Designs the detailed ways people use and move through digital services.
Interaction designers are specialist digital and data professionals who design how people interact with public services.
They determine the best way for users to move through a service and interact with its individual elements, making tasks clear, usable and accessible.
The capabilities required for interaction design combine the seven Universal Public Design Practices with specialist skills in:
Together, these capabilities enable interaction designers to translate user needs and service requirements into effective digital interactions.
Interaction design is a specialism within the Government Digital and Data Profession.
The Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework sets out what interaction designers do and the skills expected at different levels, from associate interaction designer to head of interaction design.
The Government School of Design capability framework has been mapped to the skills for interaction designers in the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework.
The learning pathway comprises:
Students who complete the full pathway will have developed all the skills required to practice as an expert interaction designer in government.