Al Stevens

Current

Contract User Experience Lead at Tui Travel PLC
Creative Partner at Fluke New Media

Past

Senior Web Designer at First Choice
Interactive Designer at Designate
Senior Designer at Ardent Creative

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Education

Bournemouth University
Godalming College

Recommended

6 people have recommended Al

Connections

85 connections

Industry

Design

Websites

Al Stevens’s Summary

A highly experienced web and user experience designer. Passionate about web usability and standards, I want to design the web of the future today and I want to use only the best tools.

I take a collaborative and iterative approach and will take advantage of SEO, analytics and other metrics to focus the design effort exactly where customers need it – helping them achieve their goals.

Coupling this with my experience in art direction and generating advertising communications completes the tools I need to create persuasive web based campaigns and compelling user experiences.

Al Stevens’s Specialties:

xhtml, css, javascript, photoshop, illustrator dreamweaver, flash, php, domscripting, ajax, progressive enhancement etc Art direction, usability, seo, analytics, agile development, iterative design, usability, web apis.

Al Stevens’s Experience

Contract User Experience Lead

Tui Travel PLC

(Public Company; TTP; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

June 2009 — Present (6 months)
Creative Partner

Fluke New Media

(Design industry)

November 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)
Senior Web Designer

First Choice

(Public Company; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

January 2007 — January 2009 (2 years 1 month)
Interactive Designer

Designate

(Partnership; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

December 2003 — December 2006 (3 years 1 month)

Interactive Designer for this communications agency in Brighton.

Award winning: Design and build of walesinstyle.com for which Designate won Best Agency for Website Design' at the 2007 Travolution Awards.
Senior Designer

Ardent Creative

(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

November 1998 — February 2003 (4 years 4 months)