User Experience Designer

Tender ID: 557511

Tender Details

Tender #:
DM-24035  
Status:
Closed
Publish Date:
21 May 2024
Closing Date:
04 June 2024

Tender Description

The Sourcing Platforms team at the Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) is responsible for managing the BuyICT platform, which enables Whole of Government digital procurement by hosting the DTA managed marketplaces, panels, and single seller arrangements. The team is seeking a skilled User Experience Designer to enhance the overall functionality and usability of the BuyICT platform. The ideal candidate will possess a strong desire to create engaging and seamless user experiences, ensuring that every interaction is user-friendly and adds value to the user's experience.

Key responsibilities:

  • Collaborating with user researchers and a Product Manager to deeply understand user needs, behaviours, and challenges.
  • Working in tandem with the product manager to grasp requirements and business limitations, while aligning design solutions with strategic goals.
  • Work with other designers to conceptualise and prototype solutions that effectively address core user needs and issues, fostering a collaborative design environment. Iterating designs based on stakeholder feedback and usability testing so that they are ready for development.
  • Ensuring all designs are accessible and adhere to user-centered design principles and accessibility standards.
  • Working closely with developers to understand technical limitations and create detailed interaction specifications for implementation.
  • Maintaining a comprehensive perspective of the user experience to ensure consistency and coherence across the platform.
  • Maintain internal design systems to ensure long-term consistency across the platform.

This role is crucial for someone who is not only passionate about design but also about making a meaningful impact on the user experience, with a flexibility to adapt design fidelity as needed.