Alex Ford
Product designer & front-end developer with over 10 years' experience crafting thoughtful, impactful & memorable digital products.
Led UI design on major e-commerce product for an international live marketing client. Developed a comprehensive Figma-based design system to improve UI consistency, handoff process & code reuse across two separate project squads. Role ending in January 2023 due to redundancy.
Led end-to-end design process for several clients at a small digital experience agency. Delivered research, user flows, workshops, wireframes, high-fidelity prototypes, and responsive UI output. Managed feature backlog/roadmap, organised stakeholder review & usability testing sessions. Mentored two junior designers within the team.
Instrumental in delivering the organisation's digital transformation project (DTP), comprising an extensible design system for use on first/third-party platforms.
Led design on the organisation's flagship Brontë Design System while working with a team of front-end engineers to develop counterpart React.js UI component library. Collaborated with UX researchers to discover & address accessibility requirements. Defined product workflow & jointly managed feature backlog/roadmap.
Led product design at an award-winning luxury villa rental agency. Delivered research, user flows, wireframes, high-fidelity prototypes, and responsive UI output. Conceived & developed geolocation search feature responsible for a 23% increase in new customer conversion rate.
- Product Design
- UX/UI Design
- Design Systems
- Usability Testing
- Visual Design
- Research
- Workshops
- Front-End Development
- UI Development
- Figma
- Sketch
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
- InDesign
- Vue.js
- Javascript
- Sass
- GSAP
- VS Code