About me
A thoughtful, passionate design leader with over 20 years of experience delivering successful projects and products with leading in-house teams, agencies and clients on TV, mobile and web.
I believe in trust and autonomy in my team and my role as an enabler of the design process. I have managed and built successful collaborative teams capable of framing complex problems, and created inspiring human-centred solutions — using a blend of research, creativity, empathy, systems thinking (and tenacity).
For the past 6 and a half years I worked at Sky, joining as a Design Lead on the team that created Sky Q. I left as Head of Design having built and led the Product Design team responsible for many of Sky’s consumer facing products — Sky Q, Sky Go, Sky+ and Sky Kids — across the UK and Ireland, Italy, Germany and Austria.
Previously I have led teams that defined and delivered the award winning TV platform, YouView; kickstarted (and later, evolved) the BBC’s Global Visual Language that became known as GEL; and designed O2’s Blue Dawn visual design language.
Work history
Head of DesignSky
- London, United KingdomFull Time
Responsible for leading and directing a team of Creative Directors and Product Designers on Sky’s consumer facing products — Sky Q, Sky Go, Sky+ and Sky Kids.
- Created a collaborative single design culture from several design teams within Sky
- Managed, inspired and mentored a team of Creative Directors.
- Improved collaboration and product development practices across product and development teams
- Facilitated workshops and design sprints to collaborate on customer-centric design problems and features — using research, insights and data.
- Regularly presented strategy and execution to Directors and Executives.
- Evangelised Design Systems thinking across our products.
Creative DirectorSky
- London, United KingdomFull Time
Part of a trio of Creative Directors responsible for the direction and management of several UX/UI design teams at Sky
- Managed, inspired and mentored a team of Product Designers of all levels.
- Managed the design quality of the team and its operations.
- Facilitated workshops and design sprints to collaborate on customer-centric design problems and features — using research, insights and data.
- Created team rituals, ran critiques and provided creative direction.
- Prepared design and research briefs, working closely with product and research teams.
- Regularly presented design concepts and execution up to and including Executive level.
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Skills
- Art Direction
- Mobile
- Typography
- Design
- Web Design
- Creative Direction
- Web Interface Design
- Icon Design
- Illustrator
- Indesign
- Photoshop
- UX Design
- UI Design
- Television Interface Design
- Creative Leadership
- Design Leadership
- Leadership
Education
BA (Hons) Multimedia DesignDe Montfort University
- Leicester, United Kingdom