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Leading design on several significant new product enhancements, including nav redesign, home feed, and feedback features. Improving IA and existing functionality, such as wins, framework builder, and AI skill generator, improving their usage by over 200% week-on-week.

Mentoring over 20 designers, that were either looking to break into the industry or looking to progress in their careers. Gaining incredible experience, developing my management skills in: active listening, helping others to navigate difficult situations, generating actionable items from each 1:1, and giving direct feedback.

Joining to learn and meet other experienced designers who want to accelerate their careers and become stronger ICs and confident leaders.

Joining as hire #3, playing a pivotal role in scaling the product from launch to serving 200+ customers and 250,000+ users. Leading design across the entire product — refining chat and video calling features, and designing intricate dashboards for admins and finance teams.

I joined the Black Valley mentoring program, to help aspiring Black designers gain experience and enter the workforce. To help build a more diverse, inclusive and equitable future in tech and design. I held weekly sessions with my mentee, focused around understanding her current experience, short and long term goals. Each week we discussed a piece of current work or task I set, and how she was progressing. We also spoke about intervewing and standing out in the job market, so she could move closer to securing her first UX role — which she achieved a few months after our last session!

Developing the foundations of a design system for the web app and native app —. As well as incorporating the new brand as it was developed by Studio Koto.

Understand the core principles and libraries of the React ecosystem react, react-router, styled-components, styled-system, storybook, redux, react-redux, graphql, react-apollo. Develop and test complex and reliable React applications usoing enzyme and jest. Comprehending modern front-end JavaScript (ECMAScript 2018). Understanding the best practices and patterns for building real-world production-ready React applications. Understand how to use GraphQL on the client-side to improve your React apps development and performance.

Joining as hire number two and the only Product Designer. Feeling passionately about the mission to fix the process of getting up to speed and fully productive as quick as possible when joining a new company.

Part of a 15+ person design team, leading design on the homepage and marketing pages, across web and native apps — and leading an accessibility audit.

Delivering innovative user-centered design solutions, ensuring quality and usability for the broad ITV audience — from young Love Island lovers, to older Corrie loyalists. Contributing to strategy and vision across the full range of platforms, with a focus on web.

Collaborating with web, iOS, Android and customer support teams in an Agile environment to create better experiences both online and offline. Conducting usability testing, user interviews, to gain insights to feed into the design and development process. Leading and contributing to projects, across different channels and platforms — including iterating on the homepage search-focused experience, new hotel details view for web and native apps.

Part of the Studio team, producing design work for national and international clients, especially in the pharmaceutical industry — personally working on projects for AstraZeneca, Janssen and TfGM.

Fortnightly mentoring position helping Manchester Creative & Media Academy students develop design skills in response to a brief outlined by McCann Manchester to produce a creative online magazine, designed and run by students.

Ideas-driven studio-based course where a variety of approaches to visual communication were explored. Working on personal and industry-related projects, focusing on contemporary and relevant design. Connecting with industry, through workshops run by visiting speakers such as Ian Anderson, Co-founder of Designers Republic and Anthony Burrill — as well as "live“ briefs and work experience.