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Delib
Peer advisor
Trusted by 500+ government organisations and public bodies around the world. Delib helps improve democracy for both governments and citizens.
- Upskilling content designers and sharing best practices to help a small team define their now, next and later roadmap.
Content Design London
Course Facilitator
Consultancy and courses by Sarah Richards, creator of the #ContentDesign discipline for GDS and author of Content Design.
- Teaching and developing content design courses, both in-person and remotely.
Headway
Content Design Lead and Taxonomist
Rewiring a new mental healthcare system for access and affordability.
- Setting up content design, hiring, and defining style and content standards. Working on insurance benefits, issue taxonomy, chatbots, UX to help people find a therapist, helping therapists efficiently take notes and more.
Public Digital
Service designer
Digital transformation is the act of radically changing how your organisation works, so that it can survive and thrive in the internet era. We are a consultancy that can help make it happen by working directly with your leaders and teams.
- Service design consultancy on an early-stage discovery project based in the Americas. Developed a prioritisation framework and designed scoping workshops to help a team identify an exemplar to move forward to alpha.
Integrity Institute
Editor
We are a community of integrity professionals protecting the social internet
- Edited a presentation and report on elections integrity.
Sidechat
Product/content designer
Sidechat is the best way to connect with your college
- Designed core integrity experiences to keep this anonymous sharing platform safe.
Projects by if
Content and Service Design Lead
IF is a technology studio, specialising in ethical and practical uses of data and AI
- Speculative design project for Google, focused on AI.
Digi2al Ltd
Design Sprint Facilitator
Building better and inclusive digital services, around user needs and using design thinking to solve difficult problems.
- Planned and led a 5-day design sprint for the Met Police, exploring change management process and org design. This was the first time the 20+ attendees had participated in a design sprint or worked with design thinking.
Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator
Behavioural Change Expert and Scriptwriter
A not-for-profit social enterprise building African solutions for the global challenge of youth unemployment.
- Defined strategy and designed scripts for video content that compels young people in South Africa to apply for casual work in a challenging market.
Meta
Principal Content Designer, Customer Support
Our mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together.
- I was a founding member of our Customer Support org, leading content and service design. I defined short, medium and long-term strategy on how we provide effective customer support for 3 billion users. Learn more: https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/10/228
- Design leader in integrity, trust and safety between 2017 and early 2021 - focused on product experiences relating to content moderation across Facebook, Instagram and Messenger, tackling some of the biggest issues across the internet and society.
- Built 0-to-1 experiences including user reporting, warning screens, takedown experiences and the Oversight Board, and supported strategy around global elections, plus our COVID-19 response.
- Created and maintained a design system, which was reused (and supported in code) by 15+ teams. In doing so I scaled research and data-backed best practices.
- Built cross-functional teams focused on user-centred policy design.
- My work directly led to behavioural change (8%+ global reductions in hate speech), million-dollar savings, improvements in the perception of fairness and new industry standards.
- Joined Facebook London as the first local Content Design hire. I led content design for our v0 launches of Facebook Stories, Instagram Stories, camera effects and Spark AR Studio - including naming, onboarding, localisation, growth and upsells, and go-to-
Citizens Advice
Product Manager and Content Design Lead
the citizens advice service helps people resolve their legal, money and other problems by providing free information and advice, and by influencing policy makers. our principles: the citizens advice service provides free, independent, confidential and impartial advice to everyone on their rights and responsibilities. it values diversity, promotes equality and challenges discrimination. our aims: * to provide the advice people need for the problems they face * to improve the policies and practices that affect people’s lives
- I managed a small team to transform content on consumer rights, reducing 950 articles down to 30 and increasing utility, SEO and clarity along the way
- I drove an overhaul of immigration content for advisers in bureaux around the UK, helping volunteers navigate their way to answering the top incoming questions.
- In my hybrid role, I was responsible for unblocking fellow content designers, scoping and helping teams prioritise work, sprint planning, validating user needs and commissioning research - as well as mentoring the broader product team and creating quality
- I took a methodical approach to breaking down complex law and policy in order to advocate for a needs-first, streamlined redesign.
Hm Revenue & Customs
Senior Service and Interaction Designer
We are the UK’s tax, payments and customs authority. We collect the money that pays for the UK's public services.
- I founded and built up a design team of 5, bringing design to the forefront of HMRC's digital transformation.
- I built up a community of practice and strong working relationships and sharing practices across the design disciplines.
Government Digital Service
Senior Content Designer
Leading the digital transformation of the UK government.
- I was part of the award-winning team that won the Design Museum's Design of the Year 2013 and black and yellow pencils (for content) in the D&AD Awards 2013. I worked on user experiences crucial to millions of people in the UK - including passports, Child
- I was responsible for launching GOV.UK and transitioning hundreds of agencies (eg HM Courts and Tribunals Service) onto the government's revolutionary single domain.
- I got to grips with thorny subject material quickly and turned it all into easy-to-digest plain English. I directly managed a team and was responsible for program management and content quality.