and services for public and private sector clients.
• Employ a wide range of skills, interviewing users, creating detailed plans, understanding and extrapolating data, facilitating workshops, presenting research findings and more
• Visualise, articulate and solve complex problems and concepts, and make disciplined decisions based on available information and research evidence.
• Apply technical knowledge and experience to create or design interactive prototypes, both products and services.
• Understand and resolve design-centric disputes across varying levels of complexity and risk.
• Lead and guide teams, setting the pace, ensuring teams are delivering.
• You can work in a fast-paced, evolving environment and use an iterative method and flexible approach to enable rapid Agile delivery.
• Communicate effectively across organisational and technical boundaries, understanding the context and making complex and technical information simple and accessible for non-technical audiences.

Role Requirements

• Grounding in user-centred design, from concept to final delivery. Knowledge of which tools, process or methods to use and how to bring an agile delivery team along with you.
• Evidence of Working with User Centred Design colleagues to synthesize insights and act on the outcomes.
• You will either already have SC (Security Check) Clearance or you are able to qualify for this level of clearance (by being a UK resident for at least 3 years and not having left the country for more than 6 consecutive months during this period)
• Experience working with Government Digital Service (GDS) service standards, using GDS design principles and GDS prototyping toolkit
• Experience using a range of design tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, Invision Studio, Axure etc.
• An empathetic approach and ability to listen to the needs of technical and business stakeholders, and interpret them in a way that is clear for both audiences.
• Ability to present designs and justify decisions you've made using an evidence-based approach.
• Proven ability to create high-quality, compelling design concepts and artefacts such as personas, service maps and wireframes.
• Understanding of what good digital services look like and how to design in an inclusive, accessible way.
• Experienced in rapid paper and digital prototyping.
• Ability to build prototypes using code to create dynamic prototypes using HTML, CSS and Javascript.

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