Interaction Designer / User Experience

As an Interaction Designer / User experience your main responsibilities would be: 

● Work as part of multidisciplinary agile teams, delivering new services that meet user needs and Cabinet Office policy objectives ● Analyse and interpret user needs and business objectives in highly complex service areas ● Lead on design concepts that help reimagine how services can be delivered end-to-end and identify potential areas of improvement ● Work with user researchers, business analysts and developers to turn concepts into user-centred services ● Support design workshops and design sprints with the team, senior stakeholders and users ● Create and rapidly iterate low and high-fidelity prototypes to test and communicate ideas with users ● Develop and maintain design standards and a pattern library, ensuring patterns and components are consistent, accessible, and easy to use across our digital products and services ● Work with the wider project team to ensure that services meet the digital service standard, participating in services assessments as necessary to provide interaction design evidence to support the relevant points ● Collaborate with designers across government to identify and design scalable, cross-government design patterns and standards

You’ll have relevant experience in:

● A strong grounding and experience in user-centred design, from concept to final delivery. ● Knowledge of what good end-to-end public services look like and how to design in an inclusive, accessible way. ● Experience of making decisions to meet user needs in the government context and understanding the importance of assisted digital. ● The ability to absorb large amounts of conflicting information and use it to produce simple designs, removing complexity from services and solving problems. ● Experience in creating static HTML and CSS prototypes as well as coding for different screen sizes, versioning and hosting a prototype. ● You approach prototyping as a team activity, actively soliciting prototypes and testing with others. You can establish design patterns and iterate them. You can use a variety of methods of prototyping and choose the most appropriate ones. ● Experience of working collaboratively in a dynamic agile environment with user researchers, content designers and business analysts to understand and meet user needs. ● The ability to identify and understand constraints and can communicate these and work within them. ● The ability to listen to the needs of technical and business stakeholders, and interpret them in a way that is clear for both audiences. Experience of managing stakeholder expectations, setting direction and navigating difficult discussions within the team or with diverse senior stakeholders.

Must have active SC Clearance