UX Designer

Forman IT Limited; Telford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A digital solutions company in the UK is seeking a UX designer to join their multi-disciplinary team. The ideal candidate will produce design concepts for digital services and work closely with front end developers to implement those concepts. You should have a good understanding of web technologies, including accessibility, and experience in web/mobile application interface design. This role requires strong collaboration skills to ensure user-focused outcomes in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Good understanding of web technologies and their impact on design, particularly accessibility.
• Experience in web and mobile application interface design.

Responsibilities

• Work part of a multi-disciplinary team delivering user-focused digital services.
• Produce and implement design concepts for digital services under tight deadlines.
• Collaborate with user researchers to ensure well-designed, user-focused output.
• Design communication materials that are consistent and user-friendly.
• Partner with team members to create a consistent user experience.
• Deliver high-quality digital service designs that meet web standards and accessibility criteria.
• Seek feedback and learning opportunities for continuous improvement.

Skills

Sketching

Design production

Hand-coded HTML & CSS

Rapid prototyping

Responsive web interactions design for mobile

Job description

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.

What you’ll do As an interaction designer you will:

• 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; Deliver high quality finished digital service designs that meet web standards and GDS/GOV.UK design principles, ensuring that elements such as accessibility are built into designs from the outset;
• 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 external

What you’ll bring

• 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