It's me, hi…👋
It's me, hi…👋
🏡 I'm a husband of 8 years (my god I hope I got that right or I'm in trouble) and I have a little girl called Nova. She's super ace and we all need a little more Nova in our lives. The three of us embrace the joys of the world, hopping on a plane at every opportunity. Combining that with a wonderfully large family, you'll never find me in a bad mood or without buoyancy.
🎸 I grew up performing in bands and writing songs and continue to write to this day, filling my house with loud music much to the dismay of my wife, neighbours, and anyone within a 3 mile radius. I buy too many guitars, and will talk to you for days about the music industry, guitar intonation, and how Dave Grohl might actually be a broad daylight God in human form.
✈️ In 2009 I did what many of us would call a gap year and travelled the world. Ever since, I make a point to take my family away to see what the world has to offer, from the vibrant hues of the Maldives, to the peaks of the rocky mountains.
🇬🇧 🇨🇦 I grew up in a seaside village called Thorpe Bay (a couple of hours outside of London) in the south-east of the United Kingdom, but hold both British and Canadian citizenship.
🏡 I'm a husband of 8 years (my god I hope I got that right or I'm in trouble) and I have a little girl called Nova. She's super ace and we all need a little more Nova in our lives. The three of us embrace the joys of the world, hopping on a plane at every opportunity. Combining that with a wonderfully large family, you'll never find me in a bad mood or without buoyancy.
🎸 I grew up performing in bands and writing songs and continue to write to this day, filling my house with loud music much to the dismay of my wife, neighbours, and anyone within a 3 mile radius. I buy too many guitars, and will talk to you for days about the music industry, guitar intonation, and how Dave Grohl might actually be a broad daylight God in human form.
✈️ In 2009 I did what many of us would call a gap year and travelled the world. Ever since, I make a point to take my family away to see what the world has to offer, from the vibrant hues of the Maldives, to the peaks of the rocky mountains.
🇬🇧 🇨🇦 I grew up in a seaside village called Thorpe Bay (a couple of hours outside of London) in the south-east of the United Kingdom, but hold both British and Canadian citizenship.
🏡 I'm a husband of 8 years (my god I hope I got that right or I'm in trouble) and I have a little girl called Nova. She's super ace and we all need a little more Nova in our lives. The three of us embrace the joys of the world, hopping on a plane at every opportunity. Combining that with a wonderfully large family, you'll never find me in a bad mood or without buoyancy.
🎸 I grew up performing in bands and writing songs and continue to write to this day, filling my house with loud music much to the dismay of my wife, neighbours, and anyone within a 3 mile radius. I buy too many guitars, and will talk to you for days about the music industry, guitar intonation, and how Dave Grohl might actually be a broad daylight God in human form.
✈️ In 2009 I did what many of us would call a gap year and travelled the world. Ever since, I make a point to take my family away to see what the world has to offer, from the vibrant hues of the Maldives, to the peaks of the rocky mountains.
🇬🇧 🇨🇦 I grew up in a seaside village called Thorpe Bay (a couple of hours outside of London) in the south-east of the United Kingdom, but hold both British and Canadian citizenship.
2023-Present
Remote (London, UK)
As Scan.com's first design hire, I lead design on multiple fronts, working with the UX director / Founder on streamlining how users book digital diagnostics, building out our design system, and working on the development of our patient and clinician portals.
2022-2024
Remote (London, UK)
I joined the Flipside team as a contract product designer at the end of 2022, leading design on native applications, websites, and systems for the likes of Coca Cola, Papa Johns, Suzuki, GCTV, Theraflu, Thrive, & many more.
2018-2023
Remote/Hybrid (London, UK)
I joined Squiz as a product design in 2018, taking on the role of product design lead about year into my time there. My time was spent evolving the Squiz product suite (CMS & analytics products), contributing to the build of their design system and leading design within implementation for corporate clients such as Santander, Sainsburys, Ofcom, Sage, Ministry of Defence, & many more.
2008-2018
Contract UX Designer at Freelance ⌘
Remote/Hybrid (London, UK)
My career in design started off on a freelance basis when landing a job as a freelance graphic designer for a local printers, turning into a 'web design' role. Off the back of this, I ended streaming work from multiple London based agencies such as Creative Recruitment & Major Players, working with the likes of the NHS & Villa Resorts, Alive Network, and many more.
My decade freelancing carried me into specifically landing UX roles as I developed great relationships with said agencies over time.
What happens when a florist and an architect have a child? A product designer is born (there's a joke in there somewhere I'm sure of it).
Beyond studying, my early career was spent working for my fathers practice as a Jr. CAD designer, giving me the technical mindset I carry today. Off the back of designing the print fidelity in photoshop, company logo, and website (I was the cheaper option fresh out of a digital publishing course with the flair of my mother, good business thinking dad) a local printer offered to work with me delivering web dev and design services. Good old HTML, CSS with absolutely no JS, of course. Fortunately for me this progressed into designing Wordpress websites for companies scattered between Southend-On-Sea progressing into London. Due to the contract I had, I decided to leave my fathers practice and work for the printer full time.
Barely months into this, I was offered contract work from 'Creative Recruitment' based in East London. The work was to design an e-commerce website across two screen breakpoints. This was a young Elliot was off to the races, studying what you might remember being called 'Lynda' courses and gaining certification in UX and UI as I went along, and enjoying long term contracts with multiple agencies, then eventually accepting full-time roles (entrepreneurship made me hesitant to work full time until I realised the benefits and autonomy offered within product roles) at fabulous companies.
Fast forward a decade, multiple product roles, hundreds of prestigious clients, many early career mistakes, wonderful career ambitions realised, and millions of dollars worth of design driven ROI, I'm currently the Staff Product Designer and one of the most emerging health tech companies across the globe (and came in as their first senior design hire).
I like to give back to the community by mentoring (most recently on ADPList), and continue to work with the ambition of creating meaningful products that change the lives of people in one way or another.
Catch me on LinkedIn, Dribbble, or Contra.
What happens when a florist and an architect have a child? A product designer is born (there's a joke in there somewhere I'm sure of it).
Beyond studying, my early career was spent working for my fathers practice as a Jr. CAD designer, giving me the technical mindset I carry today. Off the back of designing the print fidelity in photoshop, company logo, and website (I was the cheaper option fresh out of a digital publishing course with the flair of my mother, good business thinking dad) a local printer offered to work with me delivering web dev and design services. Good old HTML, CSS with absolutely no JS, of course. Fortunately for me this progressed into designing Wordpress websites for companies scattered between Southend-On-Sea progressing into London. Due to the contract I had, I decided to leave my fathers practice and work for the printer full time.
Barely months into this, I was offered contract work from 'Creative Recruitment' based in East London. The work was to design an e-commerce website across two screen breakpoints. This was a young Elliot was off to the races, studying what you might remember being called 'Lynda' courses and gaining certification in UX and UI as I went along, and enjoying long term contracts with multiple agencies, then eventually accepting full-time roles (entrepreneurship made me hesitant to work full time until I realised the benefits and autonomy offered within product roles) at fabulous companies.
Fast forward a decade, multiple product roles, hundreds of prestigious clients, many early career mistakes, wonderful career ambitions realised, and millions of dollars worth of design driven ROI, I'm currently the Staff Product Designer and one of the most emerging health tech companies across the globe (and came in as their first senior design hire).
I like to give back to the community by mentoring (most recently on ADPList), and continue to work with the ambition of creating meaningful products that change the lives of people in one way or another.
Catch me on LinkedIn, Dribbble, or Contra.
What happens when a florist and an architect have a child? A product designer is born (there's a joke in there somewhere I'm sure of it).
Beyond studying, my early career was spent working for my fathers practice as a Jr. CAD designer, giving me the technical mindset I carry today. Off the back of designing the print fidelity in photoshop, company logo, and website (I was the cheaper option fresh out of a digital publishing course with the flair of my mother, good business thinking dad) a local printer offered to work with me delivering web dev and design services. Good old HTML, CSS with absolutely no JS, of course. Fortunately for me this progressed into designing Wordpress websites for companies scattered between Southend-On-Sea progressing into London. Due to the contract I had, I decided to leave my fathers practice and work for the printer full time.
Barely months into this, I was offered contract work from 'Creative Recruitment' based in East London. The work was to design an e-commerce website across two screen breakpoints. This was a young Elliot was off to the races, studying what you might remember being called 'Lynda' courses and gaining certification in UX and UI as I went along, and enjoying long term contracts with multiple agencies, then eventually accepting full-time roles (entrepreneurship made me hesitant to work full time until I realised the benefits and autonomy offered within product roles) at fabulous companies.
Fast forward a decade, multiple product roles, hundreds of prestigious clients, many early career mistakes, wonderful career ambitions realised, and millions of dollars worth of design driven ROI, I'm currently the Staff Product Designer and one of the most emerging health tech companies across the globe (and came in as their first senior design hire).
I like to give back to the community by mentoring (most recently on ADPList), and continue to work with the ambition of creating meaningful products that change the lives of people in one way or another.
Catch me on LinkedIn, Dribbble, or Contra.
2023-Present
Remote (London, UK)
As Scan.com's first design hire, I lead design on multiple fronts, working with the UX director / Founder on streamlining how users book digital diagnostics, building out our design system, and working on the development of our patient and clinician portals.
2022-2024
Remote (London, UK)
I joined the Flipside team as a contract product designer at the end of 2022, leading design on native applications, websites, and systems for the likes of Coca Cola, Papa Johns, Suzuki, GCTV, Theraflu, Thrive, & many more.
2018-2023
Remote/Hybrid (London, UK)
I joined Squiz as a product design in 2018, taking on the role of product design lead about year into my time there. My time was spent evolving the Squiz product suite (CMS & analytics products), contributing to the build of their design system and leading design within implementation for corporate clients such as Santander, Sainsburys, Ofcom, Sage, Ministry of Defence, & many more.
2008-2018
Contract UX Designer at Freelance ⌘
Remote/Hybrid (London, UK)
My career in design started off on a freelance basis when landing a job as a freelance graphic designer for a local printers, turning into a 'web design' role. Off the back of this, I ended streaming work from multiple London based agencies such as Creative Recruitment & Major Players, working with the likes of the NHS & Villa Resorts, Alive Network, and many more.
My decade freelancing carried me into specifically landing UX roles as I developed great relationships with said agencies over time.
2023-Present
Remote (London, UK)
As Scan.com's first design hire, I lead design on multiple fronts, working with the UX director / Founder on streamlining how users book digital diagnostics, building out our design system, and working on the development of our patient and clinician portals.
2022-2024
Remote (London, UK)
I joined the Flipside team as a contract product designer at the end of 2022, leading design on native applications, websites, and systems for the likes of Coca Cola, Papa Johns, Suzuki, GCTV, Theraflu, Thrive, & many more.
2018-2023
Remote/Hybrid (London, UK)
I joined Squiz as a product design in 2018, taking on the role of product design lead about year into my time there. My time was spent evolving the Squiz product suite (CMS & analytics products), contributing to the build of their design system and leading design within implementation for corporate clients such as Santander, Sainsburys, Ofcom, Sage, Ministry of Defence, & many more.
2008-2018
Contract UX Designer at Freelance ⌘
Remote/Hybrid (London, UK)
My career in design started off on a freelance basis when landing a job as a freelance graphic designer for a local printers, turning into a 'web design' role. Off the back of this, I ended streaming work from multiple London based agencies such as Creative Recruitment & Major Players, working with the likes of the NHS & Villa Resorts, Alive Network, and many more.
My decade freelancing carried me into specifically landing UX roles as I developed great relationships with said agencies over time.
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