
UX Designer / Information Architect at DWP
London, United Kingdom

UX Designer / Information Architect at DWP
London, United Kingdom
Great communicator across the whole business, able to bring various parties together in order to achieve a common goal.
User Experience development professional who understands the true power of semantics and well structured software.
Working towards creating highest quality W3C standards compliant user interfaces with high usability and accessibility.
Past and present clients include: Tesco.com, PepsiCo, Boots.com, National-Lottery.co.uk, direct.gov.uk, Microsoft.com, Legal & General, HomeServe PLC.
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(Government Agency; Government Administration industry)
June 2009 — Present (6 months)
Integrating major Government on-line services into Directgov framework
Providing User Experience services to achieve best quality on-line services for identified target users
Producing annotated wire frames and clickable prototypes for the entire project and handing over to EDS for development
Collaborating regularly with all parties involved to ensure smooth delivery of the programme
Proposing and creating an end to end UXD process for long term use and reuse by DWP EXD team(s)
Looking into mobile provision and compliance for DWP aspects of Directgov framework
Contributing towards and ensuring high accessibility compliance for all DWP interfaces
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
October 2005 — Present (4 years 2 months)
Flexewebs focuses on adding value to business through use of Internet in any way possible that makes sense.
I have been involved in projects which cover: online administration systems, CMSs, SEO, e-commerce and dynamic web sites of all types.
I have also been involved in developing full Web 2.0 applications (Software As Service) from inception to completion.
Adopted process involves: UML modeling to capture requirements and elicit software structure, possible bottles necks and high complexities; Object Oriented modelling at every step; pattern based approach using high performance MVC frameworks (Code Igniter for PHP);
User Experience lead development with heavy focus on usability and accessibility within Web2.0 environment; highly interactive and social applications which work seemlessly across all platforms; SCRUM based iterative approach; Reusable semantic components.
W3C, semantics, usability, accessibility, Google, Web2.0, music production, photography, web design, Internet, video production, song writing, UXD, IA, UCD, HTML, Web standards, HTML5, CSS, JQuery
W3C, London Web Standards
MSc [Hons] in Business Information Systems
BSc [Hons] in Computer Science