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Contract Senior Digital Product Designer (UX / UI) - UK / PT (Remote)
YLD, United Kingdom
Experience
1 Year
Salary
Job Type
Job Shift
Job Category
Traveling
No
Career Level
Telecommute
Qualification
As mentioned in job details
Total Vacancies
1 Job
Posted on
Oct 22, 2021
Last Date
Nov 22, 2021
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Job Description
OverviewEverything we do is to empower our clients to move forward.Great technology companies are built on incredible design, engineering and strategy, working in unison, operating at the very heart of an organisation and its audience. Enabling organisations to become great technology companies is our mission and our promise to our clients.We aim to leave them with the mindset, tools, skills and expertise they need to go beyond their own expectations, revolutionise their sectors, and for us to be proud of the change we create with them and their customers.
About YLD
YLD is a software engineering and design consultancy; we create digital capabilities for our clients that last beyond our engagement.
• Our purpose is to help our clients develop the capabilities they need to outperform their competitors. • Our success is a consequence of ensuring our clients are successful. • Our company is built on extraordinary people; we aim to attract, inspire, develop and retain them.
We have offices in London, Lisbon, Porto. We support remote work and currently, all our teams are working fully remote.
About You
We’re looking for an experienced Digital Product Designer based in the UK or Portugal, with strong UX skills, as well as great Visual Design skills to join one of our existing projects on a Contractor basis as soon as possible. (Contract outside of IR35)
The ideal person is someone who can bring their drive, passion and experience to our work and process, working as a part of our existing product development team, currently on a fully remote basis.
We expect that you have a successful background in Digital Product Design, and that you are comfortably familiar with a combination of specialisms, such as: UX Design, Product Strategy, Service Design, UI Design - a blend of the above skills is a big advantage, but your core skills and real strength really sits in Product and UXDesign.
Experience working with, or good knowledge of implementing web accessibility would be a big bonus too.
(Coding ability would be a benefit, but is in no way essential - HTML, CSS, JS, Swift or any other language).
As an experienced Digital Product Designer we assume you have strong UX Design amp; Research skills and as someone who is also a good Interaction Designer, you have a deep understanding of Information Architecture.
Here we have listed some of the skills we would expect to see you excel in: - You can take the long-term vision and help define a product design strategy of complex service and product design projects.
- Know how to visualise responsive websites and applications, and the thought processes required.
- Makes good structural design decisions for feature sets that are well defined or limited in scope.
- Deliver quality design work and inspire our clients towards these standards.
- Balances relatively complex user, business, and technical requirements to arrive at sound information-architecture designs.
- When it comes to visual outputs, you always base your decisions on solid visual design principles and are proficient using the right tool for the job.
- Happily and expertly build complex, accurate wireframes, following existing visual-design guidelines.
- Expertly collaborates with product teams to understand how all aspects of a product’s functionality would work within an established visual-design framework.
- Defining and documenting new interaction design patterns specific to a product or platform.
- Comfortable in the design software of your choice, but generally software agnostic with a keen ability to pick up a new one quickly, should it be required (e.g. Sketch, Figma, F
Job Specification
YLD
Information Technology and Services - London, United Kingdom