Information Systems Specialist UX/UI Designer

Overview

As a UX/UI Designer in Sheffield City Council’s Digital Services, you will help shape accessible, user‑centred digital experiences across Websites, intranet, and online services. You’ll work in a multidisciplinary team with researchers, designers and developers to translate evidence into practical design solutions. You’ll improve user journeys, ensure mobile‑first, responsive interfaces, and uphold accessibility standards to serve residents, businesses and staff. You will lead UX/UI improvement projects and contribute to design systems and reusable patterns to scale great digital services.

Pay / Benefits

• flexible working opportunities
• generous holiday entitlement
• guaranteed interview scheme

Responsibilities

• Design user‑centred experiences that simplify complex processes and ensure accessibility
• Utilise user research, analytics and stakeholder feedback to improve journeys and interfaces
• Develop concepts, flows, wireframes and prototypes into implementation‑ready designs
• Create responsive, mobile‑first interfaces across devices
• Ensure accessibility in line with WCAG and assistive technologies
• Apply design systems, patterns and style guidelines consistently
• Collaborate with developers to ensure accurate delivery of design intentions
• Lead UX/UI improvement projects across websites, intranets and internal systems
• Contribute to design systems, component libraries and reusable patterns

Key requirements

• Experience in UX/UI design for digital services across end‑to‑end user journeys
• Ability to plan and deliver user‑centred design activities based on evidence and business needs
• Experience creating concepts, flows, wireframes, prototypes and high‑fidelity designs
• Ability to analyse user research, analytics and feedback to provide insights
• Strong presentation of design concepts to diverse stakeholders
• Experience using Figma for design solutions
• Experience with design systems and applying patterns for consistency
• Experience working with developers to provide assets and support implementation
• Experience designing responsive, mobile‑first interfaces across devices
• Experience designing for both public‑facing and internal systems
• Knowledge of WCAG and accessible design principles

• Collaborative working style
• Strong communication and ability to explain design concepts to stakeholders
• User‑centred mindset and ability to translate research into design decisions
• Figma
• Design systems
• Prototyping (wireframes to high‑fidelity designs)

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