Category: Design Ops

  • UX Brighton

    Well it’s been a while! But I was very glad to having bought my ticket and headed into Brighton to attend this conference once again. Really good to see it up and running again after the break for the pandemic and good to attend a design orientated conference. I also caught up with some old…

  • Design Collaboration

    We have a new member of my budding design team! I’m very pleased to welcome our latest employee, an experienced UX/UI Designer, who will be working along me in our wider product team. This increases our company’s product design capacity and gives valuable design collaboration opportunities to our product owners, stakeholders, developers and of course…

  • UX/UI Backlog

    I’ve been working on a design audit of our live products, I’m looking for anything that will help us bring together our cross product look and feel. Picking up anything that is inconsistent in the UI and generally aiming for brand unity. Following on from this recent work I’m capturing the UI and UX inconsistencies…

  • Product UI Consistency

    It can be a challenge bringing consistency to multiple products which are available from the same company. It’s important to present a uniform look and feel to the end user so they can see the relationship within the product suite. I’m currently working on a group of products that have been developed with by seperate…

  • Style Guides

    At the start of the year I took on a new challenge and a new job. I’m now working for a Uk based NHS approved supplier and again find myself as the sole lead UI/UX designer tasked with bringing consistency to an established product suite. Working in the product team I began this project with…

  • Design System Testing

    The design system project that I’m currently leading on is moving forward well. We are now in the testing phase after building out our digital product UI components in Figma with a Zeroheight front end. We are testing with a small group of developers and test analysts which have been made available from our scrum…

  • Design System Governance

    I’m working on the governance process for our new design system, this sets out how the system will be used by our product teams. We work in agile so this is a key consideration when planning the system’s work flow. Our system will be based on our digital products that we offer to B2B and…

  • Design Systems

    I’m currently leading on a design system project to help bring consistancy and streamline our design component production. It is the first step in a large project which is going to involve close collaboration with our UX design, development and test teams. At the end of last year I produced a proof of concept of…

  • UX Brighton

    I attended UX Brighton last week, a conference which focuses on UX (User Experience), it was inspiring with a good mix of speaker. This year the theme was design which I particularly enjoyed as I’ve worked in this field for many years. The conferenece was well organised and has info packed talks form a range…