About

I am:

  • A strategic design lead with C-suite pitching experience

  • A design manager with over 5 years’ experience building and leading teams

  • A digital accessibility advocate with good understanding of design for localisation

I have:

  • Strong design delivery across the product lifecycle, from research to specs

  • Exceptional communication, interpersonal, sketching and presentation skills

  • Extensive public speaking experience: on accessibility, design team org systems and UX research

Clients and companies include:

Arriva, Artemis, Art Fund, Channel 4, Children’s Society, Eden Project, GWR, Mazda, NatWest, Penguin and Vodafone

Awards:

UX Design Awards, UXPA Awards, Best Digital Transformation at UK Digital Experience Awards, Best Use of Social Media

Skills

  • High-fidelity design 🎨
    Brand application, typography, creative concepts, spec handoff

    Data and research 📊
    Interviews, qual/quant, AI, 
data, dashboards

    Workshops and discoveries 💡
    Workshop setup, creative facilitation,
    insight building, hypothesis forming

    Product vision 🔮
    Core product vision video concept 
and delivery/production

    My toolkit 🛠️
    Figma • Miro • Adobe PS / AI / AE • 
Lottie • MS Office • Stark

  • UX strategy ♟️
    Product/Engineering collaboration 
for E2E product lifecycle

    Accessibility 👁️‍🗨️
    Advocacy, up-skilling, ×-functional working group facilitation, WCAG

    Design systems 🎛️
    Foundational implementation in working group contribution model

    Localisation strategy 💬
    Defining UX localisation strategy

    Management and hiring 💼
    Interviews, onboarding, reviews and 
goal-setting, coaching, 1:1s

  • Networking and meetups 🔌
    Organisation and recruitment for Convey, a transport UX event

    Public speaking 🎤
    All hands, UX meetups, external conferences (UK and international) such as UXDX and Ecomm Design Summit

    Hackathons 🧪
    Visioning and team-forming for accessibility and companion hacks

    People-Led Group Member 🌻
    Disability and neurodivergence peer advocacy (internal/external)