User Experience Designer Full Time NEW

User Experience Designer – Permanent – Hybrid/Remote

Locations: London, Manchester, Newcastle, Glasgow, Leeds

Competitive Market Rate Annual Salary on offer

We are partnered with a leading Consulting client who are looking to add multiple UX professionals to join their Digital practise in the UK.

You will champion inclusive design practices throughout project lifecycles, ensuring solutions are accessible to as many users as possible. This includes engaging with diverse user research, applying accessibility guidelines and legislation, and advocating for inclusive design principles in your deliverables.

As a User Experience Designer you will:

• Use different techniques to identify and understand users and their needs, so that you can translate user stories and propose user-focused, evidence-based design approaches to meet these needs.
• Design accessible and impactful products and services for some of our public and private sector clients.
• Employ a wide range of skills, interviewing users, creating detailed plans, understanding and extrapolating data, facilitating workshops, presenting research findings and more
• Visualise, articulate and solve complex problems and concepts, and make disciplined decisions based on available information and research evidence.
• Apply technical knowledge and experience to create or design interactive prototypes, both products and services.
• Understand and resolve design-centric disputes across varying levels of complexity and risk.

Your profile:

• Grounding in user-centred design, from concept to final delivery. Knowledge of which tools, process or methods to use and how to bring an agile delivery team along with you.
• Evidence of Working with User Centred Design colleagues to synthesize insights and act on the outcomes.
• You will already have SC (Security Check) Clearance.
• Experience working with Government Digital Service (GDS) service standards, using GDS design principles
• Experience working with relevant accessibility standards and legislation, such as the Web Content Accessibility Regulations (WCAG)
• Experience using a range of design tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, Invision Studio, Axure etc.
• An empathetic approach and ability to listen to the needs of technical and business stakeholders, and interpret them in a way that is clear for both audiences.
• Ability to present designs and justify decisions you’ve made using an evidence-based approach.