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Designer
Location
London, United Kingdom
Toptal Member Since
June 4, 2019
John's spent the past eight years helping businesses to harness the power of design to solve a variety of problems for their customers. He's done this for startups through to FTSE 100 companies including British Gas and Transport for London. He's a highly competent designer specializing in web/app design (UX/UI) with in-depth experience in the entire product design lifecycle. He's a proponent of user-centered design and loves driving innovation.
Work Experience
Lead UX Designer (Contract)
2018 - 2019
Peace Direct
- Analyzed and redesigned the company's "Platform 4 Dialogue" platform to match a more simplistic information hierarchy.
- Created a bespoke homepage template to be used as an advertising tool across multiple clients.
Technologies: Adobe After Effects, Principle, Adobe Photoshop, OmniGraffle, Sketch
Senior Product Designer
2017 - 2018
British Gas
- Led the redesign of the most visited account page on the British Gas site (300,000 per month).
- Provided strategic direction and integrated business and user interests—to ensure the creation of one common outcome.
- Harnessed frequent usability testing and hypothesis based design in order to increase the conversion rate of the Setup Direct Debit journey—saving the business an estimated £155,000 per year.
- Spearheaded the efforts on UX discovery work around the Manage Direct Debit proposition. Through user interviews and analytical research, suggested an experiment which saved the business estimated £500,000 in man hours while offering the same functionality as previous.
- Worked alongside other designers in building a fully usable UI toolkit to simplify and speed the design process across 20 product teams.
- Carried out various workshops to highlight the benefits of this.
- Created and presented an “Introduction to Design Thinking” workshop to senior stakeholders within the business—through this, gained further alignment with wider stakeholders and ultimately provided better outcomes for customers.
Technologies: Principle, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Sketch, InVision
Senior UX/UI Designer
2014 - 2017
Ladbrokes
- Worked as the sole UX designer in the exploration and style update for the new Ladbrokes' desktop website.
- Responsible for the implementation of all interaction/motion design solutions across the desktop website and mobile app.
- Introduced and implemented usability testing processes across all UX projects.
- Contributed to entire restructuring and design aimed at providing a new IA and navigation for the Ladbrokes' mobile app.
- Developed an onboarding package containing UX/UI team guidelines.
- Mentored junior designers—providing regular review sessions on design assets.
Technologies: Origami, Adobe Photoshop, Sketch, OmniGraffle
Front-end Developer
2012 - 2014
Transport for London
- Worked with a team of developers in building the fully responsive HTML5-based website.
- Provided design support on staff-related mobile apps.
Technologies: Adobe Photoshop, jQuery, JavaScript, CSS, HTML
Education
2009 - 2012
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Degree in Information Technology in Organizations
University of Southampton - Southampton, England
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