The King’s Digital Lab (KDL -   https://kdl.kcl.ac.uk) is a Research Software Engineering team embedded within King’s College, London’s Faculty of Arts and Humanities. Our software development allows researchers from a variety of disciplines to achieve their goals by designing and implementing systems, infrastructure, tools, and processes needed to produce a heterogeneous range of high quality digital scholarly outputs. We build resources designed to answer questions, store content, publish results, and push the boundaries of computationally-intensive research.  As a digital humanities and social science research laboratory, KDL is deeply committed to co-research and is constantly evolving as new tools and methods appear. We have an open, collaborative culture, both within the Lab and with our research partners.

We integrate design throughout our projects, from initial requirements assessments and at each stage of development. We aim for a design-first approach, in support of our belief that digital tools and methods should be both instinctively usable and elegant.

The Research Software UI/UX Designer will work with analysts, developers, clients, and stakeholders throughout the research process, from design concept to technical development delivery. You will have the opportunity to expand your skills, working with new and emerging technologies across multiple disciplines and sectors. You will develop requirements and evaluate the technical feasibility of different development approaches, and then implement them in partnership with technical teams. This will involve designing and developing accessible user interferences and data visualisations for search intensive and highly interactive research projects in digital humanites, social sciences, cultural heritage. Future projects will include designing for areas such as immersive experiences and augmented reality, so experience in this area would be beneficial. Working with the rest of the KDL design team, you will contribute to the consolidation of the design workflow for the lab, as well as at College level. You will be able to work with institutional brand specialists and external design teams. Your skills will include strengths with industry design products such as Adobe Creative Suite (or equivalent) software, and solid technical understanding of HTML, CSS, Javascript and relevant technical frameworks. You will be familiar with accessibility web standards qualitative user testing approaches and processes. Your focus will be on maximizing both the end user experience and the impact and quality of digital research publications. An understanding of design, data analysis, and visualization will be important, along with an ability to present information in a readable and transparent manner.

You will have demonstrable experience working on web/digital projects. Knowledge of digital humanities and/or digital social science and/or research development in a higher education context would be welcome but is not essential. 

KDL supports an inclusive culture and celebrates the diversity of our team. We are committed to encouraging further appointments from diverse groups, and we look forward to welcoming applicants of all cultures and abilities, supported by flexible and varied working practices.

This post will be offered on an a fixed-term contract for 18 months

This is a part-time post - 50% full time equivalent