Interaction Designer

Talent; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 111,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Talent is seeking an experienced Interaction Designer to join a multidisciplinary digital delivery team. You will help shape accessible, responsive, and engaging public facing websites, content heavy sites, balancing usability with a distinct visual identity that sets these services apart from standard GOV.UK designs.

You will work with researchers, developers, and product teams to translate insights into practical improvements, using Figma for prototyping, and collaborating on CMS patterns

Qualifications

• Public-facing, content-heavy website design experience.
• Experience designing for WordPress CMS.
• Strong knowledge of accessibility and responsive design.
• Ability to deliver GOV.UK-like accessible design.
• Proficient in Figma with reusable components.
• Collaborates with researchers, developers and product teams.

Responsibilities

• Interaction and visual design: create user journeys, navigation, task flows and page layouts in Figma.
• Prototype and iterate with researchers to test and refine designs.
• Design for content-heavy websites and CMS (WordPress).
• Balance live service improvements with design debt and future platform work.
• Maintain design files and document decisions for reuse.

Skills

Figma proficiency

Accessibility

Responsive design

Public-facing web design

Multidisciplinary collaboration

Tools

Figma

WordPress

Job description

• Location: Hybrid 2 days per week on-site at any client hub
• Clearance: BPSS

Job Description

• Role: Interaction Designer
• Rate: £600/day (Inside IR35)
• Contract: 6 months
• Location: Hybrid 2 days per week on-site at any client hub
• Clearance: BPSS

About The Role

We are looking for an experienced Interaction Designer to join a multidisciplinary digital delivery team. In this role, you will help shape accessible, responsive, and engaging public facing websites, content heavy sites. Crucially, you will balance usability and accessibility with a distinct visual identity that sets these services apart from standard GOV.UK designs

Key Responsibilities

• Interaction and Visual Design: Create clear, usable user journeys, navigation, task flows, and page layouts using Figma, ensuring a strong balance between visual design, usability, and accessibility.
• Prototyping and Iteration: Build prototypes and work alongside researchers to test, iterate, and refine design solutions based on user feedback.
• CMS and Content Collaboration: Design for content heavy websites and Content Management Systems (e.g. WordPress), ensuring tools and structures work seamlessly for both end-users and content editors.
• Service Evolution: Balance day-to-day design needs across live service improvements, tackling design debt, and contributing to future facing platform development.
• Design System and Asset Management: Maintain organised design files, document design decisions clearly, and build reusable design assets in Figma

Key Requirements

• Web and Content Experience: Strong track record designing public-facing, content-heavy, or campaign/recruitment style websites.
• CMS Design Knowledge: Experience designing for platforms like WordPress and collaborating with editors who create and maintain website content.
• Accessibility and Responsiveness: In depth understanding of inclusive design principles, delivering responsive experiences that work across different devices and user needs.
• GOV.UK Distinction: Ability to deliver accessible designs that feel visually distinct from GOV.UK.
• Figma Proficiency: Strong Figma skills, including component management, documenting design decisions, and creating reusable design assets.
• Multidisciplinary Collaboration: Confidence working alongside user researchers, developers, and product teams to translate research insights into practical improvements

£600.00 - £650.00 / day