Emma Smith UX and Interaction designer

About me

I collaborate with creative teams, technologists and entrepreneurs to dream up new ideas in digital. I’m interested in human psychology and creating emotive sensory experiences that blur the line between physical and digital. Curious and interested in people, anything and everything with a knack for spotting opportunities and making connections. Currently a resident at Fusebox Brighton (a hub for digital innovators, tech visionaries and creative technologists) prototyping interactive and immersive experiences with VR, AR and IOT. See link to blog below: I also write stories and make comics in my spare time. Ideation • Idea generation • Exploring possibilities of new platforms and technologies • Spotting challenges and opportunities in stories from research • Making new connections with existing themes and concepts • Surfacing opportunities for engagement around the edges of the experience • Visual storytelling through sketching and storyboarding Strategy • Roadmap strategy and prioritisation • Strategy and tactics for user research and testing UX and Design • Solving sticky design challenges • Lean design for digital products. Prototypes, PoCs and MVPs: focusing in and designing only the most important things to test an idea. • Personas and empathy maps with rich insights to inspire the design • Experience and journey mapping to uncover challenges and opportunities • User flows to describe the specific task and interactions • Creating and augmenting design systems • A bit of in-app copy

Questions Projects Experience Team

Projects

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Bored Games creative activities and gamesSupercharge the artists and inventors of the future with creative thinking and doing through fun, imaginative play
Bored GamesBored Games is a free playbook of fun games, creative activities and family challenges designed to get kids using their imagination and families playing together. www.boredgames.club
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Restore Factory SettingsA user experience designer's journey into the world of storytelling, interaction and immersion. https://restorefactorysettings.blog/

Projects credited in

The Study CollectionThe British artists film and video study collection is part of the Central Saint Martins Museum and contains a wealth of important historic British moving image art. The curator wanted to bring the collection to life for students, researchers and the art world to experience. Creative direction of experience design for digital collection Brand messaging for the website Created promotional film with the Curator

Work history

User Experience DirectorThis is Hatch limited

Apr 2011 - Mar 2018Brighton, United KingdomFull Time

Design and innovation studio Inventing digital products for startups and brands

Skills

Interaction Design
UX
Prototyping
Virtual Reality
Drawing
Comic Art
Storytelling
Concept Creation
Innovation
Experience Mapping