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DESIGN • RESEARCH • ILLUSTRATION • LEADERSHIP • WORKSHOPS • MENTORING •
Hi, I’m chris. creative Deep-diver, design wizard, doodler of monsters, and shiba dad 🦊
I am a seasoned multidisciplinary digital product designer with over 10 years of experience working with national and international organizations. My adventures span sectors like motorsports, children’s education, HR, and the UK’s National Health Service (NHS), supporting both B2B and B2C customers.
I’ve collaborated with teams of all sizes, providing support, insight, and guidance. I am a loyal, hard-working, and flexible team member, ensuring clear communication with internal stakeholders (CEOs, directors, CS, tech, etc.) and transparency with external stakeholders through customer workshops, product seminars, and user research campaigns.
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Years design experience. That’s approx. 20,800 hours.
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Positive feedback from past employers.
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Design philosophy workshops led.
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Mugs of, excuse me… damn fine coffee consumed.
Supporting great BRANDS like:
Honesty, loyalty, and inclusivity are the alchemy of great product design.
I’m passionate about sharing design knowledge to help the whole team grow and support colleagues curious about exploring a career in product design.
With strong values, we can overcome anything together. Creativity doesn’t exist in a vacuum, but rather, thrives when supported by the input and feedback of others. We work bigger, better, and create better products together.
With strong values, we can overcome anything together. Creativity doesn’t exist in a vacuum, but rather, thrives when supported by the input and feedback of others. We work bigger, better, and create better products together.
Recent Works
BLKBX.me
Figma, Procreate, VS Code, Assembly
BLKBX is a low-dependency Virtual Machine designed for the creation of advanced Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) systems.
With a focus on permacomputing principles, BLKBX emphasizes sustainability by optimizing efficiency, reducing resource consumption, and extending the lifecycle of both hardware and software.
This vision democratizes information, enabling people with limited access to the latest devices to harness critical (and potentially life-saving) data, even when offline.
With a focus on permacomputing principles, BLKBX emphasizes sustainability by optimizing efficiency, reducing resource consumption, and extending the lifecycle of both hardware and software.
This vision democratizes information, enabling people with limited access to the latest devices to harness critical (and potentially life-saving) data, even when offline.
OpenBlend
Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Procreate, Dovetail, Hubspot, Pendo, JIRA, Agile BDD
Contributed as a digital product designer as part of an incredible engineering team at this vibrant startup.
Focused on working with our customers to gain valuable insight into friction areas of our product, then prototyped, designed, and tested viable usability updates.
An exciting, fast-paced role supporting clients such as Superdry, Dr. Martens, Lacoste, and Gymshark.
Focused on working with our customers to gain valuable insight into friction areas of our product, then prototyped, designed, and tested viable usability updates.
An exciting, fast-paced role supporting clients such as Superdry, Dr. Martens, Lacoste, and Gymshark.
Multitone
Figma, Adobe XD, Adobe Creative Suite
Collaborated closely with the NHS to understand both benefits and limitations of existing internal communications.
Designed and tested MVP communications applications that supported the critical needs of emergency staff during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Challenged internal waterfall procedures and worked with our engineering team to pioneer agile methodology to better support the rapidly evolving needs of vital hospital staff.
Designed and tested MVP communications applications that supported the critical needs of emergency staff during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Challenged internal waterfall procedures and worked with our engineering team to pioneer agile methodology to better support the rapidly evolving needs of vital hospital staff.
Lakeshore Learning
Adobe Creative Suite, InVision, VS Code (HTML, CSS, JS, Knockout.js), JIRA, Adobe AEM, Oracle CMS
Worked as part of a small UX team within the wider e-commerce department to research, design, test, and build a successful new iteration of Lakeshore’s world-class e-commerce platform.
An exciting role requiring broad versatility, I enjoyed many disciplines; from designer of core site components, to illustrator, front-end developer, code-reviewer, and UXUI spokesperson.
An exciting role requiring broad versatility, I enjoyed many disciplines; from designer of core site components, to illustrator, front-end developer, code-reviewer, and UXUI spokesperson.
What people are saying
NICK STURGE
CTO, Openblend
Chris was in my team at OpenBlend for just about 2 years. I strongly recommend Chris to anyone considering working with him – I would collaborate with him again in a heartbeat. I found Chris to be thoughtful, warm, fun, insightful, caring, hard-working, passionate. He wants to understand the motivations of the users of his products, as well as considering best-practice design principles. This drives him to create designs that work well, look good, and meet the needs of the end-user as well as the needs of his client/business.
John Lynch
UX Director, Lakeshore Learning
Over the 5 years Christopher worked with me as a Sr. UI/UX Designer, I saw him grow into a engaging and charismatic leader with a keen eye for quality. His level of technical prowess was without question, and the passion he brought to all of his work was truly inspiring to myself and the other members of our team. Christopher has a unique ability to marry his artistic talent with the practical and the empathetic. He creates designs that are timeless, while maintaining an awareness of the modern trends seen in Product and UX design. Christopher puts all of himself into his work and his results reflect that.
Frank Nelson
Creative Director, Vance & Hines
Christopher is gifted with a unique skill set. Having worked with him for many years he has proven to possess all the intangibles that don’t show up on resumes, he is honest, dedicated, loyal, and passionate in everything he does and will greatly be missed. His experience and skill level with design (graphic and web), illustration and motion graphics mixed with his genuine personality, intelligence and patience will make him a perfect fit anywhere he goes. Thanks Chris!!