Interaction Designer

Come along and meet us at our virtual recruitment event in Manchester on Friday 28th June. It’s a great chance to connect, meet and potentially get hired. Here at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC), we work on things that make a real difference to people’s lives. Find out more about what it's like to work in a digital, data and technology role at DLUHC including our culture, ways of working, career progression and staff benefits. You can also read the DLUHC Digital blog to learn about the work we're doing. This role will initially be a 23-month fixed-term contract and based in our Manchester office where we offer a hybrid-approach to working. What you’ll do as an Interaction Designer research, design and test clear, usable and inclusive ways for citizens to interact with our digital services map and examine user journeys to develop appropriate designs that meet user needs prototype design ideas using appropriate tools at different fidelities design inclusive ways for all users to achieve their goals regardless of their access needs work closely with service designers, user researchers,, and developers to build services that solve the whole problem for a user take part in designing and conducting user research to develop, test and iterate multiple design ideas follow the GOV.UK Design system, the Service Manual and the GOV.UK Style guide have a deep understanding of the design components and patterns in the different services experience of designing clear and usable interfaces that meet user needs experience of using Figma or similar tools to develop, illustrate and test new experience journeys experience of designing inclusive services that meet a wide range of access needs experience of working closely with others in multidisciplinary teams to collaboratively develop, test and iterate multiple design ideas confident in giving and receiving constructive feedback on user centred design ideas adept at leading collaborative design activities experience planning and doing continuous user research in a multidisciplinary team will be essential, as will the experience of involving your team in research activities, analysis, and synthesis What we’re looking for