Alexander Stevens

Designer in Toulouse, France

Member since December 23, 2019

Alexander is a designer and manager with 20 years of experience working in agencies and in-house in London. He has worked with a multitude of clients from startups to FTSE 100 companies. Al’s working style is easy-going, open, and inclusive. He likes to work in fast-moving teams where he can design, ship, learn, and iterate quickly from research through to detailed design and delivery.

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Portfolio

Digital Design

UI Redesign of a SaaS Business Travel Booking Product
- SaaS
- UI Design
- Web Design
- Visual Design
- Web Animation
- Animated Prototypes
- Empathy Mapping
- Persona Design
- Figma
- Principle
- Workshop Facilitation
- Enterprise SaaS
- Enterprise
- Web App UX
- Responsive Web Design (RWD)
eCommerce Redesign and Re-platform - Luxury Holiday Company
- UX Design
- UI Design
- User Research
- Luxury Industry
- Travel & Leisure
- eCommerce
- Content Strategy
- SAP Hybris
- Wireframing
- Prototyping
- Mental Model
- Journey Mapping
- Heuristic Evaluation
- Heuristic Reports
- Heuristic Review
- Ideation Workshops
- Design
UX Discovery Prototype - Luxury Holiday Website
- UX Design
- UX Prototyping
- Axure RP Pro
- UX Strategy
- UX Research
- Design Sprints
A new look for a US State Park website
- UX Design
- eCommerce
- Mobile UI
- Figma
- eCommerce UX
- Prototyping
- UI Branding
- Travel
- Search
- Travel & Leisure
- Booking
- Checkout
- UI Design
UI Design - Luxury Yacht Charter Company
- UI Design
- Luxury Industry
- Style Guides
- UI Style Guides
- Responsive UI
- Prototyping
- Typography
Heuristic Mobile Design - Citalia, Hayes, and Jarvis
- UX Research
- Heuristic Reports
- Responsive UI
- UI Design
- Prototyping
Train Search Redesign - SaaS/Enterprise Travel Booking Tool
- User Research
- Prototyping
- UI Design
- Interaction Design (IxD)
- UX Design
- Component Libraries
- Collaborative Design
- Co-design
- HTML
- CSS
- Responsive
- Angular
- Enterprise SaaS
- Enterprise
- SaaS
- Web App UX
- Responsive Web Design (RWD)
eCommerce Travel Platform UI Design
- UI Design
- Visual Design
- Photoshop CC
- Design Systems
Campaigns and Styling for Travel eCommerce Website
- UI Design
- Stakeholder Management
- HTML
- CSS
- JavaScript
- Visual Design
- Photography Styling
- Accessibility

Employment

UX and UI Designer
2017 - 2019
Click Travel
- Transitioned £300 million worth of business onto the new product and engineering platform.
- Discovered and delivered the results impacting the day-to-day UX of a large portion of our users.
- Acted as the design owner and curator of the style guide and component library, creating a UI vision for their future.
- Assisted the flights product team to design and ship a seat mapping feature for a flights product.
- Delivered a two-fold NPS increase with incremental design and platform improvements.
- Assisted the trains product team to design and ship a newly designed train search including the introduction of e-ticketing options.
Technologies: Tower, WebStorm, Principle, Lookback, Figma
Lead UX Designer
2010 - 2017
TUI Group
- Managed a team of four designers working in a larger UX team of 12.
- Supervied the design for a complex web re-platform initiative of their specialist tour operators.
- Organized and facilitated workshops with the business. Collaborated with stakeholders to deliver business objectives.
- Spearheaded the production of user journeys, screen flows, prototypes, specifications, detailed visual design specifications, heuristic analyses, experience maps, and user research.
- Headed up the design for the Sovereign rebrand work.
- Ran the design teams who delivered three of our brands onto new platforms.
- Worked closely with the CRO team to devise and execute a range of CRO tests using Qubit and VWO.
Technologies: Sketch, Marvel, Adobe Photoshop, Axure, InVision
Lead UX Designer
2009 - 2010
Crystal Ski, Thomson Lakes and Mountains
- Led the UI design for their ecommerce re-platform project, working from wireframes for the UK's Number 1 Ski Tour Operator. The result drove consistent double-digit growth in online revenue in a tough market.
- Assisted the commercial product owner to design and develop the UX and UI for a snow report feature. Working from wireframes to detailed design.
- Collaborated with commercial teams to design landing pages and on site advertising for tactical eCommerce campaigns.
- Coded and redesigned the suite of HTML marketing templates for the Crystal - the UK's number one ski tour operator.
Technologies: Marvel, Adobe Illustrator, HTML, Adobe Photoshop
Creative Partner
2008 - 2009
Fluke
- Acted as the creative partner in own design agency.
- Produced website and email marketing for an early mobile banking startup; MoBank.
Technologies: Adobe Illustrator, HTML, Adobe Photoshop
Senior Web Designer
2007 - 2008
First Choice Holidays
- Spearheaded the art direction of the photographic style used for a new eCommerce platform.
- Improved the flexibility of offer deliveries on the merchandising pages through the use of JavaScript and JSON.
- Collaborated with product on the delivery of key tactical campaigns.
- Designed seat maps for the UI of Thomson Fly.
Technologies: JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
Interactive Designer
2003 - 2007
Designate
- Developed the UI for an award-winning eCommerce platform for P&O Ferries.
- Spearheaded the email design and build for many clients including Best Western, P&O Ferries, Welsh Tourist Board, and Transavia.
- Developed the online advertising design for Best Western, P&O Ferries, Welsh Tourist Board, and Transavia.
- Created the full design and coded HTML of various projects including Best Western Hotels, Wales in Style, and Sunstar leisure.
Technologies: JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
Senior Web Designer
1998 - 2003
Ardent Creative
- Delivered projects as a full-stack designer for clients.
- Initiated the use of server-side database driven technologies.
- Produced and designed front end and back-end admin systems for clients.
Technologies: ASP.NET, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Product Design
1994 - 1998
Bournemouth University - England

Experience

UI Design15 years
HTML15 years
CSS15 years
Travel10 years
UX Design10 years
Information Architecture (IA)7 years
User Research5 years
Enterprise SaaS2 years

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Designer in Toulouse, France

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UX and UI Designer

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Lead UX Designer

Creative Partner

Senior Web Designer

Interactive Designer

Senior Web Designer

Education

Experience

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