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The portfolio of Stephen Musson. A UX and Creative Designer

Digital experiences

with a human touch.

I'm a digital product designer with experience in delivering end-to-end UX & UI design for large organisations and charities.

I have worked with some amazing brands & their users

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Zurich UK.

“Stephen has been a great support, implementing our new brand on our corporate website and consulting on our new user focussed web applications”

Natalie Burns
UX Manager, Zurich

Core skills

I have been lucky to have a great & varied career which has helped me become the designer and person I am today.

I have worked in multiple environments from Agencies, In-house, start-up and for Myself. This has given me a great insight of all aspects of industries, approaches and experiences which I carry forward to any role or project I work on.

Leading Discovery Phases
Who are we building for? What are trying to achieve? Working with stakeholders and users to design products that are intuitive and helpful.
Leading & mentoring
From leading a team to collaborative success or to individual growth, I have had some amazing guidance throughout my career and passing it along the line to future generations of designers and developers is very rewarding.
Frameworks & systems
Do less, better. I helped drive an agency design system forward to encourage us to communicate and innovate to build better products.

Also creating a UX framework, for the introduction of a new service to the agency and our clients.

The wall of work

I am currently working on updating case studies but in the meantime here is a flavour of some of my latest work.
YoungMinds
Charity
SAA
E-commerce
Girlguiding
Charity/E-commerce
Design System
Framework
Conflux
Framework
Decimal
E-commerce
Soil Association
Make a pledge for good
Zurich
Private sector

Who me?

I‘m a Designer with over twenty years experience, leading, discovering and crafting digital products for multiple sectors. I help organisations to expand their capacity for growth and impact through adopting user led approach.

I'm passionate about improving the lives of others through design and am constantly looking to learn new things everyday.

I currently work at Element78 Solutions an established digital agency in Bristol as a UX & Creative Lead.

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Always learning

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Addicted to the craft

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User centric approach

Me, myself and I

Experience
Interests
WIP UX
Work history

Where has the time gone?

Hyperjuju - London - Junior designer 2001 - 2003 (~2 years)
Online PR agency specialising in viral marketing campaigns. My main role was to help design and build online web pages, quizzes for large organisations such as 02 (Big Brother) Universal Music (Christina Milian) and The Jim Henson Co (The Hoobs).

Urban Blue Design - London - Middleweight designer  - 2003 (~8 months)
A start up design consultancy. I was hired to help create digital designs for websites, html emails and pitching materials.

Fuelforce Ltd - Swindon - Design & marketing manager - 2003 - 2005 (~2 years)
Fuleforce owned over 200 Jet petrol stations across the UK. I was hired to manage their promotional poster and print production, along with developing their first ever website.

Huntforit.com - Swindon - Design & marketing manager- 2005- 2006 (~1 year)
A start up online auction platform with sms bidding. When Fuelforce was sold to other oil companies the CEO set up huntforit.com and brought me along to spear head the design and marketing of the new platform.

‍Aura Digital - Swindon - Creative Director - 2006 - 2012 (~6 years)
Aura Digital was set up by myself and a software developer to offer digital solutions for SME's.

Maplecroft - Bath - Senior designer - 2012 - 2014 (~2 years)
Maplecroft (now called Verisk Maplecroft) are a data modelling, risk analysis and strategic forecasting agency that work with large multinational companies. I worked in the software team to offer bespoke interactive dashboards centred around mapping software and unique data sets.

‍‍Travelling - India & SE Asia - Culture hunter - 2014 - 2014 (~8 months)
A digtial detox for the soul. My wife and I traveled around SE Asia for around 8 months visiting, absorbing, adventuring and relaxing.

Element78 - Bristol - UX & Creative Lead - 2015 - Present (~7 years)
An established agency with over 16 years of heritage and an awesome client list. I lead the design team who are responsible for all aspects of the research & design process.

Working with directly with clients and users to create great experiences.






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Interests

The non-digital me

When I am not designing digital solutions you can find me scribbling away, sketching and doodling, this hasn't stopped from my childhood - I love picking up a pencil or posca pen and letting my imagination flow.

I also love to tinker and refurbish vintage record players and old furniture, there is something really rewarding about bringing bacsomething back to its former glory. Along with listening to the records, as this is one of my favourite user experiences, taking a vinyl of its cover out putting on to play while being able to hold and look at artwork and record sleeves.









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Work in Progress UX

Doing it for the gram.

"I chose the name Work in Progress UX, as we are always learning no matter where we are in our career. "
I have never been a social media guy, but back in the first lockdown (after completing netflix) I was looking for something to do that combined a few of my passions (design, drawing and mentoring). I started an instagram account about UX & design, sharing tips and experiences mainly aimed at apsiring designers.

I enjoy mentoring and managing designers challenging them that design isn't just about beautiful interfaces that you get 50 likes for but means nothing but it is about problem solving first.

Since then I been approached by a UX/UI facebook group of nearly 100,000, where I help moderate, curate and mentor.



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