Steve Taylor Email & Phone Number

Epsom, Gb

New York, New York, Us

Leading a global team of talented designers to deliver digital excellence to the Goldman Sachs Asset Management business. Working across all facets of the business from marketing to client tooling to internal applications, we collaborate tightly with Product, Engineering & the business to deliver value to our clients.

New York, New York, Us

Alongside leading the EMEA & APCA design team, I took over leading the design team responsible for delivering the GS Design System.Working on the GS Design System was one of the most rewarding & enjoyable roles I've had at GS. Managing and scaling a design system that stretches across so many different use cases was hugely challenging. Key achievements include:- relaunching design.gs.com- rolling out governance process to manage the evolution of the design system- enhancing design documentation to include patterns and layouts- seeing over 1,000,000 component instances used in a year

New York, New York, Us

Leading the EMEA & APAC Core UX design teams across global product initiatives in Securities, Operations, Asset Management, Technology and Consumer Digital Banking.Also keeping my hands dirty by leading the design effort on Marcus by Goldman Sachs.

New York, New York, Us

Leading the very talented ux design teams in London & Bengaluru.Growing a multidiscipline team made up of researchers, interaction designers & visual designers.Working on globally distributed projects in consumer banking, client facing applications and internal tools across all divisions of the investment bank.Following user centred process & design thinking methodologies to drive product strategy.Working with engineering teams to deliver products in an agile fashion.

New York, New York, Us

Leading strategic, multi-platform design projects across the breadth of Goldman Sachs. Carrying out first hand user research, working with BA's, project managers, software developers, visual & interaction designers distributed across 4 continents, I deliver cutting edge digital applications & experience strategies with user insight as the predominant driving force.Alongside managing design projects I am also involved in recruiting and mentoring junior designers ensuring we have the right blend of youth and experience to provide a creative, intelligent & robust design team.

Guildford, Gb

Leading the Interaction Design team at TheAlloy, my role spans a variety of different activities from meeting and pitching to new clients, managing research engagements, working with clients to realise design and development strategies for new & existing product development and of course, still getting down and dirty with all aspects of the interaction design & delivery process.At TheAlloy we work on a multitude of different projects, drawing on our experienced, multidiscipline team to deliver compelling, results driven solutions to big problems. We also fire nerf guns at each other.

Guildford, Gb

Sit on the board of directors at TheAlloy representing the interests of the employee's in the business. This position is elected by the staff of TheAlloy and lasts for a 2 year period.

Guildford, Gb

My role at TheAlloy centres around designing interactions between users & technology across multiple platforms including desktop, mobile, web & tv platforms.Working across a variety of sectors from large multi-national corporations to small innovative start ups I work with a multi-disciplinery team of designers & researchers delivering creative, innovative & engaging experiences with technology for users.

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nl

Interaction design internship based in Eindhoven working at Philips Advanced Technology on large EU Project called TA2 with 13 european partners. Conducted, managed and analysed user research with European families in the form of focus groups, diary studies, observations and interviews. Produced academic paper with results of user studies that was submitted to CHI 2010 conference.Developed prototypes for iTV platform using Adobe Flash.

Involved in whole range of on and off-line digital design projects from conception to completion. Worked closely with senior developer to produce whole range of websites from large multi-lingual, ecommerce solutions, e-learning courses and small boutique websites.Produced wireframes, story boards and user journeys to map out user experience. Developed variety of different fidelity prototypes using Flash to develop interactive elements.

On leaving university, I set up a creative consultancy providing digital design services across web, mobile and desktop platforms. Projects included interactive digital presentations incorporating 3D animations, video & audio, large e-commerce and cms web solutions, small 'brochure' websites and a range of graphic design projects. Clients included NHS, Channel 4 & So Norton TV.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Senior Leader Degree Level 7, Leadership

Distinction, Msc Interaction Design

2:1, Ba(Hons) Industrial Design And Technology