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Lead Product Designer (UX/UI) - Gamification & Puzzles (5m FTC)
Dc Thomson 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead UX and UI design for modern, mobile-first digital puzzle experiences, creating intuitive user journeys and applying gamification and behavioural design to encourage engagement and repeat play. Conduct research, develop prototypes and scalable design systems, champion accessibility, and collaborate with product, engineering, commercial, and other stakeholders through delivery.
Responsibilities
- Lead UX and UI design for modern, mobile-first digital puzzle experiences, creating intuitive user journeys and applying gamification and behavioural design to encourage engagement and repeat play. Conduct research, develop prototypes and scalable design systems, champion accessibility, and collaborate with product, engineering, commercial, and other stakeholders through delivery.
Requirements
- Candidates need experience designing UX/UI for digital puzzles, mobile games, gaming products, or highly gamified consumer experiences, including engagement mechanics and scalable design systems. They should demonstrate user-centred product design in a portfolio, collaborate effectively with developers, and bring expertise in UX methods, gamification, accessibility, Figma, and communicating design decisions.
Key Skills
About Dc Thomson
DC Thomson is a family-owned business headquartered in Scotland, with a presence in London and across the globe. A 200-year-old company that is purpose led and future focused. And our purpose is clear: to champion, entertain and bring together our communities. We are home to some of the UK’s best loved media brands that have been the voice of our communities for generations – from the iconic Beano, Stylist and People’s Friend to the UK’s biggest puzzle brand Puzzler and a portfolio of regional newspapers and radio stations including two of the top three best-selling regional dailies in the UK - The Press and Journal and The Courier. We have a thriving genealogy community (Findmypast), a trusted technology solutions business (Brightsolid) and a global marketing agency (Fifth Ring). From our long-established media brand, Energy Voice, an influential authority in the global energy conversation, we launched E-FWD, a membership organisation where the industry’s forward thinkers are comin
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