Lead Interaction Designer
The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) has a clear mission - to grow the economy. Our role is to help businesses invest, grow and export to create jobs and opportunities right across the country. We do this in three ways.
Firstly, we help to build a strong, competitive business environment, where consumers are protected and companies rewarded for treating their employees properly.
Secondly, we open international markets and ensure resilient supply chains. This can be through Free Trade Agreements, trade facilitation and multilateral agreements.
Finally, we work in partnership with businesses every day, providing advance, finance and deal-making support to those looking to start up, invest, export and grow.
The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) has a clear mission - to grow the economy. Our role is to help businesses invest, grow and export to create jobs and opportunities right across the country. We do this in three ways.
Firstly, we help to build a strong, competitive business environment, where consumers are protected and companies rewarded for treating their employees properly.
Secondly, we open international markets and ensure resilient supply chains. This can be through Free Trade Agreements, trade facilitation and multilateral agreements.
Finally, we work in partnership with businesses every day, providing advance, finance and deal-making support to those looking to start up, invest, export and grow.
The Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) directorate develops and operates tools and services to support us in this mission. The team have been nominated three times in a row for ‘Best Public Sector Employer’ at the Women in Tech awards!
As a Lead Interaction Designer at DBT you will work 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 work in a multidisciplinary team, alongside user researchers, content designers, product managers and technology experts.As a team, you will develop innovative approaches for digital products that are part of integrated services across DBT.
To be effective in this position, you will need to understand the needs of users and stakeholders and be able to communicate this in an engaging way, whether this is by creating prototypes to test an idea and inspire the team and stakeholders or creating design patterns that can be used across our services to ensure consistency and scalability. Main responsibilitiesYou will be:
- Develop user-centred design patterns and services based on user needs.
- Create and iterate prototypes to test and communicate ideas effectively.
- Collaborate with user researchers and front-end developers to bring concepts to life.
- Explain design decisions to both technical and non-technical audiences, influenced by user research.
- Embrace constructive feedback and provide valuable reviews of others' work.
- Ensure design consistency within the team and across GOV.UK.
- Integrate accessibility and usability from the start, adhering to web standards and GDS/GOV.UK principles and advocating for inclusive design, ensuring accessibility for all users, including those with non-digital needs.
- Consistently advocate for user centred design across an organisation and promote across government organisations to adopt user-centred practices.