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| Job Type | |
| Location | Bernard Weatherill House, 8 Mint Walk, Croydon, |
| Area | London, UK |
| Sector | Digital |
| Salary | £525 Ltd |
| Start Date | ASAP |
| Advertiser | Jackie Fielding |
| Telephone | 07740107091 |
| Job Ref | DOS/Home Office |
- Description
- Interaction Designer
Location - Bernard Weatherill House, 8 Mint Walk, Croydon, CR0 with some travel to London and other locations.
Working arrangementsThe specialist must be onsite at least 4 days a week.
Security clearance Security Cleared (SC) - an application to obtain SC Clearance can be made if SC is not already held but appointment is subject to accreditation
Closing date for applications Monday 6 August 2018 at 4pm
Contract – 6months
Day rate £525 Outside IR35
Essential skills and experience
Demonstrates a deep understanding of interaction and user interface design
Extensive experience of designing elegant, accessible, responsive user interfaces
Confidence in designing at low and high fidelity, including HTML and CSS
An ability to talk about, and advocate for, user-centred design in a way that other people understand
Experience of working with research to inform design decisions
An ability to work autonomously
Experience of working collaboratively in a dynamic agile environment
Nice-to-have skills and experience
Designing in large organizations
Experience of working in government/public sector to Government Service Standards
Police domain knowledge
Summary of the work The interaction designer will work to create a new national police intelligence and data service based on user needs.
The product will be used by police officers and operational staff in UK Police Forces to manage national intelligence data and provide information pertinent to the investigation of crime.
Who the specialist will work with - The specialist will be working as part of the Law Enforcement Data Services (LEDS) programme which is developing a service to replace the current Police National Database and Police National Computer.
LEDS will replace the service that police users find intelligence on at a national level with a new design supported by modernised search capabilities.
The designers will work on the product until it goes live and also work on other LEDS related products.
What the specialist will work on - The specialist will be part of a team that designs the new product for policing intelligence officers and work as part of an agile and user needs led team.
Their work will be informed and iterated based on user needs gathered through research and usability testing. Key patterns and learning developed in this process will be reused in other products.
The role will involve prototyping at different levels of fidelity, from paper to use of GDS design toolkit. There will a need to work with cross-government design community to help define new cross-government interaction design patterns.
