Jack Hughes

Jack Hughes

Digital Product Design in England

About

Hello, I'm Jack,

A UI-flavoured product designer that enjoys shaping tricky design challenges into thoughtful, detailed and supremely-crafted solutions.

My pragmatic approach is grounded by a sound technical awareness and guided by both business and user needs.

Side Projects

2020

An experimental clock visualisation and an excuse to practice more CSS and JavaScript.

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2019

Showcasing an alphabet of botanical illustration, featuring plants known for their edible flowers.

A project in partnership with Charlotte Day, I contributed graphic design, copywriting and coding.

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Work Experience

2021 — Now
Staff Product Designer (Contract) at McKinsey & Company

• Leading design across multiple B2B SaaS solutions as part of cross-functional team.
• Porting design system (and team) into Figma during initiative to refresh styles that focused on improving legibility and accessibility.
• Interviewing candidates and growing the design team.

2015 — 2021

• Applied user-centred design principles to complex data analysis tools, validated solutions with clients and stakeholders on journey from wireframe sketches to design of high-fidelity prototypes and developer handoff.
• Co-facilitated a variety of design sprints on-site with client teams in Europe & North America to successfully procure funding for further product development.
• Presented regular ‘lunch & learn’ sessions on topics such as groupthink, philosophy and permaculture, as well as leading a remote yoga session during lockdown.

2015 — 2015

• Product discovery for startup building a video biography and family history app.
• Workshops with founders, following Lean methodology to discover their vision and define the opportunity, backed by evidence from research and user-testing.
• Brand exploration, UI design, Prototyping for A/B testing.

2013 — 2014

• Designed physical experiences for launch of a new series of fun, interactive exhibits that formed part of larger exhibitions exploring the future of energy.
• Mentored, line managed and oversaw work of junior designers on the team.
• Provided direction to freelancers working on AV, interactive and VR experiences.

2013 — 2013

• Conceptual design phase exploring premium-level customer support features for wealth management service catering to high-net-worth individuals.
• Helped with website redesign for private bank that focused on modern simplicity.

2013 — 2013

• Collaborated in small team of designers and developers to express the distinctive character of 6 art colleges and consolidate content into a modern, responsive site.
• Stakeholder management to align each of the colleges on a unified design direction.
• Partnered with Pentagram to adapt UAL brand guidelines into a digital context.

2011 — 2013
Digital Designer at LBi

• Launched online banking onboarding features to lower customer support requests.
• Worked in team with UX specialists on full redesign of high street bank’s website.
• Interface design for award-winning microsite, which blended user-generated content into an animated, episodic narrative.

2010 — 2011
Digital Designer at JWT
2008 — 2010
Interactive Designer at Suburb
2006 — 2008
Digital Designer at DLKW

Volunteering

2018 — 2018
Working Holiday Volunteer at National Trust

Helping manage ancient woodland while on a working holiday in the Lake District. Coppicing and creating coups to protect the structure of the woodland and increase biodiversity.

2017 — 2018

Surveying and maintaining several local nature reserves as part of the Great North Wood project.

Education

2003 — 2006
BA (Hons) Interactive Media Production at Bournemouth University
2002 — 2003
(BTech) Foundation Studies in Art & Design at Colchester School of Art
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