Dave Titley

Designer in Birmingham, United Kingdom

Member since October 27, 2021

Dave is a senior UI/UX designer with 15 years of experience in designing and delivering digital products and experiences for leading brands in SaaS, finance, retail, and professional services. His primary expertise is UX strategy and consultancy and facilitating stakeholder workshops to deliver apps, websites, and creative content. He thrives in fast-paced environments and promotes close collaboration with all stakeholders to solve business problems with human-centered design methodologies.

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Digital Design

SaaS Product Design
- SaaS
- SaaS Design
- User Experience (UX)
- User Interface (UI)
- Responsive UI
- Native Mobile Apps
- Web App UI
- Product Pages
- Design Systems
- InVision App
- Sketch
- Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
- Business Intelligence (BI)
- Sales Enablement
- DataViz
- Product Design
Award-winning Financial Services Web Application
- Web Applications
- Web UX
- User Experience (UX)
- Responsive UI
- Business Intelligence (BI)
- Personal Finance
- Financial UX
- Personalization
- Product Pages
- Digital Design
- Web UX Design
- UX Direction
- User Interface (UI)
- Front-end
- Product Design
Suicide Prevention Website
- Web UX
- Web Content
- Content Creation
- UX Strategy
- User Interface (UI)
- User Experience (UX)
- Ad Campaigns
- Campaign Design
- Digital Design
- Digital Campaigns
- Social Impact
- Local & Municipal Government
- Public Health
- Creative Direction
- Creative Concept Development
Cross-platform UX for Charity Shopping
- User Experience (UX)
- Native Mobile Apps
- Browser Plugins
- Cause Marketing
- SaaS Design
- Design Systems
- User Interface (UI)
- Web UI Design
- UX Direction
- Web Platforms
- Creative Direction
- Digital Design
- Social
- Content Creation
- Web Content
- Product Design
Creative Comms Campaign
- Advertising Design
- CreativeJS
- Creative Direction
- Digital Creative Direction
- Branding
- Brand Development
- Brand Design
- UX Branding
- Video Direction
- Photography Direction
- Digital Campaigns
- Sponsorship
- Band Logos
- Internal Communications
- Graphic Design
Website Design and Content
- Adobe After Effects
- Adobe CC
- Web UX
- User Interface (UI)
- Web Content
- Video SEO
- Digital Design
- Creative Direction
- Web UI Design
- Web Design
- Responsive UI
- Content Creation
- Content-first Design & Development
- User Personas
- User Journey Maps

Employment

UI/UX Design Lead
2020 - PRESENT
Sales-I
- Acted as the lead consultant on product UI/UX; maintained close contact with the key business stakeholders to discover, define, and deliver the next generation of the industry-leading SaaS product.
- Utilized the Invision Design System Management and Sketch; developed and maintained a design system to reduce the design debt and accelerate the product development across multiple workstreams.
- Developed the brand strategy for internal and external creative executions.
Technologies: InVision, Sketch, Adobe CC, Figma
Senior UX Designer
2020 - 2020
Atkins
- Led the UX strategy and UI design as a technical authority within the creative design practice of a multinational engineering design company.
- Developed the business opportunities, defined the user requirements, and created the user flows and prototypes to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas.
- Created high-fidelity product UI designs and content solutions, including gamification and written documentation.
Technologies: Adobe CC, InVision, Sketch, Miro
Creative Director
2019 - 2020
DRP
- Helped brands to maximize opportunities in the digital space; worked closely and collaboratively with clients to discover, define, and deliver effective digital experiences.
- Implemented the UX strategies to understand the client's business goals, value proposition, and customers' needs.
- Led various project teams to deliver creative strategies and tactical executions with a hands-on approach in the studio.
- Managed and delivered the product analytics to the clients on agreed metrics to enhance their business performance.
Technologies: Adobe CC, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Experience Design (XD)
Senior UX Designer
2019 - 2020
Easyfundraising
- Acted as the UX lead for the UK's largest fundraising cashback platform; worked closely with the engineers and product owners to enhance user experience across a complex, multisided platform.
- Developed the production strategies, prototypes, and user flows alongside a design system to reduce design debt across the whole tech stack.
- Defined the brand strategies and developed the branding elements to enhance consistency across multiple touchpoints, including product and marketing.
Technologies: InVision, Sketch, Adobe Experience Design (XD), Adobe CC
Director of Digital Content Strategy and Production
2016 - 2019
The Partnership UK
- Built relationships with clients and project stakeholders as the digital strategy and UX lead.
- Supported the brands through collaborative workshops to develop digitally focused KPIs following their broader business goals and visualize how they fit the customers' wants and needs.
- Implemented multiple UX methodologies, including but not limited to persona development, user journey mapping, rapid prototyping, and pattern libraries.
- Developed and designed multiple front-end UIs across the product and website deliverables.
- Designed, animated, and edited multiple motion graphics and videos for marketing campaigns.
Technologies: Adobe CC, Sketch, Adobe Experience Design (XD), After Effects CC, Premiere Pro CC
Head of Digital
2014 - 2016
The Partnership UK
- Reenergized the agency’s digital offering by coordinating internal resources and recruiting specific roles to build an award-winning digital production team.
- Delivered multiple digital transformation projects enabling the growth of existing clients while providing a portfolio of digital ingenuity to sell to new clients.
- Managed a small but highly effective team of developers with both front-end and back-end capabilities.
- Collaborated with clients across multiple regions of mainland UK, Channel Islands, and Ireland.
Technologies: Adobe After Effects, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript
Senior Digital Designer | Developer
2012 - 2014
Arena Racing
- Acted as the digital team lead for the UK’s most significant racing and events company by managing its extensive online portfolio of over 16 public-facing websites.
- Collaborated with multiple internal marketing teams and corporate stakeholders to successfully deliver digital advertising and support the business objectives of each racecourse.
- Coordinated and designed social and e-marketing campaigns to promote racing and live events across 16 unique locations.
- Partnered with the graphic design team and managed and mentored a junior digital designer.
Technologies: Adobe CC, WordPress
Digital Designer | Developer
2007 - 2012
DRP
- Gained invaluable experience working on integrated experiential campaigns and internal communications for leading brands.
- Developed coding capabilities focused on the front end using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and basic PHP.
- Provided creative digital content and experiences for events, exhibitions, games, and data capture quizzes across multiple regions of the UK.
- Built client management skills with extensive experience gained by working with some of the largest UK brands in finance, retail, and tourism.
Technologies: Adobe CC, Adobe Flash

Education

Bachelor of Arts Degree in Design for Digital Media
2003 - 2006
University of Derby - Derby

Experience

Web UX15 years
Product Design15 years
User Experience (UX)15 years
Content Creation15 years
User Journey Maps10 years
UX Strategy10 years
Design Systems8 years

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