Gideon Bullock

Current

Creative Director at Songkick
Co-Founder and Design Director at MySoti

Past

Consultant at t5m
User Experience Design at Skype
Senior User Experience Designer at BBC

User Experience Designer at Oyster Partners
Web Designer at Webmedia

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Gideon Bullock’s Summary

An experienced design director and senior user experience designer with clear capabilities in interaction design, information architecture, strategy and brand development.

Gideon Bullock’s Specialties:

User Centred Design, interaction design, branding and identity, Information Architecture

Gideon Bullock’s Experience

Creative Director

Songkick

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

June 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

Product development: design direction, UE, interaction, and IA
Co-Founder and Design Director

MySoti

(Internet industry)

March 2006 — Present (3 years 5 months)

MySoti.com is the first link in a chain of on-line, community based websites that allow the on-demand fabrication of customer-designed products.
Consultant

t5m

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

October 2007 — February 2008 (5 months)

4 months working in a start-up environment developing branding architecture and user experience for a socially-conscious entertainment and lifestyle video site backed by founders of Skype, lastminute.com and Microsoft. Worked with the Microsoft Accelerator project team to develope a platform which will feature a complete social network based media delivery environment whose clients include Disney and events such as the Brits. Co-developed brand strategy across all aspects of company output and worked with syndication partners such as Facebook, YouTube Bebo and MySpaceTV.
User Experience Design

Skype

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; EBAY; Internet industry)

October 2005 — September 2007 (2 years)

Worked on global online marketing initiatives. Developed complex directory listings and community applications, both for the web and the skype client. Worked on the re-architecture of the Skype website including interaction models, brand execution and design language, with much of the work based on analytics and user research, tied in with focused business requirements. Worked with some of the most talented and inspiring people one could wish to work with, good times.
Senior User Experience Designer

BBC

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BBC; Broadcast Media industry)

November 1998 — November 2004 (6 years 1 month)

1998 – 2004 BBC New Media.
Design strategy, design direction. Helping with adoption of user centred design approaches within the BBC and mentored designers, developers and producers alike in this methodology developing a flexible, agile approach to designing user interaction across the BBC.

Helped develop the bbc.co.uk’s global navigation, homepage and ‘top level’ architecture driven by my interest in creating appropriate and engaging emotional associations between user, product and company.

Managed: both small and large design teams as design/creative lead and line-manager. Provided art direction to designers on short- and long-term projects. It was a lot of fun.
User Experience Designer

Oyster Partners

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

January 1997 — November 1998 (1 year 11 months)

Back in the days of Web 1.0. Pioneering days exploring early methods for UE design. Designed websites for, among many others, MTV Europe and the Art Council.
Web Designer

Webmedia

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

October 1994 — January 1997 (2 years 4 months)

Joined Webmedia in its first year, a new company, designing this new thing "web sites". A company described by some as the "seminal web agency of mid- 90s Internet-crazed London" (Mike Butcher). We had some big clients and for everyone of them it was their first foray in to the web world: Alliance & Leicester, Nationwide, Lloyds TSB, Lufthansa, and Bodyshop, among others.

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Gideon Bullock’s Interests:

A wide set of interests from music production to photography to film making to history, particularly Anglo Saxon .. and, of course, technology. Sometimes I mash them together. I've set up a now long running podcast for Shallow Shorts and helped out where I can with the Cannes in a Van project. I'm a regular DJ and helping hand at 99p records a charity club night over in East London. I also enjoy a round golf (depending on my game) and the odd spot of gardening.