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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Interaction Designer - **Company:** Be Applied Ltd. - **Location:** Leeds, UK (Remote available) - **Salary:** £40,000.0 - £46,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Adobe InDesign, Interaction Design - **Published:** September 12, 2026 - **Apply:** https://app.beapplied.com/apply/8jyk21fvq3 ## About the Role You care about improving public services and designing digital products that work well for the people who rely on them., * Have demonstrable experience designing digital products or services, ideally in multidisciplinary teams. * Are confident using interaction, UX and/or product design practices. * Can create prototypes using a range of tools and approaches at appropriate fidelity. * Put users first and understand how to design for accessibility and inclusion. * Can explain complex ideas and processes clearly through visuals and conversation. * Are comfortable collaborating with others and involving them in design work. * Are organised, able to prioritise your work and manage your time effectively. * Are committed to continuous learning and self-improvement. ## Description As an Interaction Designer at dxw, you'll be a hands-on designer working in multidisciplinary teams to design accessible, user-centred public services. You'll help shape interfaces and interactions across digital services so they are usable, inclusive and effective across channels and support options, including assistive technologies. This is a practitioner role suited to someone with experience in interaction, UX or product design. You'll contribute directly to client delivery, working closely with user researchers, content designers, developers and delivery colleagues. You'll be expected to take ownership of your design work, collaborate openly with others and involve teams and clients in the design process. You'll typically spend most of your time on client-facing project work, contributing design expertise across different phases - from discovery and strategy through to beta and live - while continuing to develop your craft with support from the wider design community at dxw. We value diverse perspectives and encourage people with a broad range of experience to apply. We are particularly interested in candidates with experience within the health and justice sectors., Interaction design and prototyping * Design accessible, user-centred interfaces to support people's interactions with systems and services * Create prototypes at appropriate levels of fidelity - from paper sketches to design tool prototypes and simple coded prototypes - to support exploration and testing. * Use evidence, research findings and design experience to make sound design decisions. * Select appropriate design tools and methods based on the team, project context and desired outcomes. Working in multidisciplinary teams * Work as part of multidisciplinary teams, collaborating with user researchers, content designers, developers and delivery leads. * Interpret and help communicate research findings through design artefacts and prototypes. * Facilitate and contribute to workshops and co-design sessions, involving the wider team and clients in design activities. * Contribute to projects of different sizes and types - from large delivery teams designing interfaces to smaller strategy engagements exploring new possibilities. Accessibility and inclusive design * Put user needs first throughout the design process, with a strong focus on accessibility and inclusive design. * Design services that work across channels and support options, including assistive technologies. * Ensure designs support long-term sustainability and continuous improvement by client organisations. Communication and collaboration * Communicate complex ideas and design decisions clearly, visually and verbally, to colleagues and clients. * Give and receive constructive feedback and challenge ideas in a supportive way. * Contribute to telling the story of our work through design outputs that help clients and teams understand problems and solutions. Contributing to practice at dxw * Share learning, successes and failures with the design community at dxw. * Support continuous improvement in design practice and ways of working. * Take responsibility for your own learning and professional development., As part of our process, we'll ask you to provide written answers to a few short questions related to the work you'd do on the job. Our hiring panel will review these anonymously. If you score well, we'll then review your CV and invite you to an initial chat to get the ball rolling. 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