Senior Interaction Designer - DfE - G7

Job description

• Lead on the design and prototyping of user interfaces that align with user needs and business requirements.
• Collaborate with UCD professionals, including researchers, service designers, and content designers, to turn insights into functional and engaging designs.
• Use data and evidence to refine and improve designs, making informed decisions based on testing and user feedback.
• Advocate for user needs throughout the design process, ensuring solutions are accessible, inclusive, and solve complete user problems. 
• Communicate design solutions effectively to stakeholders, contributing to the overall vision for the service.
• Coach and mentor junior designers, facilitate design crits, and ensure services are meeting design standards as a service assessor.

Person specification

Essential Criteria:

• Extensive experience in designing and testing complex user interfaces, using advanced prototyping techniques to validate and refine designs.
• Skilled in using data, research, and testing feedback to drive informed, user-centred design decisions.
• Strong communicator with the ability to manage and influence senior stakeholders, encourage collaboration, and facilitate alignment across teams.
• Expert knowledge in accessible and inclusive design principles, ensuring products are usable for all users.
• Experienced in agile working practices, adapting to iterative feedback and prioritising tasks based on user and business needs.
• Be familiar with using, and contributing to, design systems and have experience designing accessible, user-centred digital products in complex or regulated environments.

Desirable Criteria:

• Be able to prototype in code using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• Strong analytical skills to identify and address issues within service designs, improving reliability and usability.
• Ability to evaluate and measure design impact against organisational KPIs and objectives.

Desirable criteria will only be assessed at interview, in the event of a tie break situation, to make an informed decision.

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Prototyping
• User Focus
• Evidence and context-based design
• Experience of working within constraints