The focus of your role UX Designers work with user researchers and front-end developers, designing in the browser, to deliver highly user focused and successful services.
UX designers produce design concepts for digital services, often working to very tight deadlines, and work with front end developers to implement those concepts. The ideal candidate will have a love of the web and its possibilities, a passion for design and its history and an understanding of how form and function work together.
You will proactively seek new learning opportunities and welcome constructive criticism of your work.
What you’ll do As an interaction designer you will:
- Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to deliver highly user focused and successful digital services;
- Produce design concepts for digital services, often working to very tight deadlines, and work with front end developers to implement those concepts;
- Work with user researchers to ensure all output, internal and external, is well designed and user focused;
- Design and create communication material ensuring all elements are well designed, consistent and user focused;
- Partner with colleagues to facilitate a consistent user experience, including by designing reusable elements of a digital service;
- Build relationships and work effectively within an agile delivery model with colleagues and external providers, for example user researchers and business analysts; Deliver high quality finished digital service designs that meet web standards and GDS/GOV.UK design principles, ensuring that elements such as accessibility are built into designs from the outset;
- Proactively seek new learning opportunities and look to continually improve by gaining feedback from your peers and the business;
- Communicate credibly with a wide range of digital delivery disciplines and talent both internally and external
What you’ll bring
- Practical experience in designing interfaces and transaction flows for the web; Ability to prototype for the web & design in browser;
- A good basic understanding of web technologies and how they affect design, including accessibility;
Experience of web and mobile application interface design.
Core skills: sketching, design production, hand-coded HTML & CSS, rapid prototyping; Responsive web interactions design for mobile
Skills Required
- Practical experience designing interfaces and transaction flows for the web
- Ability to prototype for the web and design in the browser
- Good basic understanding of web technologies and how they affect design, including accessibility
- Experience of web and mobile application interface design
- Core skills: sketching, design production, hand-coded HTML & CSS, rapid prototyping
- Responsive web interactions design for mobile
- Experience working in agile delivery teams and collaborating with user researchers and front-end developers
- Ability to deliver designs that meet web standards and GDS/GOV.UK design principles
What We Do
Forman IT Limited is a specialist IT recruitment agency with over 35 years of experience in the industry. They are dedicated to building high-performing IT and digital teams by connecting talented professionals with ambitious organizations. The company offers both permanent and contract work across various technical sectors, including infrastructure, cloud strategy, cyber security, software engineering, and data analytics to deliver measurable impact for their clients.
