Interaction Designer - Newcastle

Role: Interaction Designer

Location: Newcastle

Hybrid Working: Please note - This role will require you to work from our Newcastle, Cobalt Business Park office 3 days per week.

As a team:

You will work with creative and passionate UX Design specialists who are responsible for creating user-centred designs for digital products and services.

This is a great opportunity to work across multiple different clients in a range of industries. As a member of our close-knit UX and Design team, you will champion the value of User-Centred Design as part of delivery best practice across all digital products and services.  

In our team you will learn:

• To develop new and existing skills in a wide range of design software.

• Design knowledge, and the ability to design transformational services working closely with our UX & Design Team.

• New ways of collaborative working with our design teams and other specialisms.

As an Interaction Designer, you will:

• Create high quality designs which are clear and accessible.

• Use various design and prototyping software to create user journeys & design components.

• Use user research, data, and feedback to inform your design decisions.

• Collaborate with other teams and specialisms, like Content Designers, User Researchers, Developers, Product, Delivery.

• Report on and present your work, both internally and to client stakeholders.

• Work closely with our UX & Design Team to share knowledge & skills, participate with the design community in community calls and other sessions.

The following skills and experience are essential for this role:

• Relevant experience as an Interaction designer or similar field.

• Working with Design systems/libraries, style guides and existing patterns/guidelines

• You can address the needs of key stakeholders whilst creating a user-centric design & high quality UX experiences.

• Using design software such as Sketch, Figma and InVision.

• Experience with HTML, Markdown, Nunjucks or other prototyping languages.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Experience working in an Agile methodology and as part of a scrum team.

Set yourself apart:

• History of designing for Accessibility & knowledge of WCAG 2.2 standards.

• Examples of contributions of patterns/components to existing design libraries.

What’s in it for you:

At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes 25 days’ vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!

Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the first-class services, we are known for.

Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found.

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About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Visit us at www.accenture.com 

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