London
+44 (0) 20 3740 5261
Stephen Rickett
UX/UI Consultant
About
An accomplished UX/UI consultant with a multi-disciplinary skillset encompassing design, research and development, approaching twenty years of experience in the profession. Well placed to create innovative designs and user interfaces.
An Adobe user and hand-coder for the web since around 1995. Spanning design, web development, project/programme management, user experience, interaction design and usability testing. A proven track record for completing time sensitive and complex projects with accuracy and efficiency. Ability to work under pressure, meet deadlines and multitask. Always focussed on user centred design.
Ability to collaborate with stakeholders, project managers, visual designers and developers. Sensitive to the needs of end-users with exposure to an array of working styles (design sprints, agile, lean and waterfall). Extensive experience of the end-to-end UX/UI process across a breadth of industries: legal, banking, insurance, consultancy, education, manufacture and medical.
A native English speaker, with strong copywriting, editing and proofreading skills and a good eye for detail. Natural-born problem solver who can communicate effectively with both clients and colleagues. Friendly and personable!
Expertise
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requirements gathering
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information architecture
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design and production of projects from brief to fulfilment
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user-centred design
05
user-centred design
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frontend
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html/css/js production
08
prototyping
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art direction
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team mentoring
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project management (agile/scrum/waterfall)
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workshopping with clients
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presentation
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usability testing and accessibility audit
Skills
Adobe Creative Suite
Axure RP
Sketch
SharePoint
Microsoft Office
OmniGraffle
HTML5/CSS3
LESS/SASS
XML/XSLT
JavaScript
Experience
See CV for complete work history
September 2019–Present
RenaissanceRe
Senior UX/UI Designer
London
November 2014–September 2019
MasterPage
UX/UI Consultant
London
March 2013–November 2014
sysdoc
Technical Consultant
London
- Sharepoint frontend design
- Balsamiq wireframing
- Working mainly for large corporates across multiple industries
- Design and development of Vodafone Technology Academy
Maintaining client relationships with a wide range of the company's clients including: Vodafone, Marine Stewardship Council, Jaguar Land Rover, Deutsche Bank and Elsevier. Frontend design, prototyping and wire framing. Coding from designs in HTML/CSS/JS/JQuery. Exposure to Javascript MVC, optimising for older browsers, and responsive layout. SharePoint master page manipulation, site maintenance.
November 2009–March 2013
MasterPage
UX/UI Consultant
London
- Creating and maintaining client relationships
- Front-end web development
- Wire-framing with Axure, Sketch and Balsamiq
- Hi-fi mockups
- Click-through prototyping
- Theme/module creation for Joomla! and Drupal
Working primarily for London-based organisations including Pretium Securities, REX, Zello Inc. (US) and others Developed an in-house invoice and time management billing system in PHP, including the ability to create on-the-fly branded PDF invoices. Brand identity strategy, documentation and implementation
Education
1997 – 2001
London Guildhall University
Degree: BA Accounting with Multimedia
London, England
1989 – 1997
The Plume School
GCSE: Logic, Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, English Language/English Literature, Economics and French. A-Level: Mathematics, Philosophy, Music AS, Physics AS, Business Studies AS, and General Studies
Maldon, Essex
Design/Delivery
Brands
Some of the brands I've worked with...
Interests
Travelled to Kathmandu and trekked to Everest. Enjoy living and working between London and Cambridge. A keen pianist, guitarist and singer. Enthusiastic photographer. Time supporting a Children's cancer charity in Tanzania recently proved very rewarding. I maintain a home network of several Windows-based servers. Home automation and gadgets keep me amused when I'm not promoting concerts, eating out or exercising!