Senior Interaction Designer
Job title
Senior Interaction Designer
Job description
Ref : PS13520 / PSR1JP00050556
Client : PSR/DWP UC
Location : London/Manchester – min 2 days in office per week
Pay rate : £550pd Inside IR35
Duration : 12 months
Position : Senior Interaction Designer
PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL CANDIDATES MUST PROVIDE A PORTFOLIO OF THEIR WORK DESCRIBING THEIR ROLE, THE IMPACT AND OUTCOMES WITHIN EACH PROJECT. PROFILES WITHOUT A PORTFOLIO OF WORK WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED. THIS CAN BE EITHER A PUBLISHED WEBSITE OR AN ATTACHED DOCUMENT
As a Senior Interaction Designer, you will:
• Specialise in designing interactions and interfaces for digital services.
• Define elements – layout, design patterns, controls and actions.
• Work with different types of content and user-led interactions.
• Work across digital and non-digital channels.
• Be familiar with the technical side of design.
Essential Skills
• Have demonstrable experience of working from a digital perspective and experience of sketching, prototyping and iterative design.
• Have demonstrable experience of working in a multi disciplinary team.
• Have demonstrable experience of using a user-centred design approach and of explaining design decisions and communicating ideas in a way that other people understand.
• Be able to lead a workshop and help the design process work effectively, plan user research, interpret research and data.
• Have demonstrable experience of handling constructive criticism of your work and constructively reviewing other people’s work.
• Have demonstrable experience of putting forward the case for design to senior stakeholders and product owners and working at pace in an agile environment.
• Have demonstrable experience of working in technical teams in complex environments.
• Have a design-related degree or experience on a product, interaction or UX design role.
Desirable
• Have experience of working directly with front-end code to update prototypes – skills in HTML, CSS and java script aren’t essential, but all our designers learn the basics.
• Be able to write for user interfaces.
Security Clearance: BPSS basic but able to obtain SC