Interaction Designer

UK-wide
Posted 2 weeks ago

Job Description

What we’re looking for

We’re seeking a dynamic, forward-thinking Interaction Designer with excellent communication skills. You will be open-minded, happy to work on your own or as part of a team and want to learn new technologies and promote best practice.

Our Interaction Designers work as part of multidisciplinary agile scrum teams to deliver high-quality digital services. As an Interaction Designer at Mercator you will work with User Researchers and Frontend Developers, designing in the browser, to deliver highly user-focused and successful services. You will produce design concepts for digital services, often working to very tight deadlines, and work with Frontend Developers to implement those concepts.

Minimum 2 years experience please. Salary from £30,000-£72,000 depending on experience.

About us

Mercator Digital is an award-winning digital consultancy, ranked at number four among the Best Medium Sized Workplaces in the UK and recognised as one of Europe’s top 100 Best Workplaces. We’re also celebrated for our commitment to employee wellbeing, professional development, diversity and excellence in tech.

Leveraging nearly 20 years’ experience, Mercator Digital designs, builds, and delivers innovative digital services for clients across the public and private sectors worldwide. With a global presence spanning the UK, US, France, and Singapore, the Mercator team comprises over 400 specialists.

We provide an environment where talented professionals can grow, collaborate, and deliver innovative solutions that make digital services more innovative, effective, and accessible for all.

Team Mercator

This is an exciting time to join Mercator Digital. We’re growing fast – opening new offices, expanding our teams, and creating new opportunities for development. We’re proud of our culture – one that’s lively, inclusive, and forward-thinking. As we grow, preserving our culture remains a priority. That’s why we have an annual survey for feedback, an open-door policy for communication, plenty of social events to foster connections, and a benefits package to show our appreciation.

Our brand values are at the core of who we are, and each Mercator team member lives these values as brand ambassadors:

·      We don’t stand still

We’re always evolving, making bold choices, and seeking improvement.

·      We keep it real

We’re straightforward, open, and honest in everything we do.

·      We take care

We support each other, our work, our clients, and partners.

·      It’s a joint effort

We work together, trust each other, and build strength in unity.

·      We own our actions

We empower accountability for our words, actions, and results.

·      We bring out the best

We share knowledge and enthusiasm, helping everyone reach their fullest potential.

Job type

Full time, permanent. We encourage those who may need a more agile approach to the structure of their working day to apply; we are always willing to discuss flexible options where we can.

Location

You’ll be expected to travel to our customer’s site and potentially sites UK wide; working from client/office/home locations as appropriate.

As an Interaction Designer you will:

  • Work within agile delivery teams to produce and implement high-quality design concepts for digital services.
  • Work with User Researchers to ensure all output, internal and external, is well designed and user focused.
  • Design and deliver consistent, user focused communication material.
  • Partner with colleagues to ensure a consistent user experience across services, including designing reusable elements of a digital service.
  • Build relationships and work effectively within an agile delivery model with colleagues and external providers, for example User Researchers and Business Analysts.
  • Deliver high quality digital service designs that meet web standards, ensuring that compliance with accessibility standards is built into designs from the outset.
  • Communicate credibly with a wide range of digital delivery disciplines internally and externally.
  • Participate in the wider Interaction Design community (outside of Mercator), building relationships with other designers, identifying learning opportunities and best practices we can adopt.

Knowledge/experience Skills

You will need: 

  • Core skills: sketching, design production, hand-coded HTML & CSS and rapid prototyping.
  • Proven experience of designing interfaces and transaction flows for the web.
  • Ability to prototype for the web & design in browser.
  • A good basic understanding of web technologies and how they affect design, including accessibility.
  • Experience of web and mobile application interface design.
  • Experience of responsive web interactions design for mobile devices.
  • Experience of researching design with users.
  • Service design experience, including user journey mapping.
  • Experience working within an agile, multi-disciplinary team environment, and the ability to deliver iterative design components (including user journeys) to the development team

In return you’ll receive

  • Above market rate (dependent on experience)
  • 25 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays and your birthday off)
  • Company pension
  • Group life cover
  • Training budget
  • Enhanced maternity/paternity package
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • 2 days paid volunteering days
  • We also offer an electric vehicle scheme and cycle to work scheme

*Applicants must have the right to work in the UK and the ability to pass BPSS vetting

To apply for this job please visit www.mercatordigital.com.

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