- guy@solven.co.uk
+447545312996
My Experience
About Me
I have been employed in the field of design for over 16 years. I am a user interface design consultant with expertise in a wide range of development disciplines. I love all forms of digital design and have a large skill set that crosses several different mediums such as designing for UI & mobile devices, motion graphics, print design, and photography.
I am a passionate and inventive designer who loves big and small projects. Accustomed to performing in deadline-driven environments with an emphasis on working within budget requirements. I apply hard work, determination, professionalism, and the highest standards to all projects. With an established track record, I am a dependable designer on any high-profile demanding projects; able to demonstrate extraordinary determination and resilience in order to establish a compelling design proposition.
My Skills
- superior skills with Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator
- solid understanding of web design CSS, HTML, and WordPress
- strong foundation in print design, branding, analog/digital printing
- strong skills in After Effects and motion graphics
- familiar with 3D applications, geometric modeling, digital sculpting
- interested in photography and video editing
- strong understanding of digital art and photo manipulation
- familiar with the music production process
I have
- passion for user interface design, with a focus on building functional and usable products
- high self-motivation in working individually and closely with other teams
- strong eye for clean, pixel perfect design and relentless attention to detail
- strong sense of design theory and typography
- in-depth knowledge of responsive web design
I love
- great collaboration, big ideas, and great relationships
- traveling the world, exploring new places
- windsurfing, surfing, mountain biking, and walking
- listening to mostly electronic music, I also love Djing when I have the time
- cooking and experimenting with food and eating
Job Experience
- Infotainment UI designer – Contract
- Bentley Motors
- March 2017 – May 2020. Crewe, United Kingdom.
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Bentley – The New Flying Spur
Bentley – The New Bentayga - Over the past 3 years, I have been working as a Lead Designer across both the Electronic Engineering and Styling
departments at Bentley Motors. Working on various projects such as, creating a new user interface for a touch screen remote that has been implemented into the new Flying Spur. As well, as creating the new main unit and touch screen remote for the Bentayga facelift, which is going to be released in the next few months. In addition, I was a key stakeholder in the UI direction for the My Bentley Mobile Application that allows a user to control a Bentley from their mobile phone. 
- Senior UI designer – Contract
- ADP – Cloud-based Human Capital Management
- November 2016 – February 2017. Bristol, United Kingdom.
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- Using Sketch, Zeplin, and Brand AI I created a design system and component library for ADP that allows the design and development teams to create new user journeys using components and styling that can be seamlessly synced with any new UI design change. Allowing quick updates to the UI styling within existing artwork which in turn really helped speed up the design and development time of the new product.
- UI designer – Remote contract
- Super User Studio
- April 2016 – October 2016 Bath, United Kingdom.
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View Thomsons Benefits website - Whilst working for Super User Studio, I created a new UI design system and component library for Thomsons Online Benefits. This project was a full overhaul of the existing user interface, which included making a fully functional prototype and admin portal for the current product, before creating the new user interface and design system. Thomsons Online Benefits are providers of employee benefits for large enterprise organisations. They take care of employees pensions, insurance, spending accounts, holiday trading, medical, dental.
- UI designer – Remote contract
- Super User Studio
- February 2016 – April 2016. Bath, United Kingdom.
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- As a part of the Super User Studio team, I created a UI design system for Vuelio.co.uk (UK Media Database). This was a complete overhaul of the existing user interface using Sketch and Zeplin to streamline the design process, I created a library of UI components allowing the development team at Vuelio to easily rebuild existing pages and add new functionality when needed.
- Digital design – Contract
- Pets at Home
- November 2015 – December 2015. Wilmslow, United Kingdom.
- As a part of the multi-channel team, I created online content and helped streamline the workflow of the design team. I was also involved in creating print-ready assets and marketing campaigns for the marketing department.
- UI designer – Contract
- Jet2.com
- August 2015 – October 2015. Leeds, United Kingdom.
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- I created prototypes and visual design for the new mobile-first responsive website for Jet2.com. The project was a full overhaul of the existing Jet2.com website functionality using the latest technology and best practices to create a seamless experience for users on mobile, tablet, and desktop devices.
- UI / UX designer
- BBC food
- February 2015 – July 2015. MediaCity, Salford, United Kingdom.
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- As a part of the knowledge and learning team within the BBC, I created a user experience and visual design for the BBC Food and iWonder Timelines projects. During the BBC Food project, I gathered user feedback for the existing food website, created prototypes from the user findings, ran user testing for the new mobile-first designs before creating the atomic style guide, and responsive mobile-first recipe pages.
- UI / UX designer
- Dynmark International
- April 2012 – January 2015. Gloucester, United Kingdom.
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- I was in charge of all aspects of UI / UX design within Dynmarks development department. Creating web applications, portals, mobile apps, and also motion graphics for Danmarks OTT network and bulk SMS business.
- UI Designer
- Symantec.cloud
- October 2008 – April 2012. Gloucester, United Kingdom
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- I was responsible for the development of the Symantec.cloud communities’ project and iPad application. Both projects were high profile and received a great deal of attention from the CEO at Symantec. I was also involved in the re-design of Messagelabs (Symantec) web-based administration tool.
Education
- B.A (HONS) 2.1 in Graphic Design / Multimedia
- University of Gloucestershire
- 2000 – 2003