UX Designer

Job Description

A leading Education and publishing firm currently requires a UX Designer to join them on a 6 month rolling contract basis. Based in central London but currently working from home.The role holder will ensure that product user interfaces reflect theur learning and experience design principles. He/she will design product interfaces to be engaging and effective, making proposals on UX design decisions for the consideration of other stakeholders and working collaboratively with other Experience Design team members. In particular, he/she will work closely in paired practice with UI Designers, implementing Information Architecture and wireframe artefacts, across multiple device form factors. He/she will also provide support to Product Management, Engineering and UI teams, to ensure UX development meets business expectations and WCAG AA accessibility standards.Key Accountabilities Works with and between research, UI and development teams in an evidence-based and Agile design process, generating artefacts to meet the scope of product requirements, ensuring that the resulting user experience properly integrates with desired learning and experience design principles. Provides support, with moderate guidance, on how to design products to be more engaging and effective for the user, makes proposals on UX design decisions for the consideration of other stakeholders. Provides support, with moderate guidance, to Engineering teams to ensure development meets UX and Product expectations. Create wireframes and other UX artefacts into compelling deliverables. Has a decent understanding of financial opportunities associated with design projects of varying scale, working within parameters of budget and cost relative to market potential and doing so with moderate guidance. Maintain high standards of design quality through contribution to and working within their UX design systems. Scaling design solutions across platforms effectively and efficiently. Provide cross platform interactions with clear consideration for both functional enhancements and compelling experiences to end users. Handover of clear specifications with close communication for product deliverables. Contributes to the design of specific products with learner needs in mind. Interpreting data and research and other stakeholders to understand learner desires; embeds these inputs into product user interface designs directly with moderate guidance. Member of cross-functional product design and development teams. Can be considered a subject matter expert to the team in creating effective user experiences. Leverages inputs and data from other stakeholders to create engaging and product appropriate experiences, in accordance with market need and does so with moderate guidance. Incorporates cutting-edge digital capability into their product offerings. Provides support in execution of specific products, to maximize the digital user experience and create appropriate consistency across their products with moderate guidance. Working to be a digital UX subject matter expert to build teams, to ensure the intended digital experience is achieved through the their products before release to the market.Requirements Extensive and demonstrable experience of User Experience design Working knowledge of Figma, Miro and prototyping and user flow tools Good working knowledge of microinteraction/animation tools Good knowledge of topics related to HCI, IA, IxD Good knowledge of responsive and native technical considerations Good knowledge of established design languages and experience inadapting and extending them High level of creativity, design thinking methodology Diligence, responsibility, timely delivery. Communicative command of English. Collaborative interpersonal skill-set Open mind and willingness to develop. Specialised higher education qualifications in appropriate fieldBenefits£425 Umbrella£315.00 + £45 holiday pay paye Required skills

HCI

IA

publishing

animation

prototyping

higher education

IxD

ux designer

user flow

user experience design

figma

miro

microinteraction

Keyskills :
HCI IA publishing animation prototyping higher education IxD ux designer user flow user experience design figma miro microinteraction