United Kingdom

UX Design

Design Operations

Product Design

Front-end

Interaction Design

UX Testing

Bachelors

✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 Diversity & Inclusion

Karl Goldstraw

Senior Accessibility Designer

Usability Testing

Typography

Product strategy

Prototyping

Empathy

Stakeholder management

Accessibility

Design systems

Optimal Workshop

Figma

GitHub

HTML

Jira

Miro

Sketch

In my role at HL, I work within the design system team, helping to embed accessibility into our components, patterns and best practice. I regularly help with auditing, design feedback and coding implementation. 

I also work as part of the centralised accessibility team to help transform our accessibility practices business wide. As part of this, I collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to provide advice and governance, whilst also feeding back into the wider organisational strategy for accessibility.

I love my job.

We started building an accessible, scalable multi platform design system. 

Our work was based around user need, standards and best practice through the lens of WCAG compliance and accessibility persona’s.

I was the lead designer and product owner of Elekta’s new enterprise software design system. I created and implemented design ops including ways of working and user centred design-thinking. This included building a community and it’s processes to transform the way that the organisation sees design.

I was a constant advocate for accessibility and I was a key contact with our sales and legal departments for compliance with the new title 3 of ADA in the US, which included compliance with pitch requirements.

I have created and implemented design team ways of working and user centred design-thinking, including building a community and it’s processes to transform the way that the organisation sees design and accessibility.

I’ve built a roadmap of epics and tasks that we now work through in lean 2 week sprints. I conduct sprint planning and retro and champion the format of team show and tells to create transparency and trust in our team.

I was a senior designer working on the NHS website, I designed and built accessible services such as find my NHS number, worked on the Covid booking service blueprints as a service designer and I was the lead designer for the service manual team (design system).

In addition to my day to day work, I organised the London design huddles, building a weekly community of designer show and tells.

I organised code clubs for colleagues and volunteered at STEMETTE weekend events to push semantic design and user centred thinking.

I led the visual design of the new case management system which now forms the backbone of the organisation CRM offering. 

Within my role, I visited Citizen Advice locations and interviewed service users to inform the prototyping of various modules within the system. The new case management system is WCAG compliant and we regularly tested with users via DAC who had access requirements.

Working across many different sectors over 5 years allowed me to gain a wide understanding of many sectors, from building online classrooms to connect tutors and students, to building the Surrey police website and content management system. 

With different clients I worked with different skills, including service design, interaction design, front end and branding.

My role at bandstand spanned a broad digital and branding spectrum. At times the sole digital designer for the company, I had to lead across many different digital campaigns and projects at any one time, presenting to prospective clients in tenders and solutions to existing client briefs. 

Areas of experience included:

- Proposal writing
- Planning / sitemaps / tech Specs
- Wireframing
- Service design
- Front end development (HTML, CSS, JS)
- Cross browser testing 
- Domain & email management

As a junior designer I took part in concept generation and project planning of both print and digital projects. I liaised directly with print houses, developers, clients and project managers as a part of a small team of three designers. 

My portfolio spanned between print, digital and TV media campaigns.

Ryan Duncan

Senior Frontend Engineer

Themis García

UX Designer

Sueon Ahn

Junior User Research

Renata Czuba

UX designer

Bring along either an existing portfolio or your designs for a new portfolio. It's really important when looking for your next career move that your portfolio itself demonstrates your commitment to inclusive design. I will review your portfolio with you and suggest amends or improvements to it to help you become more accessible. I will also suggest ways you can test your own portfolio after the session.

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