Category: UX
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Mobile Style Guide
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…
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User Feedback
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…
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User Testing Prototypes
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…
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UI/UX Improvements
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…
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Staff Organisation
It is sometimes a significant UI/UX challenge to design solutions for systems that will help organise large staff groups. In my current role I’m working on new ways to roster NHS staff for large UK based trusts. Keeping complex systems easy to use for the main user groups is very important in my user centred…
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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…
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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…
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Rostering Solutions
My current UI/UX challenge is designing a complex rostering solution for NHS workers. Working in close collaboration with our stakeholders, product owners and the development teams we have been progressing through our user stories. We are working towards producing an intuaitive solution for the busy keyworkers in our hospitals. This is part of a larger…
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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…
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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…