UX Designer - Inside IR35 - Hybrid - Edinburgh/Glasgow
Market Rates
Duration - 6 months
Harvey Nash's Public Sector Client are looking to bring in a contract UX Designer to join their growing team.
Key tasks will include but will not be limited to:
- Produce designs based on insights delivered by UX research team members
- Work within an agile product team so that design work fits seamlessly into wider team workflow
- Provide a consistent experience to users by setting and working to appropriate quality standards, using an established design system
- Provide feedback and advice to wider design colleagues
- Plan, design and conduct user research when required, using appropriate strategies to test new ideas and concept development as well as usability testing of more mature products
- Provide leadership and direction around the application of user-centred design, UX best practice and emerging trends
Experience Required
- Extensive experience working in the field of UX design
- Proven experience in delivering design solutions to fast moving agile teams
- Experience in choosing and applying appropriate user-centred research methods
- Experience of working both independently and as part of a team, whilst balancing a range of competing priorities
- Experience of leading team meetings, webinars, events and/or conferences online
- Track record of working within project management environments, planning and organising a variety of tasks, including involvement in multiple projects and programmes of work
- Experience communicating complex, confidential and often sensitive information with a range of staff across the organisation and with
Desirable Experience
- Working knowledge of agile methodologies
- Experience in one or all of the following: Axure, Figma,
- usability testing tools, HTML and CSS
- Experience of delivering presentations to large audiences on a local and/or national basis to enhance engagement and collaboration
- Experience of working within a Health, Social Care or educational environment
- Experience of working flexibly in complex/sensitive environments where the parameters of the job are not necessarily clearly defined
- Expertise in accessing, analysing and presenting a wide range of complex information to a range of audiences
- Knowledge of the Digital Scotland Design System
- Usage of analytics to track and improve the user experience
- Experience of designing for public-facing/consumer products
- Expertise in accessibility and inclusion
- Design sprint methodology
- Sound understanding of the application of GDPR to the storage and use of personal information and data privacy
- Knowledge and understanding of the wider combined health and social care system (including the third and independent sector) along with a sound grasp of the Scottish policy context/sector
