Senior interaction designer
- Grade
- G7
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You will
- lead on the design and prototyping of user interfaces that align with user needs and business requirements
- collaborate with UCD professionals, including researchers, service designers, and content designers, to turn insights into functional and engaging designs
- use data and evidence to refine and improve designs, making informed decisions based on testing and user feedback
- advocate for user needs throughout the design process, ensuring solutions are accessible, inclusive, and solve complete user problems
- communicate design solutions effectively to stakeholders, contributing to the overall vision for the service
- coach and mentor junior designers, facilitate design crits, and ensure services are meeting design standards as a service assessor
Skills you need
It is essential that you can demonstrate the following experience in your application and at the interview:
- expertise in designing and testing complex user interfaces, using advanced prototyping techniques to validate and refine designs
- skilled in using data, research, and testing feedback to drive informed, user-centred design decisions
- strong communicator with the ability to manage and influence senior stakeholders, encourage collaboration, and facilitate alignment across teams
- expert knowledge in accessible and inclusive design principles, ensuring products are usable for all users
- experienced in agile working practices, adapting to iterative feedback and prioritising tasks based on user and business needs
- be familiar with using, and contributing to, design systems and have experience designing government or similar products
It is desirable if you can demonstrate the following:
- be able to prototype in code using HTML, CSS and JavaScript
- strong analytical skills to identify and address issues within service designs, improving reliability and usability
- ability to evaluate and measure design impact against organisational KPIs and objectives