YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO SOMETHING BIG:

• Designing strategy: by contributing to change and making an impact through design by developing product roadmaps, prioritizing based on risk, stewarding product decisions, and embedding standards.
• Focusing on users: by taking a creative approach to product propositions, defining scope and purpose, based on how it meets user needs and business ambition.
• Framing problems: as hypotheses to be tested and prioritized based on risk and insight.
• Communicating design: through storytelling to demonstrate value and intent, achieving desired outcomes.
• Defining measures: to test assumptions from multiple hypotheses and define metrics to measure success.
• Testing ideas: by planning and conducting experiments with users and stakeholders to make decisions based on evidence.
• Creating prototypes: by applying technical knowledge and experience that result in workable prototypes at different levels of fidelity (paper, clickable and code)
• Designing accessible interfaces: by crafting flows and visual designs that are accessible, meet user needs, and deliver the best possible user experience; embedding inclusive design approaches from conception to delivery.
• Establishing design patterns: as well as implementing existing design systems and contributing to their development.
• Collaborating with development teams: by translating designs into user stories, moving products from alpha/prototyping into live at scale and acting on qualitative and quantitative feedback from users of services.

OUR IDEAL TEAMMATE HAS/IS:

• Designing inclusive and accessible digital interfaces
• Leading others on hypothesis-driven design approaches
• Designing user flows, journeys, interactions and user interfaces
• Prototyping interactions at the right fidelity (paper, clickable and code)
• Planning, conducting and leading usability testing with users
• Defining success measures for digital products at both a feature and strategic level
• Talking about design in a way others can understand
• Building trust in user-centred design
• Establishing design patterns, creating design systems or using existing design systems
• Leading the organisation and facilitation of design workshops
• Designing collaboratively with non-designers
• Coaching/mentoring other designers
• Working within multidisciplinary agile teams
• Working across multiple product phases (from research/discovery to live)

BROWNIE POINTS:

• Prototyping in code (HTML/CSS/javascript)
• Using web analytics to inform user needs
• Managing the quality and wellbeing of other designers
• Training both designers and non-designers
• Working in central government to the GDS service standard