UX Designer — Research-Driven, AI-Enabled, Hybrid

NOCN Group; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Free parking at offices

Life assurance

Training and development opportunities

Dress down Fridays

Job summary

NOCN Group is seeking a motivated UX Designer to join the Digital Services team. The role is remote with an element of weekly office work in Sheffield, reporting to the Group Director - Digital, to deliver high-quality services aligned with the organisation's objectives.

You will conduct discovery research, create personas and journey maps, and craft wireframes and prototypes in Figma. An emphasis on accessibility, collaboration, and using AI tools in design is essential.

Qualifications

• Experience planning and running user research and translating findings into design decisions.
• Strong design thinking and ability to explain rationale behind decisions.
• Portfolio of prototypes and delivered services; not purely visual UI.

Responsibilities

• Plan and run discovery and evaluative research throughout the product lifecycle.
• Apply design thinking to frame problems; create personas and journey maps.
• Facilitate workshops and align stakeholders with user insights.
• Design wireframes, prototypes and interaction flows in Figma for rapid testing.
• Leverage AI tooling to accelerate research synthesis and ideation.
• Collaborate with developers and data teams to ship validated designs.
• Champion accessibility and inclusive design across products.
• Develop a shared design language and reusable patterns library.
• Help set design and research direction at NOCN and raise the bar.

Skills

UX research

Design thinking

Facilitation

Prototyping

Accessibility WCAG

AI tooling in UX

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Degree in Design/HCI/Psychology/related discipline

Tools

Figma

Job description

NOCN Group is seeking a motivated UX Designer to join the Digital Services team. The role is remote with an element of weekly office work in Sheffield, reporting to the Group Director - Digital, to deliver high-quality services aligned with the organisation's objectives.

You will conduct discovery research, create personas and journey maps, and craft wireframes and prototypes in Figma. An emphasis on accessibility, collaboration, and using AI tools in design is essential.