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UX Designer

Sword Group 🇬🇧 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Full-time

The UX Designer will embed user-centered design principles across complex energy and infrastructure programs, leading the end-to-end UX process from discovery through prototyping and validation. This involves conducting user research, creating artifacts like personas and journey maps, and translating insights into actionable design decisions.

Responsibilities

  • Conduct user research including interviews, workshops, observation and usability testing
  • Create user personas, journey maps and service blueprints to reflect behaviours and pain points
  • Translate research findings into clear, actionable insights that shape delivery direction
  • Plan and facilitate design sprints, iterative prototyping and validation activities
  • Analyse usability results and feed improvements back into live programmes

Requirements

  • Proven experience as a UX Designer in complex organisational settings
  • Strong understanding of UX methodologies across discovery, research and validation
  • Experience running workshops, design sprints and usability testing
  • Ability to produce high-quality UX artefacts such as personas, journey maps and service blueprints
  • Proficiency in prototyping tools (e.g. Figma, Axure, Adobe XD or equivalent)
  • Knowledge of accessibility standards and usability principles
  • Excellent facilitation and stakeholder engagement skills

Benefits

  • Competitive Salary
  • Personalised Career Development
  • Flexible working
  • Fantastic Benefits Package
  • Generous annual leave allowance
  • Enhanced family friendly benefits
  • Pension scheme
  • Access to private health, well-being, and insurance schemes

Key Skills

UX design User research User testing Wireframing Prototyping User journey mapping Service design Accessibility standards Usability principles Figma Axure Adobe XD Communication Facilitation Stakeholder engagement Design thinking User advocacy

About Sword Group

Sword is a leader in data insights, digital transformation and technology services with a substantial reputation in complex IT, business projects and mission critical operations with over 3,000 Technology, Digital specialists working in more than 50 countries to enable the growth of your organisation in the digital age.

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