United Kingdom

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Product Design

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

Foundation diploma

A Level

Ben Brewer

Director of Product Design

Product strategy

Communication

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Figma

Hotjar

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Methods and models of exploring, deciding and delivering design.

Building a design process

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Leading a team of 20 designers across our end to end experience, from top of funnel discovery to post-purchase and fulfilment experiences.
- Working collaboratively with Directors and Senior Leaders across the business to embed a UCD approach in everything we do at Moonpig Group across both Moonpig (UK) and Greetz (NL). 
- Prioritising key focus areas across the entire team
- Developing a compelling vision and strategy for the entire Product division and beyond
- Building an inclusive culture where people genuinely love to work
- Helping teams innovate quickly and fail fast

Helping lead and scale the Product Design team at Moonpig Group through it's next stage of growth, designing and delivering the ultimate gifting companion across mobile and web for millions of customers.

Mentoring designers on ADPList, helping them to grow their skillset and empower their personal development 💪

Leading our award winning ‘Online & Marketplace’ team of 20 diverse, multi-disciplined designers, with a mission to build the future of online shopping across Sainsbury’s, Argos, Habitat and Tu clothing, and helping to Feed The Nation 💪 I’m accountable for the user experience across 6 websites and 3 apps, including our 60 minute chop chop delivery proposition, and overseeing the migration of our entire groceries digital experience onto our new platform.

My role is incredibly broad and involves...
- Overseeing a large amount of work across multiple touch points, customer missions and brands
- Defining future strategy across multiple brands, working with ‘heads of’ in various departments to ensure we’re aligned and moving in the same direction
- Being hands on in key complex problem spaces, collaborating with my team and delegating effectively 
- Driving and building an outcome led culture, ensuring teams are always results driven
- Defining future ways of working across the broader CX team and beyond to deliver maximum impact 
- Facilitating high profile, strategic workshops with senior stakeholders
- Managing team resource and budget
- Developing and coaching those I work with, focusing on career progression and development opportunities within the broader team
- Building a high performing culture where people love to work
- Team org design 
- Performance reviews, bonus and pay allocation
- Prioritising my teams workload 
- Design Ops activities such as hosting our weekly design share, building development and competency frameworks, defining design process, advocating on behalf of our team, internal training, and much more

Leading design across workstreams in Delivery, empowering and motivating riders to provide customers with the world's best-in-class food delivery experience. Helping define our delivery strategy and quarterly outcomes so that riders' hit their earnings goals whilst getting food to customers on time, every time.

Leading the end to end user experience design across our groceries e-commerce platform (where we're rebuilding the site onto a new responsive front end), from UI, to UX, research and strategy. Accountable for all areas of the site, from 'discovery' to 'decide' and 'buy'. Driving data led decisions across the organisation and aligning the team around shared quarterly outcomes based on customer insight.

Working in a fast paced agile environment, helping define strategy and ingest design thinking throughout various retail focused products. Doing full service design and working with teams across the business helping them adopt a lean, hypothesis focused approach to their work, from marketing to digital, ergonomics and format design.

These include in-store experiences across a variety of digital and physical platforms with SmartShop (doing full service design), as well as many other digital products on iOS, Android and responsive web, from single sign on, to payments (including redesigning the new self checkouts in-store), security, digital strategy, and most recently launching Mobile Payments in SmartShop away from the checkouts! Read coverage from the BBC and Telegraph below.

Responsible for all design output for the projects I work on, including research, testing, accessibility, copy writing, UX and UI design, CX and strategy.

🏆Winner of 2 UXUK 2018 awards for 'Best Innovation' and 'Best Transactional Experience' with SmartShop 🏆- https://www.uxukawards.com/past-awards/2018-winners/

User experience designer UX/UI at Sainsbury's Digital Lab.

Working on a variety of eCommerce projects for groceries online and more, including security and authentication, store locator and SmartShop.

Interaction and experience design across a variety of platforms, from Android and iOS to STB, XBOX, TV and PC/Mac. I helped define and build a white label solution for many of our global clients, from product strategy to research, information architecture, roadmaps, wireframes, interface design and testing.

I worked in a versatile design team who design video applications across a range of screen sizes and devices, for many leading companies around the world.

Saffron Digital provide and build connected video, DRM, and platform services.

Saffron's Awards include the Mobile Entertainment Award for Best Video and TV service provider 5 years in a row (2009-2013), the Media Momentum award in 2010 and 11, and is a Guardian Top 100 Tech Media Invest company in the UK

Global clients include: BT, Carrefour, KDDI, HTC, ITV, TeleBoy, Samsung, LG, Blockbuster, NBC Universal, Paramount, and T-Mobile

Working as a UI designer across all mobile platforms (iOS, Android and Windows), and also for responsive web, set top box, TV and XBox. Working mostly in Photoshop and Sketch.

Responsible for managing a versatile test team, who ensure all content and services are of the highest standard before being made ready for public release across Android, iOS, connected TV, STB and web, for multiple high priority clients.

Working in a fast moving industry, where processes and requirements are changing all the time, it's important to be prepared and organised for whatever is asked of the team. My main responsibilities include team organisation, making sure we are prepared for upcoming projects and have the right systems and procedures in place, in depth testing analysis of all content and services including reporting issues back to their origin, also being a creative problem solver to overcome any obstacles in the teams way. We often have to work to tight deadlines, so passionate hard work is key, and for me to make sure my team have what they need to meet deadlines.

I'm often required to interact with all other teams in the business, working closely with project managers, product managers, developers, account managers and the commercial teams.

Projects we are currently working on are mainly in the smartphone space, but also working with connected TV, web, iOS, Android, STB and tablet.

Ben Brewer🇬🇧