UI Designer

Role overview:

UI Designer
Waterloo - Hybrid Working
Full Time
Permanent
Grade 3

At Currys we’re united by one passion: to help everyone enjoy amazing technology. As the UK’s best-known retailer of tech, we’re proud of the service our customers receive – and it’s all down to our team of 25,000 caring and committed colleagues. Working as one team, we learn and grow together, celebrating the big and small moments that make every day amazing.

We are looking for a talented User Interface Designer to join our UI team within the Currys UX & Digital Design Team. Our friendly and collaborative team work together to create simple yet beautiful design experiences for our omnichannel customers. From homepage to basket, you will be directly inputting into the designs our customers experience when buying our amazing technology.

Role overview:

• Be a great team player, working with agile teams and collaborating closely with UX architects, developers, copywriters and other senior stakeholders
• Transform UX wireframes and other design briefs into pixel-perfect visual designs for hand-off to development teams
• Understand how to balance customer needs with the KPIs of the business in a fast-paced retail environment
• Present and defend designs to all levels of the business, taking feedback on board to iterate and improve design output
• Work alongside UX Architects in understanding user research and evaluating user feedback to inform design decisions
• Use and contribute to our design system, ensuring designs are consistent and aligned to overall brand look and feel
• Understand best practices and standards in design methodologies and processes, including accessibility

Desired Skills:

• Demonstrable experience of creating user-focused UI designs with a portfolio to prove it, showing your design process and covering all responsive device sizes
• Exceptional design skills and attention to detail
• Experience using brand guidelines and UI design systems
• Being up to date with the latest UI trends, techniques and technologies
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a positive outlook to tackle challenging design problems
• Good working knowledge of Agile and Scrum development methodologies, including UAT
• Knowledge of user testing and how it can help in rapidly optimising the user experience
• Proficiency in Figma (including creating prototypes), Zeplin, and Jira

Required Experience:

• Familiarity with building and maintaining design systems
• Knowledge of Photoshop, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Background in retail environment
• Experience working with offshore development teams

Why join us:

Join our team and we'll be with you every step of the way, helping you develop the career you want with new opportunities, on-going training and skills for life.

Not only can you shape your own future, but you can help take charge of ours too. As the biggest recycler and repairer of tech in the UK, we’re in a position to make a real impact on people and the planet.

Every voice has a space at our table and we're committed to making inclusion and diversity part of everything we do, including how we strengthen our workforce. We want to make sure you have a fair opportunity to show us your talents during our application process, so if you need any additional assistance with your application please email [email protected] and we'll do our best to help.