Role Title: Interaction Designer
Duration: 6 months
Location: Remote
Rate: up to £425.25 p/d Umbrella inside IR35
Role purpose / summary
Making Tax Digital (MTD) is fundamentally transforming the UK tax system to use digitally integrated tools. MTD is a key part of the governments ambition for the client to become one of the most digitally advanced tax authorities in the world. MTD will make it easier for businesses, self-employed individuals, and landlords to get their tax right first time by integrating tax into their day-to-day business activities through use of software and digital tools. It will create a single, up-to-date view of a customers tax affairs in one, modern and robust IT System.
An interaction designer works out the best way to let users interact with services, in terms of both overall flow and at the level of individual design elements.
You will be helping users to complete tasks quickly and accurately. Good Interaction Design ensures that users have a positive experience with a product or service. Satisfied users are more likely to continue using a product and recommend it to others.
Key Skills/ requirements
What youll do:
Work collaboratively with user researchers, content designers, service designers and performance analysts as well as with software developers, policy and legal teams
Develop designs based on evidence of user needs and organisational outcomes.
Ensuring that the interface is easy to use and navigate.
Interpret evidence-based research and incorporate this into your work
-Work with the product manager, digital service manager, business analysts and user researchers To refine the services in light of external factors such as changes To policy, legislation, technology or user requirements
What youll need:
A solid understanding of UCD
Ability to build relationships and work effectively within an agile delivery model with colleagues and external providers, for example user researchers and business analysts
Ability to communicate credibly with a wide range of digital delivery disciplines and talent both internally and externally
Keenness to support our ever-expanding team of passionate and skilled junior talent and advocate for mentoring and guiding members of the team and your community
Ability to prototype in multiple different ways, including in code
All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!