Interaction Designer-Stevenage £45k - £50k £5k on target bonus

ROLE REPORTS TO:  Design Director

COMPANY

My Client, a market leader in niche IT solutions, are international and have offices in the US and the UK. They have thousands of employees who support clients in 150 countries worldwide.

JOB SUMMARY

NB: To apply for this role, my client also needs to see your digital portfolio along with your CV.

This is a key member of the Product Design team. Working closely with Product Owners, development teams and using their observation skills in a customer environment, the Interaction Designer is responsible for developing a software design which is intuitive and compelling. In partnership with the Visual Designer and the R&D team, the Interaction Designer will be responsible for bringing their solutions to reality.

You will be expected to carry out research in order to understand the needs of the users, as well as continual validation of your designs to ensure they are appropriate. 

Working as a member of the design team the Interaction Designer leads the charge on a design problem working collaboratively with other Interaction Designers, Visual Designers and UI Developers.  Using whatever tools fit the job, the design team will prototype and validate designs iteratively to produce innovative and intuitive solutions to complex problems in the industry

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

Contextual Inquiry and Research - based on the direction of the Design Director, and inline with the stories selected from the backlog, the Interaction Designer should use best practices to observe users in their environment performing those tasks.

Interaction Design - based on the selected stories and on the conducted contextual research the Interaction designer should design, prototype and document software solutions that meet the need of the user and business, in a compelling and intuitive way.

Prototypes - Based on the problem to hand, the Interaction designer will help create prototypes that will be used to iteratively validate and evolve solutions. 

Analyze current product range to extract best practice and user interface styles - A key part of the role will involve reviewing our existing product portfolio, understanding what we do well and what we need to improve, in terms of features / functionality, workflows and user interface designs.

Liaise with customer base to gather information and requirements - Ultimately the customer is the target of our efforts. The development team must solve their problems and meet their requirements. The Interaction Designer will be responsible for understanding their needs and articulating them to the rest of the team.

Analyze information fed back from the consultancy groups - As part of our fact finding activities we will utilize Voice of Customer / Consultancy groups to endeavour to understand user requirements. The Interaction Designer must be able to consider the advice and findings of this group when building requirements.

Work closely with the R&D team - Although there will be many consumers of the information produced by the Designer, one of the key objectives of the role is to articulate the UX requirements to the R&D team so that they can implement the correct solution. To that end, not only will precise, accurate requirements need to be produced, but also the Interaction Designer will need to be able to work closely with the development group to ensure that the team can work efficiently.

Present information to the internal stakeholders and external customers where necessary - It is important that the information that the team consumes is fed back to the project stakeholders so that they are able to comment on the direction of the project and, in order, they remain invested. Attend regular Development Team meetings - As part of the core team the Interaction Designer is expected to attend and contribute to project meetings.

QUALIFICATIONS/REQUIREMENTS

Essential

You must apply with a digital portfolio as well as your CV

Three years experience working as an Interaction Designer or User Experience Professional, designing and developing software solutions

Three years experience interacting with users, understanding their needs and translating into product designs.

Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority

Desirable

Experience working in a Software Development environment using one of the AGILE SDLC methodologies.

Experience working with a team of designers

only successfull canidtes will be responded to within 2-3 working days