UX Designer


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Listed on

17th July 2017

Location

Newcastle Upon Tyne

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Negotiable

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Negotiable

Type

Contract

Start Date

ASAP

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Role: UX Designer

Location: Newcastle

Duration: 3-6 months

Start Date: ASAP

Role Description:

UX Designers work with user researchers and front end developers, designing in the browser, to deliver highly user focused and successful services. UX designers produce design concepts for digital services, often working to very tight deadlines, and work with front end developers to implement those concepts. The ideal candidate will have a love of the web and its possibilities, a passion for design and its history and an understanding of how form and function work together. You will proactively seek new learning opportunities and welcome constructive criticism of your work

Task Description:

Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to deliver highly user focused and successful digital services;

Produce design concepts for digital services, often working to very tight deadlines, and work with front end developers to implement those concepts

Work with user researchers to ensure all output, internal and external, is well designed and user focused

Design and create communication material ensuring all elements are well designed, consistent and user focused

Partner with colleagues to facilitate a consistent user experience, including by designing reusable elements of a digital service;

Build relationships and work effectively within an agile delivery model with colleagues and external providers, for example user researchers and business analysts

Proactively seek new learning opportunities and look to continually improve by gaining feedback from your peers and the business

Communicate credibly with a wide range of digital delivery disciplines and talent both internally and externally

Mandatory technical skills:

Practical experience in designing interfaces and transaction flows for the web

Ability to prototype for the web & design in browser

A good basic understanding of web technologies and how they affect design, including accessibility

Experience of web and mobile application interface design.

Core skills: sketching, design production, hand-coded HTML & CSS, rapid prototyping

Responsive web interactions design for mobile devices.

Desirable technical skills:

Experience in researching design with users

Service design experience, including user journey mapping

Experience working within an agile, multi-disciplinary team environment, and ability to deliver iterative design components (including user journeys) to the development team.

Please submit CVs in the first instance.

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