Methods Analytics is currently recruiting for a UX amp; UI Designer to join our team on a permanent basis. This role will require occasional travel to offices and client sites.
About Methods Analytics:
Methods Analytics exists to improve society by helping people make better decisions with data. Combining passionate people, sector-specific insight and technical excellence to provide our customers an end-to-end data service. We use a collaborative, creative and user centric approach data to do good and solve difficult problems. And ensure that our outputs are transparent, robust and transformative.
We value discussion and debate as part of our approach. We will question assumptions, ambition and process but do so with respect and humility. We relish difficult problems, and overcome them with innovation, creativity and technical freedom to help us design optimum solutions. Ethics, privacy and quality are at the heart of our work and we will not sacrifice these for outcomes. We treat data with respect and use it only for the right purpose. Our people are positive, dedicated and relentless. Data is a vast topic, but we strive for interactions that are engaging, informative and fun in equal measure. But maintain a steely focus on outcomes and delivering quality products for our customers.
Requirements
The UX amp; UI Designer will be:
- Responsible for gathering and evaluating user requirements, in collaboration with product managers and engineers.
- Illustrating design ideas using storyboards, process flows and sitemaps.
- Designing graphic user interface elements, like menus, tabs and widgets.
- Meeting with clients to gather information about their requirements
- Proposing and sketch out a range of visual concepts both on paper and using software applications
- Working on cross-platform applications to develop user experiences covering mobile phones, tablets and computers
- Collaborating with other designers, product design and development teams, business analysts, engineers and project managers
- Liaising regularly with clients to ensure that designs meet their requirements and core business objectives
- Attending meetings to discuss and review progress on the project
- Running workshops for clients and internal stakeholders
- Conducting remote and on-site usability testing with real users to ensure the end-product design provides users with the optimum experience in terms of efficiency, effectiveness and engagement
Ideal Candidates will demonstrate:
- Experience creating user personas, user journeys and site maps
- Experience creating wireframes and prototypes using specialist tools such as Miro and Visio
- Knowledge of agile methodology and can apply an agile mindset to all aspects of your work.
- That you are unafraid to take risks, willing to learn from mistakes and appreciate the importance of agile project delivery for digital projects.
- Ability to make complex and technical information and language simple and accessible for non-technical audiences.
- Ability to visualise, articulate and solve complex problems and concepts, and make disciplined decisions based on available information and research evidence.
- That you know how to move from analysis to synthesis and/or design intent. Such skills include: demonstration of the ability to apply logical thinking, gathering and analysing information and evidencing key performance indicators (KPIs).
- You understand and can work within given constraints (including but not limited to technology and policy, and regulatory, financial and legal constraints).
- You use fundamental principles of visual design (like contrast, alignment, repetition and proximity) to de-clutter user interfaces.
- That you can use the correct user interface 'grammar': e.g., choosing the correct control in an interface, such as checkbox v radio button.
Desirable Skills amp; Experience:
- A knowledge of GDS guidelines and principles.
- Knowledge of tools, languages and methodologies used to deliver data-centric projects
- You know how to lead a team through the different phases of the delivery product life cycle.
- Promote best practice and continued development across the business
This role will require you to have or be willing to go through Security Clearance. As part of the onboarding process candidates will be asked to complete a Baseline Personnel Security Standard; details of the evidence required to apply may be found on the government website Gov.UK. If you are unable to meet this and any associated criteria, then your employment may be delayed, or rejected . Details of