Senior Interaction Designer - Newport
hace 23 horas
Stourbridge
About the job Job summary Senior Interaction Designer The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) is seeking a senior interaction designer to contribute to its digital transformation. This role involves designing user-centred public services at scale within multidisciplinary teams , aligning with Government Design Principles . Key responsibilities include identifying and resolving complex public infrastructure issues, promoting best practices and standards in user centred design, and mentoring junior designers. The successful candidate will be proactive, take ownership of design activities (like facilitating critiques and documenting user journeys), and possess excellent leadership, collaboration, presentation, and communication skills to work effectively with various stakeholders. Find out more on our Design in Government blog . This role will be carried out in-line with IPO Hybrid working arrangements where staff are currently expected to spend at le ast 20% of their time working onsite from one of our offices. This role is based in our Newport Office. The requirement for attendance at an office location can vary by role so we would encourage candidates to discuss working arrangements with the recruiting manager to agree a reasonable balance between working from home and the office. Job description Main duties consist of but are not limited to: • Design and Develop User-Centred Services: Work in agile, multidisciplinary teams to rapidly develop design concepts for complex transformation programs, collaborating with service managers and programme directors. This includes actively participating in user research, creating prototypes, and designing user interactions across various channels, devices, and technologies, all while being able to justify design decisions with evidence and data., • Promote and Implement Design Excellence : Champion a consistent, high-quality user experience by promoting reusable design elements and best practices across the IPO and wider government communities. This involves contributing to user-centred design standards and guidance, utilising the GOV.UK Design System, and ensuring designs meet accessibility, legal, and security requirements, as well as the GOV.UK Service Standard., • Experience working effectively in an agile, multi-disciplinary team environment, delivering iterative design components as part of a project team., • Experience in designing accessible solutions across various channels to meet customer needs. Proven ability to produce essential user-centred design deliverables, such as user flows, process flows, service blueprints, and site maps., • Proficient in using prototyping tools like GOV.UK Prototype Kit, Figma, or Adobe XD to create and validate high-fidelity prototypes., • Experience in conducting usability testing, either independently or collaboratively with user researchers., • Demonstrated experience working with the GOV.UK Design System, Service Manual, and design principles, including the ability to recommend new patterns or update existing ones within the system., • Experience in leading community of practice activities., • Upload an anonymised copy of your current CV. Please remove all identifying markers such as name, title, education institution etc., • Use this to explain why you're suitable for the role ., • Structure your statement around the essential criteria in the Person Specification., • Leadership, • Working Together, • Developing Self and Others, • Unlimited Pluralsight video learning access, • Access to Microsoft's ESI training suite, • Hybrid working with no core hours, • Substantial support for career progression, • 25 days annual leave moving to 30 days in annual increments, • UK nationals, • nationals of the Republic of Ireland, • nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK, • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window), • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS), • individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020