Freelance User Experience Architect
London, United Kingdom
Freelance User Experience Architect
London, United Kingdom
My experience enables me to impact many levels of an interactive digital software product, business strategy, front end technical architecture, interaction and interface design, information architecture, usability, accessibility, hands on product development and generally evangelising the user experience at every stage.
Interactive design, Information Architecture, W3C development, Accessibility consultancy & production, User Experience design, Rich Media Application design & development, team management, conceptual & strategic thinking
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
November 2007 — Present (9 months)
A ground breaking internet based startup requires a cutting edge web based application to allow the advanced administration of highly configurable services but make it easy enough that your gran could use it.
An exciting and challenging project that requires conceptual thinking, architectural and visual design and then the ability to get your hands dirty and actually build the thing.
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Internet industry)
November 2001 — Present (6 years 9 months)
Director
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; AQNT; Marketing and Advertising industry)
August 2007 — October 2007 (3 months)
Part of a small team (almost an iterative agile process) with a fast turn around of www.bethefullstop.com
Responsible for the interactive design & build of the front end and all AJAX, web2.0 fluff etc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
February 2007 — August 2007 (7 months)
Interaction designer and front end developer for the RI3K suite of web based software applications for the international insurance industry.
User Experience designer for experimental new applications for the RI3K software suite. This meant lots of brain storming and concept development from paper sketches to database driven prototypes.
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
December 2006 — February 2007 (3 months)
Lead IA and Interaction Designer for major airline.
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Legislative Office industry)
March 2006 — December 2006 (10 months)
Freelance position as front end lead on large scale public sector project. I'm responsible for working with the clients and in-house business analysts to develop requirements that can be transalted into viable design & technical solutions due to my production background.
Responsible for Interaction design, User Interface design and development of the UI.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
September 2005 — February 2006 (6 months)
Freelance member of a small web department doing the lot just like the old days. Design, development, concept development, Information Architecture, User groups.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Online Media industry)
December 2004 — August 2005 (9 months)
Design director for a small start-up targetting the games sector. We put together some cutting edge broadband flash games - Who Wants to be A Millionaire & Deal or No Deal - for clients including TF-1 and Celador.
Web applications and simple sites were also the order of the day.
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)
March 2004 — October 2004 (8 months)
Lead User Interface developer and designer for white label advertising system.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry)
June 2002 — January 2004 (1 year 8 months)
Freelance designer and developer for a multitude of projects out west in that burning ring of fire.
MediaLab Arts, Interactive multimedia, 1995 — 1999