Industrial Placement 2025- Interaction Design

at  Met Office

Job Introduction
The Met Office is delighted to open our advertising for a number of Industrial Placements, which will commence from July 2025 until July 2026.
We’re looking for an Interaction Design - Industrial Placement to help us make a difference to our planet.
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Met Office on a 12-month Year in Industry placement, developing your skills and knowledge and ensuring you gain the most value possible from your experience with us. You will have the opportunity to network with our cohort of Industrial Placements all over the Met Office and understand what career opportunities we can offer you after you graduate.
As our Interaction Design - Industrial Placement the job may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in the office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and the location advertised will be your contractual place of work.
Our opportunity is full time, 37 hours per week. Our people are at the heart of what we do and we’ll do our best to agree a working pattern that works for everyone.

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Awareness of prototyping. You can explain what prototyping is, and why and when to use it and are passionate about putting this into practice.
• Evidence-based design: You are passionate about creating designs for digital products and understand the value of using evidence to inform design decisions.
• Agile thinking. You understand the benefits of agile working and the different roles in a multidisciplinary team. You are aligned with the value ‘we keep evolving’ and are willing to iterate your work.
• User focus and advocacy. You can explain how user-centred practices can be used to build products that ‘keep evolving’ to changing user behaviour and needs. You are willing to champion a user-focused approach with your colleagues.
• Better together. You are able to communicate effectively with stakeholders and team members and present design decisions and ideas. You can be an active member and advocate of the user-centred design community.

• Enabling interaction designers by maintaining design systems and guidance documentation
• Supporting with design activities such as ideation sessions, wireframing and prototyping
• Aiding in the analysis and synthesis of user research data
• Recommending and documenting design decisions based on user evidence and best practice
• Follow direction to create prototypes to demonstrate and test potential solutions