Interaction Designer in Edinburgh

Grade: HEO; Total remuneration: £47,590 to £54,482; Pay Supplement: base salary for this role is £41,026-£46,968. This job qualifies for Digital, Data and Technology Annual Pay supplement 16% is included in the total remuneration above. Pension: 28.97% of salary (RoS contribution). Annual leave: 38 days annual holiday, increasing to 42 days with length of service. Duration: Permanent. Working Pattern: 35 hours per week, flexible employer open to compressed hours, term‑time working or part‑time. Location: Hybrid working model at Meadowbank House, Edinburgh (EH8 7AU) or St Vincent Plaza, Glasgow (G2 5LD). Department: User Centred Design – UX team. Directorate: Digital, Data and Technology. Role Reports to: Senior User Researcher. Closing date: 10 of May. Number of vacancies: 1.

Join an award‑winning organisation recognised for its technology and innovation. Registers of Scotland is a world‑leading pioneer in land and property registration. Our full‑stack teams design, architect, and build all our registration products in‑house. We work to create digital solutions for the people of Scotland. You will get an opportunity to nurture your creativity and develop with us through access to the latest data, software engineering and product delivery techniques.

The Role: Join Registers of Scotland as an Interaction Designer and help shape inclusive, user‑centered digital services that make a real difference. You'll design and improve services that support key moments in people’s lives, using fresh thinking and leading‑edge technology to enhance how members of the public and business customers interact with Registers of Scotland.

On a typical day you will:

• Work with UCD colleagues and other internal stakeholders to design and deliver inclusive, accessible services that meet the needs of all our customers and colleagues.
• Work with user experience researchers to clearly articulate and use evidence to inform and develop a design idea.
• Collaborate with the Senior Interaction Designer and contribute to design reviews based on user needs.
• Create prototypes at different fidelities to explore designs, collaborating with the Senior Interaction Designer and other colleagues.
• Help to ensure RoS services meet appropriate design and accessibility standards, for example GDS and Scot Gov design standards and pass WCAG accessibility criteria.
• Undertake appropriate training and development opportunities as advised by the Senior Interaction Designer or line manager.
• Participate in and contribute to our UCD Community of Practice.
• Explain the value of using design patterns and components in design.

Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver end‑to‑end design solutions that satisfy user needs.
• Produce quality journey flows, wireframes and prototypes that meet user needs.
• Manage design work effectively in an agile environment.
• Apply accessibility and design standards consistently across services.

Essential Criteria – Skills and Attributes for Success:

• Demonstrable experience within Interaction Design, ideally designing end‑to‑end user journeys, applying components from a shared design system to create clear, consistent screens with the right balance of content and UI elements.
• Working knowledge of GDS, Scot Gov or an equivalent organisation’s embedded design system.
• Working knowledge of accessibility standards for example WCAG 2.2.
• Some knowledge of coding e.g. HTML, CSS, SASS and JS to help design and guide consistent content and layouts throughout our multiple sites and services.
• Some experience working with and willingness to learn more about prototyping tools and methods, such as Axure or Figma.
• An understanding of how design ops can support the development and maintenance of a UI library and front‑end frameworks, supporting the development of the RoS design system.
• Aware of new emerging technologies affecting the digital design industry.

• Develop and improve designs using research, customer feedback and service insight.
• Test and refine ideas through iterative design and prototyping.
• Explain design decisions and concepts clearly and persuade stakeholders to adopt them.

• Be confident in presenting design ideas to UCD colleagues and other project stakeholders, including developers.
• Readiness to explain the value of UCD and the importance of design standards.
• Confident in using research evidence to influence design decisions.

• Work closely with interaction & content designers, user researchers, developers, business analysts and product managers.
• Contribute to workshops, design crits and UCD community activity.
• Build positive relationships across teams and disciplines.

• Produce quality journey flows, wireframes and prototypes that meet user needs.
• Manage design work effectively in an agile environment.
• Apply accessibility and design standards consistently across services.

Equality, diversity and inclusion: As a proud member of the Disability Confident Scheme, we welcome applications from disabled candidates. We especially welcome applications from underrepresented groups – people who are disabled, minoritised ethnic groups, and younger people (16‑24 years of age). Please see our EDI strategy for more information.

Nationality and immigration status: In general, only nationals from the following countries (and associations of countries) are eligible for employment in the Civil Service: the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, and the Commonwealth. EU nationals (with settled or pre‑settled status), certain EEA nationals, Swiss and Turkish nationals are also eligible for employment.