Interaction Designer at Mercator IT Solutions Ltd, Southwark, London, £Contract Rate

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.

Knowledge/experience 

You will need:

• 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.