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We are currently recruiting for an Interaction Designer

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Department for Work and Pensions

As an Interaction Designer you will work across the team, owning the delivery of artefacts and supporting interaction design. You will work alongside researchers and developers to deliver services, products and tools which fulfil user needs. You will have a strong understanding of all the elements of interaction design and experience of working in multidisciplinary teams. You will have a solid technical understanding and be comfortable delivering prototypes. Your focus will be on fulfilling user needs and understanding user journeys, using prototypes to do so. You will be interested in developing the design practice and will be comfortable managing small teams whilst also feeding into the larger team.

As an Interaction Designer, you will: 

• Understand as-is interaction design and identify improvement opportunities
• Use typography and affordance to improve user experience
• Ensure that the design of services is consistent, both internally and with the rest of the wider organisation
• Deliver best practices around user-centred design processes, user research and experience design
• Identify and understand constraints and able to work within them
• Work across both digital and non-digital platforms to create the best possible user experience
• Understand the bigger picture (high-level flows and processes) as well as the fine detail of individual parts
• Analyse and identify cost saving opportunities whilst implementing best practice interaction design
• Plan and facilitate workshops to drive actionable outcomes
• Manage stakeholder needs across different areas

You’ll have:

• Experience of GDS principles
• Experience of interaction development for Apps would be advantageous
• Experience of sketching, prototyping and iterative design
• Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team
• Experience of using a user-centred design approach
• Experience of working at pace in an agile environment
• Experience of putting forward the case for design to senior stakeholders and product owners

"In applying for this role you acknowledge the following; this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment, and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different."