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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Interaction Designer - **Company:** MaPS - **Location:** Bedford, UK (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** £65,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Adobe Analytics, Adobe Creative Cloud, Design of User Interfaces, Interaction Design, Scrum Methodology, User Interface Testing, User-Centered Design, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, Website Wireframe, Figma, Front End Software Development, Interactive Whiteboards - **Published:** June 29, 2026 - **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=2b7891690aa39423 ## About the Role Do you have experience in Web design?, * Solid interaction design experience (likely to be 5 years or more). Some of this may have been in an adjacent role, such as graphic or UI design, frontend development, product management or customer- or academic research. * Comfortable working on projects with several stakeholders in a complex, matrix organisation. * Experience working in a multi-disciplinary scrum team, ideally in an organisation employing SAFe principles. * Experience creating and maintaining a design roadmap based on the overall product roadmap. * Able to balance project work with initiatives to improve the practice of interaction design at MaPS. * Experience with Figma, Miro, and Adobe Creative Cloud or equivalent tools. * Experience designing to meet WCAG 2.2 Level AA accessibility guidelines. * A basic understanding of accessible, cross-browser front-end development to inform high quality, implementable solutions. * Experience with mobile-first, responsive website design. * Experience of working with content rich and/or data-intensive websites, ideally for a consumer audience. * Experience in the public sector or other regulated field (e.g. financial services, medicine, law). ## Description Join us at the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) as a Senior Interaction Designer. As a Senior Interaction Designer at Money and Pensions Service (MaPS), you will be responsible for improving engagement, customer satisfaction and ultimately the financial wellbeing of millions of people across the UK, particularly those with vulnerabilities. Working within a multi-disciplinary team, you will use your interaction design skills to ensure our digital products and services are desirable, effective, usable, accessible and inclusive. You will also work with the rest of UCD team to champion and evolve the practice of user centred design at MaPS and align it with the GDS Service Standard. Your design skills and experience will help MaPS achieve our mission of helping everyone in the UK make the most of their money and pensions. This role is aligned with DDaT Senior interaction designer - https://www.gov.uk/guidance/interaction-designer#senior-interaction-designer We don't require a portfolio, but if you have one we'd love to see it. If not, we'd like a short statement (up to 500 words - less is fine) highlighting specific projects or experience which demonstrate the skills and abilities in this job description. You will be leading the design of a service which helps people, including those with vulnerabilities, use complicated financial information to take positive action. So we are especially interested in examples which involve one or more of: * Making difficult information accessible and compelling to non-experts * A large, content-heavy website * Working to the GDS service standard * Working for a public sector organisation * Working in a financial services or other regulated environment, * Leading workshops, reviews, critiques and handovers. * Helping evolve and champion the interaction design practice within MaPS. * Building interaction design capacity within a multi-functional team by sharing insights, principles and best practices with non-designers. * Collaborating with a cross functional team to implement the user experience vision for MaPS's digital channels. * Advising and teaching colleagues of all levels in your areas of special expertise. * Helping internal colleagues and external delivery partners define and evolve agile ways of working. * Identifying, understanding and mitigating the ways design decisions and processes may negatively impact users, especially those who are vulnerable or experience some form of exclusion. * Working with Business Analysts, Policy and Proposition Managers, and Product Managers to understand business requirements and ensure they are addressed in your designs. * Collaborating with relevant internal teams to ensure our services meet MaPS, DWP and GDS standards for suitability, efficacy, usability, accessibility, quality, security and data protection. * Building prototypes for testing and review. * Identifying and prioritising design assumptions. * Helping user researchers to plan research to gain the insights needed to advance the design. * Working with user researchers and performance analysts to use analytics, customer feedback and other internal and external data to identify areas for improvement and inform designs. * Conducting user experience audits, heuristic evaluations, competitive reviews and other desk research. * Creating and socialising experience maps, process flows and other design artefacts to understand and communicate the customer journey. * Creating design documentation and assets including sketches, wireframes, low and high-fidelity prototypes, sitemaps & specification documents. * Helping Product Owners, Policy and Proposition Managers, and Omnichannel Analysts define KPIs and measure the success of our website against them * Performing design quality assurance on the final delivered product or service. ## Related Videos - [Preventing Accessibility Issues Instead Of Fixing Them](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/804-preventing-accessibility-issues-instead-of-fixing-them) - [Boost Productivity with AI: Figma & Playwright MCP Workflows - Aris Markogiannakis](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1768-boost-productivity-with-ai-figma-playwright-mcp-workflows-aris-markogiannakis) - [3x Performance: A Humbling Journey](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100165-3x-performance-a-humbling-journey) - [Coffee with Developers - Cassidy Williams - ](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/912-coffee-with-developers-cassidy-williams) - [Fireside Chat with Kris Rasmussen, CTO at Figma](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/982-fireside-chat-with-kris-rasmussen-cto-at-figma) - [Learn Enough Design to Be Dangerous](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/577-learn-enough-design-to-be-dangerous) ## Related Articles - [How Developers Can Focus on Maintaining Satisfaction With Accessibility](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/109-how-developers-can-focus-on-maintaining-satisfaction-with-accessibility) - [Dev Digest 133 - Back to Front](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/474-dev-digest-133-back-to-front) - [16 Best Free React UI Libraries in 2025](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/148-16-best-free-react-ui-libraries-in-2025) - [Top 5 Web Design Trends for 2023](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/155-top-5-web-design-trends-for-2023) - [Frontend Developer Salary in The UK](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/233-frontend-developer-salary-in-the-uk) - [Top 7 CSS Frameworks in 2025](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/362-top-7-css-frameworks-in-2025)