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We are looking for a web designer to join the Torpedo UX team. As the ideal candidate, you will be demonstrably passionate about pushing the creative boundaries, with a web-based portfolio showcasing your skills. You have experience designing in the browser using web standards HTML, CSS and JavaScript. You are immersed in design best-practice and know your theory inside-out: gestalt design principles, typography, layout and colour theory. You know your way around modern responsive web standards and the web accessibility initiative. You are well versed in modular component-based design systems and whilst you prefer to get straight under the hood with code, Figma is a core part of your design collaboration toolset.

You prefer to use real content in your designs, accepting that the people maintaining the content are less likely to have an appreciation for pixel-perfect layout. You always design for edge cases, errors and optimise for performance. You have plenty of experience designing for content management systems such as Wordpress and Drupal. You have adopted a mobile-first approach to designing web interfaces. You love being a part of a multi-disciplinary team that includes UX designers, developers, content designers and digital project managers.

You care deeply about user experience and carefully balance the need to meet and exceed client expectations using bleeding-edge animations with highly accessible and usable interfaces. You can clearly and confidently explain your rationale for making design decisions and accept that it is often more important to get something out than to get it perfect. You’re not afraid to get out of your comfort zone and push the creative boundaries.

You have attended industry events such as informal meetups, hack-days, and conferences. You may have written blog articles and comments to contribute to the community discussion and are keen to share your learnings with others. You actively seek feedback on your performance and are an advocate for continuous improvement.

About the role

Working as a part of the Web and UX department, within in the UX team you are the sole Web Designer, bridging the gap between UX/UI designers, front-end and back-end developers. You are responsible for creating original designs and designs using our in-house design system. With your UX team-mates you are also responsible for evolving and extending our design system and those that we create for our clients.

Whilst the UX/UI designers work across web and non-web projects, your role is specialising in web design. You will work closely with both UX/UI designers and front-end developers on web projects, often sharing similar duties.

Your duties include, but are not limited to:

Creating creative and engaging web page designs from scratch or on top of existing design systems.

Evolving and expanding the existing design system.

Hand-coding HTML, CSS and Javascript and designing in the browser.

Experimenting with and advising on new web technologies and techniques.

Maintaining and updating existing web pages.

Creating HTML email templates.

Creating original design concepts in Figma.

Working with existing Figma component libraries to construct landing pages for clients.

Reviewing Figma UI designs for feasibility, identifying potential issues.

Peer review and QA testing of Figma designs and front-end developments.

Giving timely updates on progress via Jira and Teams.

Creating documentation to support designs.

Advising and educating colleagues across Torpedo of best practice.

Blogging about your work on the Torpedo blog.

Attending team workshops and events in-person, in the office.

Providing time estimates for work.

Completing your timesheet in a timely manner.

Adherence to company, technical and legal standards including brand guidelines, accessibility and GDPR.

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