About the Role
As a UX/UI Designer, you will work across various Research & Design projects, applying content skills and experience to solve complex design challenges. You will create evidence-based, user-centered services that help people achieve their goals by defining user journeys, developing prototypes, creating design patterns, and building client design systems.
Responsibilities
- Define and map end-to-end user and customer journeys.
- Develop prototypes from rough concepts to hi-fidelity interactive experiences.
- Create new design patterns and modify existing ones.
- Help build and design clients’ design systems.
- Design services for users that struggle online, considering disability, lack of digital confidence, age, or neurodiversity to build inclusive services.
Requirements
- Minimum 2 years’ commercial experience in UX and/or Interaction Design.
- User-centred design methodology, including conceptual sketching and visualisation, journey mapping, defining UX principles, information architecture and rapid prototyping.
- User research methods, including user needs insight and analysis, usability testing and A/B testing.
- Fluency in mobile-first and responsive design patterns.
- Proficiency in tools such as Figma or similar such as Gov.UK Toolkit.
- Ability to articulate design rationale to stakeholders, receiving and acting on feedback.
- Experience of working in multi-discipline, cross-functional teams, alongside researchers, content designers, service designers and developers.
- Knowledge of the latest Accessibility standards and inclusive design methods, including WCAG 2.2, the Equality Act and GovUK Service Manual.
- Working with design systems and creating common, shareable design patterns that maintain consistency for the user experience and ensure governance in delivery.
- Ability to design at the systems level, not just the screen level.
- A growth mindset.
- AI curious and ready to embrace opportunities.
- Basic front-end literacy, including HTML, CSS and JavaScript to have informed conversations with engineers (Desirable).
- Experience working in central and/or local government, transport, justice, health, trade, water, energy and education (Desirable).
- Understanding of the growing role and potential of AI tools in design, including prompt design, first-draft UI and code generation and designing for conversational and voice interfaces (Desirable).
- Experience in designing services that use AI to enhance the user experience and/or using AI to develop coded prototypes from your designs (Desirable).
- Appreciation of AI ethics and designing for trust, including the boundaries around automation and ability to review outputs for quality and accuracy (Desirable).
- Experience working to Agile methodology (Desirable).
- Visual / graphic design (Desirable).
Skills
- UX/UI expertise
- Experience designing services for users that struggle online
- User-centred design methodology
- User research methods
- Mobile-first and responsive design patterns
- Figma or similar tools
- Gov.UK Toolkit
- Accessibility standards
- Inclusive design methods
- WCAG 2.2
- Equality Act
- GovUK Service Manual
- Design systems
- Growth mindset
- AI curiosity
- HTML
- CSS
- JavaScript
- Agile methodology
- Visual / graphic design
Location
- London UK
- Manchester UK
Work Type
- Permanent
- Full Time
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Minimum 2 years’ commercial experience
Benefits
- Holiday entitlement, 28 days with the option to buy/sell up to 5 days (note that 3 days are held for Christmas holidays)
- Day off (on or in the week of) your birthday
- Pension eligibility, up to 5% matched contributions
- Private healthcare
- Life assurance
- Enhanced maternity and enhanced paternity and shared parental leave
- Cycle to work schemes
- Gym & retail discounts
- Regular social events/activities
- A range of other benefits from our flexible benefits package
About the Company
- Transform is a fresh alternative to Big Consulting, acting as an end-to-end transformation partner that defines, designs, builds, and operates systems to solve clients’ toughest challenges and seize their biggest opportunities.
- The company combines strategy, data, AI, technology, and change management to make an impact by improving lives, supporting citizens, streamlining workflows, and making the world a better place.
- Transform specialises in public sector and public-facing organisations, including government agencies, local authorities, energy, utilities, transportation, and healthcare, as well as dynamic brands across automotive, retail, financial services, and consumer goods.
- The Research and Service Design practice believes good design changes lives and helps organisations solve complex problems through empathy, evidence, and craft.
- They immerse themselves in user worlds, conduct research to understand contexts and systemic forces, make sense of complex systems, visualize service ecosystems, and use data to ground decisions.
- They design collaboratively with users, deliverers, managers, and commissioners to create lasting change and grow design-thinking communities.
- Their work spans central government, local authorities, justice, health, trade, and education, having transformed thousands of lives and received awards.
Equal Opportunity
- We’re committed to equality of opportunity for all, and we actively seek applications from all ethnicities, orientations, beliefs, gender identities + those with neurodiverse traits and disabilities.
- We want you to have the best opportunity to show us who you are and what you can do.
- Please do let us know if you need any adjustments now or at any point in the recruitment process.
