About me

I am a creative Senior User Experience Designer with over 16 years experience working on large-content websites for multi-devices in a fast-paced environment. I can offer a wide range of skills from Information Architecture and design to prototyping and user testing, whilst managing teams and mentoring younger designers.

If you like, you can view my portfolio here; *.

Many thanks,

Rachel Ragan

Skills

User Experience Design, Information Architecture, Interaction Design, Hi-Fidelity Prototypes, Visual Design, Responsive Design, Multi Channel Design, User Research, Usability Testing, Project & team leadership, UX Strategy, Client relationship management, Agile / Lean/Waterfall, Business To Business Sites, E-Commerce, Content Management Design, Axure, Omnigraffle, Various prototype tools, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, HTML / XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, InDesign, Acrobat, Microsoft Office, Various CMAs

Sector Experience

Media - Journalism, Televison, Movies, Music, E-commerce - Top 10 retailers, SMB's DIY site builders, Science - Pharmaceuticals, Engineering, Finance - Top 5 high street banking

Awards

2011 Launch, Highly recommended, Red Online - AOP, 2011 Best consumer site, Shortlist, Digital Spy - AOP, 2010 Best Intranet, Silver, National Grid - Digital Impact Awards, 2008 Website of the Year, TimesOnline - AOP, 2007 News site of the Year, TimesOnline - AOP, 2005 Competitions site of the Year, TimesOnline - Competitions Companion, 1996 Large-content site of the Year, The Times - AOP

Clients

BSkyB, Lloyds TSB, The Times, Thomson Reuters - IP & Science, Virgin Media