Zach Mason Email & Phone Number

Cambridge, GB

London, England, United Kingdom

• Improve the end-to-end experience of digital twin platform by conducting usability reviews, identifying UX issues, and proposing design recommendations.
• Conduct client meetings to align personas and UX design with customer’s needs.
• Ensure company-wide consistency through design and documentation of brand and UI element style guides.
• Communicate and implement technical strategies with cross-functional teams to improve UX and web accessibility, creating screen reader and colour accessibility.
• Design UI proposals based on UX research and testing with customers and clients.
• Implement designs in version controlled codebase in C#, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

• Coordinate co-design workshops with blind and visually impaired people.
• Synthesise workshop and testing insights into feasible design decisions.
• Collaborate with researchers, developers, charities, and users to co-design inclusive accessible games for blind and visually impaired marginalised groups.
• Execute successful funding bids for industry and academia.
• Develop and design funded games based on rigorous user research.
• Present internationally published research at conferences.

London Area, United Kingdom

• Mentored 13-17 year old students, teaching them how to improve usability of their app designed to visualise energy generated through kinetic tiles.
• Educated them on the value and process of enacting user personas, journeys, flow diagrams and wireframing to improve their user interface designs.

London Area, United Kingdom

• Led research and development for an arcade style audio-only interactive experience.
• Provided research outcomes to founders for both hardware and software solutions with ideal solution coming in 86% under budget estimation.
• Created, refined, and tested prototypes across multiple operating systems to ensure maximum compatibility and affordability for batch production.

Lancaster, England, United Kingdom

• Tutored undergraduate university students in Adobe Illustrator, 3D modelling in Fusion 360, woodwork, and JavaScript to enable them to design automatons independently.
• Graded and helped iterate their designs throughout prototyping to refine their outcomes.

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

• Collaborated with clients to design, iterate and develop their brand, websites and video presence in-line with their predefined messaging and audience personas.

Virginia, United States

• Taught 6-17 year old children video editing and coding in daily classes through short-film production and drone automation coding classes.
• Presented camp-wide movie nights and drone displays, showcasing the students work.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Ux Research

Funded PhD Studentship as part of the Design Research Works Fellowship at Beyond Imagination Lancaster. exploring virtual accessibility.

Interaction Design, Digital Arts, Creative Technologies, 1St