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As a User Experience Director, I lead a team of UX & UI designers who understand implement seamless, user-centric experiences across digital platforms or products. We craft intuitive interfaces, conduct user research, analyse data-driven insights, and advocate for the end-user throughout the development process. Our guidance ensures that the final product not only meets but exceeds user expectations, fostering loyalty and engagement while driving business success.My role is multifaceted, involving strategic planning, team leadership, and a deep understanding of user behaviour and preferences. I collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including designers, researchers, engineers, and product managers, to define UX strategies that align with business goals.Working with clients such as the British Council, Metro Bank, SEFE Energy, DCC (DCC Propane, Flogas and Certas Energy), Southern Water, Portsmouth Water, Swissport and others, both regional, national and global.My role also allows me to speak at many events on the subject of UX, personalisation and user research and insight, where I can share my knowledge and expertise.

Driving a team of industry leading designers to help our clients and partners grow. With experience across all design disciplines, with heavy focus on UI and UX design we have provided transformational solutions for clients such as Flogas Great Britain, Continental Tyres and Home Group as well as many more across a broad range of sectors and industries.

After managing the conversion rate optimization team for a number of months, and bringing successful results to our clients, exceeding targets set and delivering huge growth within the department, moving into a Lead role allows me to take all the learnings from leading a data and user experience based department and drive that process through the design team to deliver first-class, user-centric output. Leading projects such as Johnnie Johnson Housing, Metro Bank, Continental Tyres and JT Dove, I focus on delivering the best possible output to drive our clients businesses forward and allow them to own their future. I also help drive personal development through the department, making sure that the team are driven in the projects they're passionate to be a part of.

Leading the Conversion Rate Optimisation team, we focus on driving conversions and increasing revenue as well as understanding the impact that can be had through the full user journey, from awareness, consideration, through conversion and into aspects of advocacy and loyalty. We have experience working with clients in all industries and sectors, with successful results across the board, with all clients seeing an uplift, some as high as £18k additional monthly revenue.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Mediaworks is an award-winning, full service marketing agency, offering a range of comprehensive services such as design, development, SEO, PPC, content and link building. During my time here I have taken charge of branding, print and digital projects, including the Wild in Art Big Sleuth app, which has over 5.5million interactions and over 11,000 downloads. Other clients that I have worked with include Foundation of Light, Escape Fitness, Esh Group, Lookers, Silver Cross, Home Group, ParkingPerx, York Business School and Gripple, among many others.I also lead the Conversion Rate Optimisation team, using my knowledge and experience of UX and design, as well as data from Google Analytics, Hotjar and Convert to help clients maximise the revenue and enquiries from their website.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

From concept to completion, Unwritten work with marketing managers, business directors and their teams. We create brand identities, marketing literature and responsive websites. We use content to attract and design to engage, allowing them to create brand messages, both digitally and in print, that buyers really care about.Unwritten's buyer persona strategy ensures the design work they produce accurately responds to the needs of your customer and helps you towards achieving sales and marketing goals.After joining Unwritten as their first full-time designer, I have been instrumental in putting together processes for both print and digital, in addition to in-house studio processes and filing, as well as internally branded documents. My responsibilities within Unwritten included taking branding, print and web design briefs from concept stage all the way through to artwork and completion, working alongside clients such as Sage, North Tyneside Council, Newcastle Airport and TOFS.While working at Unwritten, we have been named the regions ‘best creative business’ at the North East Entrepreneur (WIN) Awards.

Stocksfield, Northumberland

Offstone is a combined magazine publisher and full-service PR, marketing and design agency, publishing more than 1 million magazines a year and serving clients across a range of sectors including professional services, estate agency, retail, hair and beauty, hospitality, motors and more. While at Offstone I had the pleasure of working across all of their in house publications and websites such as Cheers, Appetite and Contact, as well as client publications such as Close House magazine and the North East Chamber of Commerce.

Ouseburn, Newcastle Upon Tyne

The Point Design are a diverse graphic design studio, dedicated to creating work to complement your business dealing in all aspects of design, from branding to exhibitions, literature to packaging.My responsibilities at The Point Design included taking branding and print design briefs from concept stage all the way through to artworking, working alongside clients such as TOFS, Flymo and Newcastle College.

Diploma In Art & Design, Graphic Design, Pass

This broad-based one-year course encouraged me to explore my skills and interests. The course itself is very practical and gave me.

Fd Graphic Design, Pass

FD Graphic Design at Newcastle College is a fast moving, competitive and industry led course. This course focuses on creativity.