Jon Atkins

Jon Atkins

Design Systems Lead in London, UK

About

Product designer and design system specialist. Twin Dad. Husband. Junglist.

Work Experience

2022 — 2024
Prague, CZ

Redeveloping the entire current design system from the ground up, providing improvements to accessibility across the product and constructing full documentation of all design guidance for the business.

2020 — 2022
London, UK

Conceiving and developing the company’s design system that works across 5 other acquired brands. Helped build the team up from 2 to 8 in design & engineering, leading the team of 4 designers, standardising the process and roadmap creation.

2018 — 2020
London, UK

Crafting a more extensive brand identity which lead to enhancing key areas of the legacy B2B product platform and reimagining how the business discovers and licences its vast catalogue of music to customers.

2013 — 2020
London, UK. Milan, IT. Los Angeles, US

Undertaking freelance contracts at a Senior to Lead product design level for agencies including AKQA, Ostmodern and Native Design and for clients such as Channel 4, EY, and Kobalt Music.

Writing

2024

A single source of truth for 50+ brands? Can we provide one destination for corporations to contain guidance and patterns across multiple brands?

2023

It can be a tough conversation to have but reworking your design system can be what’s best for everyone.

Education

2003 — 2006
High Wycombe

Studying the fundamentals of Graphic Design and Advertising, with a broad focus on multimedia production, web development and even digital photography.

Contact

Medium
Website
LinkedIn