Interaction Designer
| Posting date: | 21 October 2024 |
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| Salary: | £32,603 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 November 2024 |
| Location: | Swansea |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 374571/1 |
Summary
Can you make digital services quicker, simpler and more efficient for the people who use them?
Are you someone who enjoys working collaboratively with different business areas?
If so, we have an exciting opportunity for 8 Interaction Designers to join us at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA), and we’d love to hear from you!
This is a unique opportunity to build upon your skills and experience while working on Government Digital Services that will be used by millions of people every day. You will influence the service and experience for our users and be able to make a positive difference. We offer a wide range of services, and your tasks will vary continuously.
The DVLA deliver wide reaching digital services to the UK public and industry. Our customers now have more online services to choose from than ever before and reach over 50 million people a year.
Interaction Designers are key figures in delivery of digital services, contributing to the design of digital user journeys by creating screen concepts, wireframes and prototypes to facilitate user testing sessions.
We will look to you to utilise your experience and skillset to translate known user needs into solutions across multiple workstreams by continuously iterating designs and interactions all based on research evidence by collaborating with our user researchers.
You will contribute to the design of a digital user journey, creating screens and interactive solutions whilst being able to justify your choices. Dynamic prototypes are created to support research and usability sessions to test design assumptions.
The role is to ensure that the service is user-friendly, accessible, well-presented, and crucially, designed around best practice standards and Government Digital Service (GDS) design system.
We are growing our team, and you will have the opportunity to be involved in reviewing team process to further improve interaction design at DVLA.
Responsibilities
Your responsibilities will include but will not be limited to:
- By collaborating with fellow Interaction Designers and through referral to the Senior Interaction Designers, contributing design reviews based on established user needs. Producing a range of prototypes, explaining the rationale for the design solutions.
- Creating and testing dynamic prototypes conducting usability testing in an Agile working environment, collaborating with colleagues in Service Design, User Research and digital delivery disciplines.
- Working with both internal and external stakeholders, collaborating with a range of both technical and non-technical colleagues, to decide upon the most suitable design patterns to use in initial flat prototypes and if changes are needed in coded prototypes based on user feedback in testing.
- Participating in team design reviews, coaching of junior colleagues and undertaking appropriate training and development opportunities as and when required and advised by Senior Interaction Designers.
For further information about the role please see the attached role profile.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/GUG7N25Pn6g?si=d3maaG6HQdURHQ6e
Additional information
Applications will be accepted from full time/part time/job sharers. Full time roles at DVLA consist of 37 hours per week. Part time and/or flexible working may also be available subject to the needs of the business. If you have a flexible or part time working requirement, you should contact the vacancy holder in advance of making an application to avoid possible disappointment later in the process should your desired working arrangements not be compatible with the requirements of the role. To contact the vacancy holder, please use the job contact details listed under ‘Contact point for applicants’.