UX Designer - 12 Month FTC

The role involves skillfully crafting the end-to-end user experience, creating cohesive journeys step by step, and creatively using components from a central design system to balance content and UI elements. Responsibilities also include bringing designs to life via prototyping software and balancing business requirements with user needs gathered from research.

Responsibilities

• Skillfully craft the end-to-end user experience, bringing together a cohesive journey step by step, creatively using components from a central design system to figure out the right balance of content and UI (User Interface) elements on screen
• Bring designs to life with a choice of prototyping software, such as Sketch / InVision / Figma / Axure / Adobe XD
• Balance business requirements with user needs – you'll be gathering user research and rationale to align stakeholders on individual user needs
• Be adaptable to the technical constraints of different platforms yet still be able to give guidance on creating the best possible end user experience
• Advocate customer inclusion – what it means to make an inclusive and accessible design to be used by customers of a wide range of ages, backgrounds and technical abilities

Requirements

• Demonstrable experience within User Experience design
• Strong experience as a UX and visual designer (or possibly from an interactive design background)
• Full ownership of the Interaction Design project
• Excellent prototyping and layout skills which they can articulate clearly to internal customers and development teams
• Comfortable using existing design systems, proactively recommending new ways to improve and extend them to benefit both the project and other designers
• Ability to interpret quantitative and qualitative research, and how this informs the interaction design process

Benefits

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

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