UX Designer - GDS Experience - Public Sector

Difrent

Newcastle Upon Tyne, , United Kingdom permanent

Posted: November 7, 2018

Job Description

At Difrent, we have an ambitious growth plan that will see us delivering cutting edge digital services to our Healthcare, Government and Corporate clients.

Our culture is founded on passion, creativity and straight talking. As a business we are fun, charity focused and out there, want people to be who they really are and want people who want to be part of that. The two owners have huge amounts of drive, ambition and have created an awesome brand.

We're now looking for a proactive and talented UX Designer to join us on a contract basis, to work on an exciting digital transformation project.

This is a great chance to work on a high profile digital service that really matters; with people who value design and help you to create work you're proud to talk about.

You'll be working in a multidisciplinary agile team to deliver a world-class, user-centred service in a truly collaborative environment.

Candidates who have previous experience of working to Government Digital Services guidelines (GDS) will have a distinct advantage.

UX Designer - Responsibilities

• Understand user needs
• Create and rapidly iterate service prototypes
• Arrange these separate interactions into rational user journeys within that service
• Understand the existing supporting system of a service and design targeted improvements
• Identify opportunities for cost reduction and improvement within the proposed service

UX Designer - Skills and experience

• Know how to interpret user research
• Be able to work in an Agile environment
• Engage the whole multidisciplinary team with the design process
• Lead a workshop
• Exposure with Heroku (Desirable)
• Be able to sketch and prototype on paper and in HTML
• Be able to explain ideas in a way that other people understand
• Welcome the constructive criticism of their work and be able to constructively review the work of others
• Understand how form and function work together
• Know how to remove complexity from services
• Collaborate on designs with a developer
• Work at pace
• Experience of the public sector (nice to have)
• Having knowledge of GDS guidelines will be an advantage (nice to have)

This is a fantastic opportunity for the right person to get involved with a leading digital agency with a large number of projects going on at any one time.

Please note that candidates will need to apply for a DBS/criminal record check.

Location: Newcastle upon Tyne

Duration: 6 months (outside IR35)

Rate: £450 per day

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