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Born and raised in Walthamstow, North East London from a St Lucian and Jamaican family heritage. Dominic has been freelancing for his entire career in London for the last 13 years as a design and creative professional. Working across over 80+ design and creative projects for the likes of Toyota, Lexus, Atradius, IKEA, FIFA, Rolls Royce Motors, Macallan, Charlotte Tilbury and more.
He has been hired by many industry leading design and creative agencies such as AKQA, Critical Mass, ustwo, HUGE, EY Seren and Dalziel & Pow to name a few.
He dedicated his life to pursue a career in the design and creative field at just the age of 19 with no prior experience. He failed fast, adjusted faster and self-educated himself with the broad scope of skills, expertise and services he provides his clients till this day.
Dominic is widely recognised by his peers, clients and collaborators for his leadership qualities, focus, motivation, drive, work ethic and passion for his meticulous work, collaborations and self development. He is constantly hungry to improve his design, creative and business capabilities. In addition to guiding, nurturing and mentoring other designers, creatives and professionals.
His clients seek his advisory and guidance to both direct and execute design and creative work for their project needs. He is uninterrupted in his pursuit to improve his ability to articulate and visualise his thoughts, ideas and observations after a history of dyslexia. In addition to his broad and dynamic ability to provide value as a multi-hyphenate professional.
Livingston is persistently driven and triggered by opportunities, obstacles and issues that consumers and businesses face together or separately. He lives by his willing attitude and drive to continue learning from every project, user and experience that his life and work connects him with.
Projects
- Work Hard Insure Easy by AXAEarlier in 2021 AXA insurance approached Dominic to feature within their Work Hard Insure Easy campaign. The purpose of the campaign is driven by showcasing real small business owners who are real business insurance customers of AXA. Dominic has been a customer with AXA since 2018. He relies on their support to provide him with Public Liability Insurance and Professional Indemnity Insurance for his business D24. These tailored policies reflect how Dominic engages with his clients and enables hi
Projects credited in
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Work history
Freelance Senior Product DesignerAKQA
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Co-leading the product design experience execution of a comprehensive design system for a global
automative client. Capturing the requirements from both the business and users from their collective
feedback either through feedback either through qualitative and quantitative data to inform further
design improvements, new design solutions and complete redesign of relative parts of the
experience. Working in sync with development teams and partners, data partners and key
stakeholders across several markets across Europe.
In addition to:
‣ Introducing a design accessibility framework to manage, address and respond to accessibility
requirements that Product Owners from the client side were escalating from the experiences
across their two respective brands. In order to understand whether these requirements required
Design QA, Design Action or Development Action to resolve them. Leading the design framework,
guidance and execution for addressing the WCAG 1.4.4 Text Resizing, Colour Contrast Issues and
1.4.10 Reflow 400% Zoom for the experience across all brand sites - for the implication
components raised by Product Owners.
‣ Leading an accessibility grooming audit exercise - looking at over 70 tickets raised within JIRA. To
improve the quality and detail execution of the ticket, to ensure that the design team could
address the tickets based on client requirements and accessibility requirements from the WCAG.
‣ Leading competitor analysis and benchmarking research across two projects focused on the EV
Market across 7 key markets in Europe and Offers / Promotions across 3 key Europe markets.
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Chief ExecutiveD24
London, United KingdomFull Time
Diversified
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Skills
- UI Design
- UX Design
- Digital UX
- Creative Direction
- Creative Strategy
- Product Strategy
- Design
- Design Direction
- Experience Design
- Experience Strategy