Senior interaction designer

Grade
G7
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You will

  • have extensive understanding of interaction and user interface design
  • have industry or government experience in designing elegant, accessible, responsive user interfaces
  • be confident in designing at low and high fidelity, for different screen sizes
  • have a broad range of experience prototyping interactions
  • have an ability to talk about, and advocate for, user-centered design in a way that other people understand
  • understand the importance of working with research and business analysis to inform design decisions
  • have the ability to lead the design direction and advocate for user centered design in communities of practice
  • have experience of working collaboratively in a dynamic agile environment and using agile tools
  • have experience in removing complexity from services and solving problems
  • can identify and understand constraints and can communicate these and work within them
  • are able to manage stakeholder expectations and facilitate difficult discussions with a wide range of stakeholders

You’ll have

Essential

  • be able to prototype using appropriate tools
  • understand accessibility and inclusive design guidelines and practices
  • planning and facilitating workshops
  • training and developing more junior designers
  • evidence and context based design
  • leading the design experience
  • working within constraints

Desirable

  • prototyping using HTML and CSS
  • you'll have experience of using the GOV.UK prototype kit
  • experience of using node.js and JavaScript