UX Researcher

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Our Ministry is looking for a UX researcher.

Your role as a UX researcher will be to deliver the best possible experience for the users of a website, making the website as straightforward to use as possible.

As well as researching user behaviour and preference, you'll also look at the content of websites and consider design elements such as colours and images. With some companies you may be given a more technical IT role.

UX researcher roles cross over with that of UX analyst, UX designerand UX architect, and you may be known by any of these titles.

As a UX researcher, you'll need to:

• meet clients via web to gather information about their requirements and to find out what needs researching, designing or usability testing
• be involved in sketching, prototyping and on occasion user testing, before passing the design onto the development team
• understand qualitative research methods
• have an awareness of costs and budgets
• put users at the centre of a design to make it simple, easy to use and good looking
• be confident in your presentation skills in order to present the stages of the design development to business users
• work closely within a multidisciplinary team, including web developers and programmers
• have technical knowledge to be able to explain what needs doing, to programmers
• ensure websites comply with the law and equal opportunities policies.