Anjoli Dey

Design Lead (Contract)

London, Vereinigtes Königreich

Erfahrungen

Jan. 2022 - Dez. 2023
1 Jahr

Design Lead (Contract)

Unboxed

  • Designing the next generation of planning services for local government
  • Coaching Product Owner
  • Defining design principles to foster cross-team collaboration; increasing deliver
  • Workshop facilitation with multiple planning officers across the countr
  • User research, building mental models, identify problems and opportunitie
  • Imagining a vision for the future, resulting in the Open Digital Planning team winning future funding.
Jan. 2022 - Dez. 2023
1 Jahr

Design Lead (Contract)

ustwo

  • NDA: Discovery project exploring AI for the Beauty industry.
  • Exploring new paradigms in UX & interface design.
Jan. 2021 - Dez. 2022
1 Jahr

Volunteer

Fearless

  • ‘Supporting working parents’ project at the research & discovery stage.
Jan. 2018 - Dez. 2022
5 Jahren

Design Lead

WGSN

  • WGSN are trend forecasters, the most influential B2B company that you probably don’t know exists. Through bringing a user first, design first approach to the table, I led product design and contributed to the transformation of WGSN from a publishing led business to product led, making it future fit.
  • The WGSN Ecosyste: Responsible for complete redesign of WGSN; evolving the brand and unifying the experience across 5 product verticals, resulting in a robust, coherent platform.
  • The WGSN Ecosyste: Business impact: reduction in publishing time, record-breaking NPS scores (from 38 to 52! I know controversial metric), delighted customers, and soaring retention rates during a tough economic spell.
  • Design-led product culture, allowing innovation to thriv: Implemented product design practices, championed the customer, brought research insights to the product discovery and development cycle, defined product strategy and direction, prototyped new services.
  • Design-led product culture, allowing innovation to thriv: Launched 4 new products within 4 years; the #TrendFeed, Beauty vertical, Personalisation & TrendCurve; revolutionising how trends are predicted. Giving WGSN the potential to move from a digital publishing service to a bespoke data reporting service in the near future.
  • Design-led product culture, allowing innovation to thriv: Team impact: showed the C-suite the value of the product team which led to growth in this discipline.
  • Upskilling & supporting the team: I fostered collaboration across the business, showing the engineering team & editors how to “sprint”; taking them on the design journey. Reducing delivery of new products & features from months to week.
  • Upskilling & supporting the team: I upskilled (non-product) designers through coaching and practical workshops on product design thinking.
  • Upskilling & supporting the team: Coaching and mentoring design team.
  • Upskilling & supporting the team: Created an approach to recruitment & hiring designers.
Jan. 2018 - Dez. 2019
1 Jahr

Product Design Lead (Contract)

Friday

  • NDA: UX for Pharmaceuticals.
  • Customer journey mapping and user flows for a video based consultation app.
Jan. 2016 - Dez. 2017
1 Jahr

Product Design Lead (Contract)

Adaptive Lab (Now Frog)

  • NDA: Proposition development for SME business banking.
  • Continuous user research, hypothesis testing & prototyping throughout an 8 week engagement.
Jan. 2016 - Dez. 2017
1 Jahr

Guest Lecturer

University of Southampton & Winchester School of Art

Jan. 2015 - Dez. 2020
5 Jahren

Lead Lecturer (Foundation Degree in Digital Innovation) / Volunteer

Ada. National College for Digital Skills

  • Designed an intensive learning experience and delivered it to over 100+ software apprentices from Google, Facebook, EY, Deloitte, PwC & BritishLand.
  • Responsible for a module about Agile Methodologies and User Centred Design Thinking.
  • Delivering design workshops, mentoring & critiquing student work with 6th form students.
Jan. 2015 - Dez. 2019
3 Jahren

Volunteer at career days

Inspire-ebp

Jan. 2015 - Dez. 2016
1 Jahr

Speaker

Agile on the Bench

  • Talk on Agile + Design - Why I hate ‘agile,’ 2016.
  • Controversial topic amongst agile coaches but got everyone talking and thinking, for the better!
Jan. 2014 - Dez. 2017
4 Jahren

Product Design Lead

ustwo

  • Co-op: Embedding with the Manchester Co-op team, to discover opportunities for improvement and growth in their Food business through an Alpha discovery programme.
  • Eurostar: Re-imagining the booking journey, evolving the brand, and coaching the in-house team on the principles of agile product development.
  • Further clients: Trinny London, ASOS, Barclaycard, Worldpay.
Jan. 2010 - Dez. 2015
4 Jahren

Senior Designer

DigitasLBi

  • AstraZeneca: An 'innovation lab' experience, partnering with AstraZeneca, exploring digital solutions to the biggest problems within the healthcare industry. Using service design methods & a lean start-up approach, small discovery teams researched, live prototyped and tested alpha ideas; building investment cases to prove, pivot or disprove areas for further funding.
  • Further clients: Cunard, Barratt Homes, David Wilson Homes, BT Global Services, M&S, Lloyds, Capital One and Invesco Perpetual.
Jan. 2005 - Dez. 2011
6 Jahren

Graphic Designer

Various agencies

  • Agencies: Undercurrent Brands, Wieden+Kennedy, Hudson Wright (Fashion), Morning Brands, Aimee Betts (Textiles), House of Fraser (Retail), Me&Dave (Property) , The Mind Gym (Corporate training), Brand Pie, Greentarget (Corporate communications), Design@EC1 (Packaging), New Future Graphic, Wallpaper* Magazine, Smith and Gilmour (Publishing)

Zusammenfassung

Hello, I'm not your typical designer. I prefer messy ambiguity over pixel perfection, finding clarity in the chaos. I thrive when collaborating to identify and solve meaningful problems. By putting people first I help businesses elevate their products and services, create new experiences, and refine their product design practices.

My approach is informed by experiences both in-house and agency, where I have steered the end-to-end design process from product discovery to delivery. My adaptable skills span across research, strategy, workshops, ideation, lean UX/UI, prototyping, testing, and launch. I lead with a coaching mindset, fostering collaboration, and creating an environment for growth and innovation by bringing people together.

Sprachen

Englisch
Muttersprache

Ausbildung

Loughborough University School of Art and Design

BTEC Diploma · Foundation Art and Design · Vereinigtes Königreich · Distinction

Our Lady’s Convent School

A Levels · Art, Chemistry and Biology · Vereinigtes Königreich · A–B

Bath Spa University

BA (Hons) · Graphic Design · Vereinigtes Königreich · 2:1