Job Description
What we're looking for
We're seeking a dynamic, forward-thinking Interaction Designer with excellent communication skills. You will be open-minded, happy to work on your own or as part of a team and want to learn new technologies and promote best practice.
Our Interaction Designers work as part of multidisciplinary agile scrum teams to deliver high-quality digital services. As an Interaction Designer at Mercator you will work with User Researchers and Frontend Developers, designing in the browser, to deliver highly user-focused and successful services. You will produce design concepts for digital services, often working to very tight deadlines, and work with Frontend Developers to implement those concepts.
As an Interaction Designer you will:
Work within agile delivery teams to produce and implement high-quality design concepts for digital services
Work with User Researchers to ensure all output, internal and external, is well designed and user focused
Design and deliver consistent, user focused communication material
Partner with colleagues to ensure a consistent user experience across services, including 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 digital service designs that meet web standards, ensuring that compliance with accessibility standards is built into designs from the outset
Communicate credibly with a wide range of digital delivery disciplines internally and externally
Participate in the wider Interaction Design community (outside of Mercator), building relationships with other designers, identifying learning opportunities and best practices we can adopt
Skills and Experience:
Core skills: sketching, design production, hand-coded HTML & CSS and rapid prototyping
Proven experience of 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
Experience of responsive web interactions design for mobile devices
Experience of researching design with users
Service design experience, including user journey mapping
Experience working within an agile, multi-disciplinary team environment, and the ability to deliver iterative design components (including user journeys) to the development team
*Applicants must have the right to work in the UK and the ability to pass BPSS vetting