User Experience Designer Role Uk

Specialmoves are a high-end production company servicing the interactive industry. We work with above-the-line and digital agencies providing consultancy and build skills to help them deliver ‘wow’ level interactive projects.

We are looking for a User Experience Designer to join our rapidly growing team. This is not a web design or developers job.

Reporting to the head of User Experience Design, you’ll have a good practical experience of user centred design processes and a solid understanding of web development. You’ll be a problem solver able to research, analyze and design a variety of digital interfaces from traditional websites through to innovative game like applications.

We want someone highly creative who is able to direct and critique all aspects of production work including visual design and animation as part of the total user experience.

Core Activities

• Initiate project vision. Working with clients and internal teams to take initial briefs and turn them into clearly scoped projects
• Understand and analyse complex technical, business and usability requirements and produce timely, effective solutions
• Initiate and perform user research including: stakeholder interviews, user interviews and contextual inquiry
• Create and use, use-cases, user flows and wire-frame documentation
• Design information architectures and initiate interaction design for a diverse range of applications including games, online marketing as well as traditional web build
• Design and perform rapid prototyping, usability tests and eye-tracking studies
• Brief designers and programmers and ensure their work stay true to the project vision

Prerequisites

• Fantastic communication skills and attention to detail
• Proven real world experience of user experience design, information architecture, interaction design, usability or a related field
• Proficiency with common documentation software (Word, Excel, OmniGraffle etc)
• Abilities to make quick and accurate decisions

Above all we’re looking for a team player with a real desire to be a User Experience Designer and create ‘wow’ level interactive experiences.

Salary, start date and contact details

This is a permanent position. We would like you to start as soon as possible.

Salary £25-35k depending on experience

Please send your CV and a brief description about yourself to Bunny Watts (bunny@specialmoves.com)