UX Designer
Agency Reference: 7074930
Location: London
A position has arisen for a UX Designer within a leading academic and educational publishing organisation based in London. You will be working in close collaboration with Product Managers, Stakeholders and other members of the User Experience Team. The successful candidate must have at least 3 years of experience in a similar role.
Your duties will include:
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Lead on critical design discovery work, including capturing, documenting and communicating user needs, clearly communicate outcomes with standard tools of the trade, such as user flows, affinity maps and personas
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Collaborate with team members to craft a vision for the user experience that meets business and user goals, and work with wider stakeholders to bring them on board
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Deliver strong concepts, from initial sketches to flows, wireframes and interactive prototypes, quickly iterating on designs
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Seek early feedback from stakeholders to ensure that your designs work within any constraints set by branding, systems, standards and technology
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Work with users to solicit feedback on design work, including user testing of prototypes
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Hand over to visual designers and developers, leaving them with a solid understanding of the design decisions taken and remaining on hand to co-create solutions to any problems that arise downstream
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Conduct acceptance testing to ensure that the developed product lives up to the experience as designed
Required Skills & Experience:
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Collaborative work style focused on co-creating solutions with team members and other stakeholders
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Experience with standard research methods such as user testing, interviews, focus groups, card sorting and competitor analysis
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Ability to draw insights from qualitative and quantitative data to inform designs.
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Solid information architecture skills and an ability to represent complex information with clarity
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Understanding of web accessibility and experience of designing inclusive and accessible experiences
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Comprehensive experience of at least one rapid prototyping tool
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Experience of creating successful responsive designs
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Effective time management and multitasking
To apply for this role or to find out about other technology jobs, please contact Renay Demoore on the Reading Digital Recruitment team on 0118 207 1212 or rdemoore@venngroup.com
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