Carl Myhill

Current

• User Experience Architect Consultant within New Media team at Cambridge Assessment
• Principal Consultant at User Experience Design

Past

• Interaction Design Consultant at i2 Limited
• Head of User Experience at General Electric Network Reliability Products and Services
• uxd at GE

• user interface designer at sfk technology

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Education

• Cranfield University
• Cranfield University
• Middlesex University

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Company

Carl Myhill’s Summary

My Career objective is to to design and build excellent user interfaces (applications or web sites) for companies that share my belief in the competitive advantage gained from investing in user-centred design.

I am very keen to use 16 years experience in User Experience Design (UXD) to support organisations doing something about climate change, carbon emissions, sustainability and environmental matters.

Carl Myhill’s Specialties:

Interaction Design based on the Cooper approach, accessible design, ethnography, paper prototyping, end-to-end interaction design, working effectively with programming teams (even doing Agile)

Carl Myhill’s Experience

• User Experience Architect Consultant within New Media team

  Cambridge Assessment

  (Computer Software industry)

  2008 — Present (1 year)

  Various roles ranging from Accessibility audits to Stanca Act / WCAG 1.0 / 508 / WCAG 2.0 to website design relating to learning management systems and electronic examinations.

• Principal Consultant

  User Experience Design

  (Design industry)

  September 2007 — Present (1 year 11 months)

  Principal Consultant for User Experience Design Limited (Cambridge, UK).
  
  Providing consultancy in all aspects of User Experience Design for software and hardware products and websites. Work ranges from interviewing and observing users, to requirements definition, to product design and usability testing).
  
  Also, building simple websites that are accessible and easy to find from Google searches.

• Interaction Design Consultant

  i2 Limited

  (Law Enforcement industry)

  April 2008 — July 2008 (4 months)

  Interaction design consultancy based on Cooper approach integrated within Agile development. Working on analytical software for the police and similar markets.

• Head of User Experience

  General Electric Network Reliability Products and Services

  (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

  October 1997 — April 2007 (9 years 7 months)

• uxd

  GE

  (Computer Software industry)

  2000 — 2007 (7 years)

• user interface designer

  sfk technology

  (Computer Software industry)

  1992 — 1997 (5 years)

Carl Myhill’s Education

• Cranfield University

  Ph.D. , Human-Computer Interaction (Applied Psychology) , 1992 — 1999

  Human Factors Technology Group, Cranfield University
  
  Thesis, “Facilitating the comprehension of Human-Computer Interaction design intent within a software team”

• Cranfield University

  M.Sc. , Artificial Intelligence , 1991 — 1992

  Thesis, “A machine learning approach to prediction of alloy additives”

• Middlesex University

  B.Sc. , Mathematics for Business , 1987 — 1991

  First Class Honours
  
  Thesis, “Project Management Software and its potential in National Westminster Systems Development”

Additional Information

Carl Myhill’s Websites:

• My Company

Carl Myhill’s Interests:

goal-directed design, cooper, usability, user experience design, uxd, website design, accessibility,

Carl Myhill’s Groups:

The Designers Accord, Usability Professionals Association, upa, chi,

•    Usability Professionals' Association International (UPA-I)
•    User Experience
•    Bicycle to Work!
•    The Designers Accord

Carl Myhill’s Honors:

2005 - An ISO auditor examined the team's product design and development process and deliverables across a number of projects (this is a process based on Goal-Directed design - a trademark of Cooper). He said, "this is way beyond any best practice I have ever seen".

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