Experience

Experience

Nov 2020 to now
DLUHC, DWP Digital, Planning Inspectorate

Freelance Interaction Designer (Gov contractor)

Planning Inspectorate - Created back office prototype for Appeals. Met GDS Beta assessment, launched pilot with Barnet Council.
DHLUC & TPX Impact
- Prototypes and journey maps for planning.data.gov.uk
DWP Digital  - Designed a case manager review process for PIP.

May 2016 - Oct 2020
Polecat Intelligence | Bristol

Lead User Experience Designer

Designed interface for RepVault the company's core product from initial sketches to final design. Created Polecat Hub interfaces and prepared style guide, product tours, user journeys and personalisation.

Dec 2013 - Apr 2016
Muddy Boots Software | Bristol & Ross on Wye

Visual and UX Design Lead

Ensuring the consistent look and feel across the company's product range by continuously reviewing, testing and recommending ideas to improve the user interface of each application.

May 2012 - Nov 2013
Healthspan | Bristol & Guernsey

Senior Digital Designer

Responsible for the art direction of all digital projects. Design and layout of the e-commerce website, email design, marketing campaigns.

Nov 2009- May 2012
Confused.com | Cardiff

Lead Web Designer

Grew an in-house design team responsible for the website and email campaigns. This included a redesign of the Confused.com homepage and the quote process increasing traffic and revenue.

Nov 2005 - Nov 2009
Bristol and South West

Freelance Web Designer

Contracted for agencies and in-house teams. Designed and built Brunel Promotions website and website re-design at Screwfix.

Aug 1998 - Sep 2005
London Agencies

Web Designer

Designing websites and advertising campaigns at Dorling Kindersley, Icon MediaLab, Modem Media, Cisco Systems.

Education

1994-1998
University of Plymouth

BSc (Hons) Media Lab Arts

4 year sandwich course in Digital Media, communication, HCI and design. Now i-DAT

 

 

Design skills

User Interface Design

User Experience Design

Systems Design

User Flows

Wireframing

Digital Marketing

Usability Testing

Design software skills

Adobe Creative Suite

Miro, Mural

Sketch

Figma

Balsamiq

Development skills

Github, Visual Studio Code, Heroku

Javascript, Nunjucks

HTML and CSS

GDS Toolkit

GDS Prototyping