United Kingdom

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

BA (Hons)

Nick Clement

Product Design / Creative Director + Designer

Communication

Collaboration

Team player

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

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

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

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

Talk to other immigrants about the nuances and challenges of working in the tech industry.

Being an immigrant in tech

Keeping your sanity, career growth and job satisfaction.

Surviving a merger or acquisition

Navigating micro-aggression, getting paid what you are worth and finding a community.

Being a woman in tech

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

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

Design career path

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Acing technical interview questions

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

Methods of prototyping and solution validation. When to use which kind of prototype (eg. Webflow, Notion, etc)

Prototyping methods and tips

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

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

Managing being the only designer at your company and working with non-designers.

Being the only designer

Explore different generative and evaluative research techniques. User research synthesis and presentation.

Conducting good user research

Ways and resources to improve your design skills.

Improving design skills

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

How to create personas, and leverage them in design.

Creating and leveraging user personas

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

How to conduct interviews, what to ask, and how to analyze your results? (eg. user interview)

Conducting effective customer interviews

What are design systems and how to work with them?

Building successful design systems

As an independent Product + Design Director I'm passionate about creation, whether it's crafting a user-friendly product, establishing a burgeoning brand, or innovating solutions through strategic thinking, research, and storytelling. Lately, I've had the privilege of collaborating with esteemed companies like Nike, Google, Checkout, MoonPay, and Canyon, assisting them in shaping their products and ventures.

My expertise lies in designing and developing user interfaces and software products. I leverage my understanding of branding and user experience to drive the design process.

Partnering with top-tier digital agencies, product studios, enterprise firms, Web3 startups, and metaverse visionaries, including R/GA, HUGE, Rehab Studio, Fjord, 8 Inc, Poke, Bttr, and the BBC, among others, I focus on refining and enhancing digital products. My approach emphasizes simplicity, quality, and functionality.

Whether you're launching a product, building a brand, starting a business, or seeking a refresh, I'm here to help. Hire me to craft the initial iteration of your product or brand, or to elevate your existing one.

Checkout.com, is an international financial technology company which processes payments.

I sat across brand, marketing and the product teams bringing design experience to the squads.
Helped with the new rebrand, website and design system, working closely with the marketing and product team.

TurnUp — A Creative, Design + Tech meet-up • Bath, Bristol + SW

Making web3 products + experiences. Covering .com, NFT, B2B + B2C initiatives.

Envisioned a new identity, website and design system, worked closely with the founders and exec team.

• Led creative direction for high-profile clients including Nike, Google, and Meta.
• Focused on innovative web3, NFT and AI projects.

Clients: Healthcare (Enterprise), Tech Companies, Startups and Scale-ups.
Projects: B2B, B2C, Data, AI, Web3, Blockchain, Metaverse.

Engaged with the ultimate bike manufacturer marketing, engineering (industrial) and experience team, defining their digital strategy, executing user experience improvements and creating interface design patterns across the e-commerce (Salesforce) platform, preparing them digitally for upcoming brand launches.

User centric product design for a data rich agile digital transformation SaaS product. The project was a £2m new business platform for managing responses to tenders for aviation and commercial customers in 80,000 global locations previously run in spreadsheets. It resulted in an increase in employee productivity (+$0.8m pm.) and stopped ‘financial leakages’ (+$0.3m pm.) during phase 1 launch.

UX + UI design for a digital transformation product workstream for Rolls Royce (Engineering & Aerospace). Exploring requirements within the business, marrying them with user needs and expectations, then building out solutions for a data rich digital product suite for airline engine leasing customers and RR management. Working tightly with a UX researcher we co-created workshops, led business and user research, UX & UI design and testing for an MVP platform build and creating a design system. The work built trust with the client and successfully completed opening up further work for the agency.

Led the design team with a focus on custom UX and UI design frameworks for Magento 2 e-commerce development. Clients included luxury fashion and music brands such as Defected.

Led a 10+ product design team with design leadership and hands on design guidance for a newly created Virgin luxury cruise brand (Virgin Voyages) and shaped a next generation, multi-platform design system, involving a travel experience booking website, a traveller companion iOS app, on-board TV interface and digital signage.

A motoring social network — Responsible for the design of the iOS, Android + Web builds.

Co-founded a freelance marketplace SaaS startup. Funded & incubated via Seedcamp, failed to raise Series A.

Working alongside industrial designers making software for hardware.

A global creative community and events company, hosted and celebrated in 35+ cities worldwide. Based around a series of talks and informal networking, Glug became one of the most exciting, credible and well-attended global, grassroots creative industry events, tickets usually sold out in 48 hours. 
Exited 2021.

Nick Clement🇬🇧