Ant Tyler

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  • Happy New Year!

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    Wishing you all the best for the coming year! I hope that you will find creativity and positivity wherever you might be or go!

  • Design Leadership

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    I’ve been reading around the subject of design leadership to apply to my current role. As I lead a design team I want to produce and see created the highest quality design work. For this to happen I aim to inspire my team members as much as possible. Clear direction, team motivation and communication are…

  • Design Teams

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    I’ve been working on expanding my design team to further support our product owners and development teams. Increased design capacity can help to support a wide range of visualisation and creative outputs that will benefit the whole company. Getting the right fit is really improtant and ensuring that a new designer feels comfortable and welcome…

  • UI Review and Design Systems

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    I’m leading on a UI review of one of our premium products looking at common UI components. This is to unify our front end to further improve the professional look and feel for this product and to ensure that our screens reflect our brand. I’m also looking at UI consistency so that common elements render…

  • Design Concepts

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    I’m currently working ahead of production on design concepts for our projects that are in the discovery phase. Based on stakeholder requirements these concepts help to flesh out the digital solution that will eventually be built by our development teams. The concepts will typically cover the key screens that will enable users to perform certain…

  • Mobile Competition

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    I’ve been looking at the competition for our app in the healthcare sector here in the UK. It’s a good process to review what’s available to our clients and the NHS trusts that we supply. There is a limit to what you can see without access to these systems but you can see reviews, ratings…

  • Mobile Style Guide

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    We’ve just released our mobile specific style guide, this builds on and compliments our desktop style guide which was released at the start of this year. This guide is the latest collaboration with my design team, we have been working on this alongside new feature and BAU work. This guide captures our mobile optimised design…

  • User Feedback

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    Working on recent products has highlighted to me again the importance of testing usability with actual end users. This step can sometimes be overlooked when product teams are deep in stakeholder requirements and writing user stories. Getting prototypes infront of actual users in the early discovery phase of a project can save a lot of…

  • User Testing Prototypes

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    I’m currently building two Figma prototypes for a new NHS rostering solution that has a unique approach for the sector. The prototypes demonstrate the user journeys for two user groups of the new system. I’m working in close collaboration with our POs to refine the final prototypes ahead of user testing to validate our ideas…

  • UI/UX Improvements

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    I’m looking at making some UI/UX improvements to two of our products to improve usability and address inconsistent UI elements. Working with our product owners and senior developers we’re going through user stories that I’ve created based on live system adjustments to our UI. I’m writing my user stories to keep these improvements end-user focused…