{"id":724,"date":"2013-01-28T15:14:36","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T15:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/?p=724"},"modified":"2013-01-28T15:14:36","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T15:14:36","slug":"ux-developer-vacancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/2013\/01\/28\/ux-developer-vacancy\/","title":{"rendered":"UX Developer vacancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Web Development team at the University of Kent is looking for a talented UX Developer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Full details:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/XMlf4f\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/XMlf4f<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Closing date: <\/strong>Sunday 17th February 2013<br \/>\n<strong>Interviews: <\/strong>Tuesday 12th and\/or Thursday 14th March 2013<\/p>\n<p>Do you enjoy developing beautiful and effective web interfaces? Would you relish the challenge of pushing design boundaries within a corporate university identity, and provide excellent user experiences for potential and current students?<\/p>\n<p>The UX Developer is a new post within the Web Development Team at the University of Kent. It offers you a fantastic chance to play a key role in shaping the user experience of the University\u2019s online presence, and the establishment of a framework to ensure on-going brand consistency on the web.<\/p>\n<p>You will be working in an enthusiastic and highly motivated team to design, develop and support key University web systems. You will maintain close relationships with a range of customers and stakeholders across the University to understand their requirements and translate them into attractive, effective, and responsive designs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Person<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You will have a passion for great design.<\/p>\n<p>You should be familiar with current UX theory and practice &#8211; such as responsive design and mobile-first methodology \u2013 and have an understanding of how to shape the user experience to meet their needs. A key skill set will be your ability to determine those needs by planning user testing and gathering usage data.<\/p>\n<p>Your key technical skills will include a good working knowledge of HTML5 and CSS3, and tools such as Adobe Photoshop.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Team<\/strong><br \/>\nWith this role the IS Web Development Team will have 8 people who are responsible for key web systems. They use an agile approach to software development and were nominated for a <a title=\"Agile awards\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/2012\/06\/12\/we-have-been-nominated-for-a-uk-agile-award\/\" target=\"_blank\">UK Agile award in 2012<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you require further information regarding the post or application process please contact Gemma Fussell on <a href=\"mailto:g.fussell@kent.ac.uk\">g.fussell@kent.ac.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Web Development team at the University of Kent is looking for a talented UX Developer. Full details:\u00a0http:\/\/bit.ly\/XMlf4f Closing date: Sunday 17th February 2013 Interviews: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/2013\/01\/28\/ux-developer-vacancy\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":745,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions\/745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}