UX Designer (Data Donation Services)

Department

School of Arts and Creative Technologies

Salary

£36,924 - £42,632 per year

Grade

Grade 6

Contract status

Fixed term

Hours of work

Full-time

Based at

University of York campus (with some remote working options available)

Interview date

To be confirmed

Posted Date

17/12/2024

Apply by

15/01/2025

Job Reference

13766

Documents

We seek an outstanding User Experience (UX) Designer for a 3-year fixed term position as part of the Smart Data Donation Service (SDDS). The SDDS is a major infrastructure project funded by Smart Data Research UK, which aims to catalyse a paradigm shift in the quality and accessibility of smart data for research into digital and online experiences (e.g. games, social media). The SDDS will achieve this by creating a service that facilitates the large-scale donation of data by the individuals that it features. This will be made possible due to the UK's GDPR regulations, which allow people to access personal data that companies hold about them and donate it securely for research purposes.

As the successful applicant, you will help to drive profound societal change at a key juncture in online safety and digital wellbeing. You will play a leading role in designing how data donors and researcher users engage with the SDDS's online platform. You will work closely with a user-experience researcher and other project staff to conduct workshops and other activities in order to understand user needs and involve a variety of stakeholders in the design process. You will create information artefacts such as user journey maps, personas and low-fidelity prototypes and concepts that disseminate knowledge to the SDDS project team and to feedback into iterative design processes with stakeholders. You will lead the service, interaction and visual design of the SDDS platform's interfaces, working closely with a team of developers to see your designs translated into an impactful platform that will reach a large and diverse community of end users.

You will have an undergraduate degree in a topic relevant to UX Design (e.g. Design, Digital Media, User-Experience, Computer Science, Creative Technology) or equivalent experience. You will have strong visual, service and interaction design skills; knowledge of UX design principles for creating high quality user interfaces and services; be proficient in using prototyping tools to create designs for interfaces and services using common tooling (e.g. Figma); and have the ability to develop information artefacts (e.g. user journey maps, personas, design fictions) that illustrate and communicate ideas and insights to collaborators and potential users, and to produce design assets for use in production (e.g. using Adobe Creative Suite). You will also have experience of using UX qualitative and quantitative research methods to understand user needs and preferences and to test and evaluate prototype and functional systems, and of delivering projects from initial brief to completion — including planning, execution, analysis and measurable outputs.

Interview date: Early February 2025.

For informal enquiries: please contact Prof. Jonathan Hook on [email protected]

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