UXI/UI Designer

Overview

Role: UXI/UI Designer

Role ID: 2023-2009

Location: UK Flexible/Remote Working

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.

Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company, listed on the London Stock Exchange. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.

Working here

You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.

We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on.  Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.

Work life balance

We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.

What to expect

Ease of use is an imperative, and as a UX designer, you'll ensure that the user experience for individuals is as efficient and satisfying as possible. You'll be involved in the design of digital products and services for specific target groups and end users and will need to understand stakeholder motivations as well as members of the public.

You'll work collaboratively with other members of the digital team in an agile (scrum) environment including members of the wider business to ensure that products and services meet client needs.

We offer you training time on the job, and you'll need to be willing to learn how to use specialist software and keep your knowledge and skills up to date in this fast paced role. You’ll appreciate that it's vital to keep an eye on emerging trends so that you're always one step ahead in terms of design practice and the user's experience.

You'll collaborate with other designers, developers and testers, working as a team to complete a project. You may have to travel to meet clients and international travel may be required occasionally.

About you

You'll have a portfolio of digital design work to showcase including sketches, wireframes, user journeys, use cases and prototypes. Your experience enables you to thrive in a creative and pressured environment. With web design and HTML coding experience combined with usability testing of websites, you’ll be adept at formulating user journeys that support non-technical users to navigate data and information and achieve their intended goals.

As a UX designer, you’ll have broad experience across different sectors including private companies, and public bodies ideally with an environmental and sustainability focus. These can range from large multinational companies to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) working for a range of clients on different projects.

You'll preferably be degree level educated, with a keen interest in web and software applications design. Degree subjects that include design, computing, apps development or digital media and technology options are particularly useful but not essential. However, if you're self-taught and competent in HTML and the software used in UX work, we will welcome your application.

Key responsibilities

As a UX designer, you'll handle the full spectrum of users' impressions and interactions for a range of different clients and solutions. You’ll create engaging, visually appealing and easy to navigate user journeys for our environmental sector client web solutions, and work on government websites and secure web portals aimed at providing information and advice to the public and stakeholders respectively.

You'll have demonstrable experience in the following:

• Engaging with clients to gather information about their requirements.
• propose and sketch out a range of visual concepts both on paper and using software applications.
• create user personas, user journeys and site maps.
• translate concepts into wireframes, prototypes and user flows using specialist tools such as Miro, AdobeXD, Balsamiq, and Visio
• work on cross-platform applications to develop user experiences covering mobile phones, tablets and computers.
• work collaboratively with other designers, product design and development teams, business analysts, scrum teams and project managers.
• liaise regularly with clients to ensure that designs meet their requirements and core business objectives.
• attend meetings to discuss and review progress on the project.
• run workshops for clients and internal stakeholders.
• work with the scrum team to plan and conduct remote and on-site user research and usability testing with real users to ensure the end-product design provides users with the optimum experience in terms of efficiency, effectiveness and engagement.
• write reports and communicate the results of your work.
• identify areas for improvement.
• redesign websites to make them more responsive.
• redesign or create mobile apps that are easy to use and configured appropriately for smartphones and tablets.
• keep up to date with technological innovations and new tools.

Desirable

• excellent problem-solving skills
• to be a concept thinker with a keen visual awareness and aptitude with specialist software design programmes.
• an interest in, and knowledge of, coding and design principles
• effective communication skills to liaise with team members and clients, ensuring that high quality end-user designs meet customer requirements.
• empathy with the customer so that you can understand what they want from the website or software application.
• excellent written communication skills, with an eye for detail
• design and spatial skills to gauge the usability of the website or application.
• an aptitude for using a logical, step-by-step approach to ensure designs are user friendly and simple for end users.
• a high level of concentration and resilience to stay focused on a project to the end and meet client deadlines.
• an open, flexible and adaptable mindset to cope with a rapidly changing set of tasks and project requirements.
• the ability to engage well with our environmental specialists.
• a willingness to keep up to date with software applications and new techniques in a rapidly changing profession.

Benefits

We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health.

Our core benefits include 25 days' annual leave, plus 8 flexible bank holidays, a competitive company pension scheme, life assurance and professional subscriptions reimbursement. We also offer a wide range of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle.

Next steps

Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.

Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit.ee@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.