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Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

1. Hypothesis ‣ 2. Prototype ‣ 3. Test ‣ 4. Learn & Decide

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Senior Product Designer based in Newcastle with many years experience in conducting design research and producing engaging, memorable and intuitive solutions for mobile, Web, Desktop, iOS, Android, Windows, Extended Reality, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Digital Signage platforms. Helped dev team achieve trusted Microsoft Partner status.Specialities: User Experience, Interface Design, Creative Solutions, Animation, 3D Spatial Interfaces, Human Machine Interfaces, Voice User Interfaces, User Centered Design, Problem Solving, Business/Digital Strategies, Competitive Analysis, User Journeys, Usability Testing, Design Research, Information Architecture, Flow Diagrams, Customer Journey Maps, MR, Agile Methodologies, High/Low Fidelity Wireframes, Mockups, Prototype Design & Mediocre Marketing.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

SLR consulting is a environmental and advisory consultancy. I developed & helped orchestrate a full development team, with a strong focus on product and UX design, together we crafted design solutions for digital products across multiple devices and platforms including the Web, mobile, iOS, Android, VR/AR, Windows, Interactive Kiosks. - Providing a holistic view of the user experience across business sectors and impact- Directing designers, looking at improving user experience for responsive mobile products.- Contributing to strategy, product and planning discussions with Senior Management, Directors and Stakeholders- Liaising with creative leaders across SLR products & services- Working with SLR Global team to consider international requirements and commercial needs

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Developing and leading a full development team, while also conducting design research, and testing for new product developments across multiple platforms and business needs.- Customer insight and user research, competitor analysis, evaluation and user based testing that delivers practical, evidence based, real world designs solutions for successful implementation.- Usability testing & UX impact.- Modern approach to UI design and incorporating User Research, Information Architecture, Flow Diagrams, Interaction Design, Visual Design & Design Systems.- Simplifying complex design solutions.- Expert in design processes, ergonomics, interaction design, typography, UI & UX.- Applying Agile Methodologies and lean UX approaches.

Newcastle Upon Tyne

Game completed 'The Hungry Horde'​ for the PS Vita.I joined from the beginning of a small startup company, I was Responsible for the UX throughout the game and managing the art asset creation and pipeline for 'The Hungry Horde'.- Setting high consistent art standards & efficiently creating assets.- Mentored juniors and worked in a close knit all-round, multi-functional team. - Setting up the complete art production pipeline into game engine.- Wireframed and implemented UI layout and final asset creation.- Creating motion graphics - this includes VFX particles etc- Characters, animations, 3D Modelling, unwrapping, rigging, character animations & texturing.- Level design.- Normal maps, diffuse maps, ambient occlusion maps & specular maps.- Game-play testing and balancing.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Game Completed - Driver San Francisco - for the PC, PS3, Xbox 360 and the Wii.- Modelling 3D vehicles and creating 2D texture maps.- High & low poly model creation.- Normal Map creation.- Vector based graphic creation for game assets.- Managing multiple outsourcing companies- Supporting the marketing department with promotional renderings, animations, magazines, posters and on-line marketing. - Next generation motion graphics and storyboards.- Editing HD and SD video promotional clips to increase on-line coverage and product awareness.- Improving game shaders, MAX scripts, game lighting and streamlining the art production pipelines.

Southam

Game Completed - Race Driver GRID - For the PC, PS3, Xbox 360 and the Wii.- Concept livery designs and implementing them once approved.- Front End - Vehicle - Environment - Prop 3D modelling and 2D texturing game content. - Managing multiple outsourcing teams.- Mentoring junior team members and teaching new skills, techniques and software.- Maintaining and setting new high standards and consistent art content.- Baking high-res model normal maps to low res models.- Damage editor and set damage tolerances to create realistic and believable real-time collisions.- Setting up the in-game lighting and shadows for both the interior and exterior car models- Testing the models for bugs and imperfections and fixing them. - I conceptualised spacecrafts and battle-station art work for Jumpgate Evolution.

Solihull

Game Completed - Sega Rally Revo and Sega Rally 3 Arcade - For the PC, PS3, Xbox 360- Working on the vehicle and environment art team - Modelling and texturing rally car models, environment objects.- Pre-production, prototyping and designing rally cars and liveries.- Involvement in the initial design concept/storyboard phase for new game proposals.- Creating automated scripts to help speed up the art creation process.- Developing the standards of my technical work and creative problem solving skills

Gateshead

- Working with the Art & Design team- Managing outsourcing teams & assets as well as being involved in the production process.- Advancing my design, modelling, texturing, mapping and animation skills.- Liaising with the technology & rendering programmers to discover the most efficient rendering/automated processes in order to speed up production.- Involvement with the front end GUI designs, user interaction and selection screens.- A dynamic all-round skill set developing 2D and 3D artwork using 3D Studio Max, Photoshop, Illustrator and in-house production tools.- Extensive games development knowledge.- Excellent team working skills.