Matt Hall

Matt Hall

Product & UI Designer in Kent

matthall.co

About

A seasoned UI designer with a passion for crafting seamless user experiences. With a career spanning over 17 years, I have honed my skills through diverse projects across industries ranging from B2B SaaS and publishing to e-commerce and sports betting

Projects

Ongoing
Zapnito
2024
Zapnito Rebrand
2024
2022
Gut Health Grants at Springer Nature
2020
2019
Oystercatchers Club at Centaur Media
2017
Headspring Executive at Financial Times Group
2014
Sporting Solutions at Sporting Group
2014
Sporting Index Corporate at Sporting Group
2012
Datamonitor Healthcare at Informa

Side Projects

Ongoing
PWDb

PWDb (PWAD Database) is a NextJS application that helps players search for custom WADs from various sources around the DOOM community.

2024

A simple NextJS application that allows people to create a custom avatar of their London Marathon race bib

Work Experience

2015 — Now
London

  • Led design efforts from inception through early stages to Series A funding at Zapnito

  • Founding designer of the Zapnito platform, evolving it from an expert marketplace to a robust enterprise community platform

  • Implemented a comprehensive design system utilised across all platforms and tools

  • Developed and maintained company websites to align with the evolving business landscape

  • Delivered customised design solutions to clients in partnership with customer success team

  • Collaborated with marketing director on a rapid in-house rebrand executed within 3 months, launched in early 2024

  • Provided sales support by creating mockups that contributed to securing £300k new ARR in 2023

2013 — 2015
London

  • Led UI Engineers in migration from Silverlight to HTML, CSS & Javascript

  • Created trading tools for live sports spread betting

  • Implemented SSLN design system using Bootstrap

  • Revamped commercial website using Wordpress

  • Redesigned corporate website for the group

2010 — 2013
London

  • Led design of pharma intelligence platform, Datamonitor Healthcare

  • Revamped leading legal research platform, i-law

  • Established internal labs to experiment with emerging web standards alongside engineering teams

  • Digitised legal newsletters into digital products

  • Redesigned Banking Technology Fintech magazine

2009 — 2010
London

  • Front-end designer for dotDigital's new e-commerce platform, dotCommerce

  • Designed stores for top brands like USN, Pineapple Dance Studios, Rodial, and more

  • Integrated Zendesk with dotCommerce to enhance customer support efficiency

  • Developed e-commerce best practice wireframe templates as a foundation for design projects

2008 — 2009
Web Designer at Freelance
London
  • Freelance designer, working with a range of clients including Sainsbury's, Objective Media Group, Clout Communications, and Old Westminster Citizens'
2007 — 2008
Kent

  • Developed a customized client portal for the local NHS trust to facilitate communication with the commercial law team

  • Collaborated with Red Ant Design to enhance and extend the company website

2007 — 2007
Design Internship at Lacou
London

  • Designed and developed company website

  • Created landing page for Crusaid's annual Walk for Life, now incorporated into the Terrence Higgins Trust

Certifications

2024

  • Conducting UX Research and Testing Early Concepts

  • Foundations of User Experience Design

  • Creating High-Fidelity Designs and Prototypes

  • Building Dynamic User Interfaces

  • Designing a User Experience for Social Good

  • Building Wireframes and Low-Fidelity Prototypes

  • Starting the UX Design Process: Empathise, Define, and Ideate

Contact

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