With over 25 years of experience, I have been providing digital experience design, product design, UI, UX, and consultation for several brands. I have led global site re-designs. defined and designed effective, metric-driven customer-focused solutions and led and managed full-scale digital and product design teams. Best described as a strategic designer with an entrepreneurial mindset and pixel-perfect designs that are always driven by insight alongside business objectives. Industry experience includes retail, hotel and leisure, start-ups, legal, government, luxury and global.
Recommendations
"Katy has been a significant contributor to my team at JL, bringing a fresh perspective and a wealth of experience as a product design lead in the fashion and beauty industry. Katy's expertise has been instrumental in shaping the product display pages (PDP) and product listing pages (PLP) of Johnlewis.com. She has an unwavering commitment to doing things the right way and consistently incorporates design thinking and best practices into her work.
What sets Katy apart is her can-do attitude and vibrant personality. Her positive energy and enthusiasm create a dynamic and collaborative environment where design excellence thrives. Moreover, Katy's dedication to delivering exceptional results and her passion for her craft make her a valuable asset to any team.
Working with Katy has been an absolute pleasure, and I am proud to consider her not just a colleague, but also a friend. I highly recommend her to any team seeking a talented and driven professional."
Neil Dodd - Head of Omnichannel & Prototyping, John Lewis & Partners
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What sets Katy apart is her can-do attitude and vibrant personality. Her positive energy and enthusiasm create a dynamic and collaborative environment where design excellence thrives. Moreover, Katy's dedication to delivering exceptional results and her passion for her craft make her a valuable asset to any team.
Working with Katy has been an absolute pleasure, and I am proud to consider her not just a colleague, but also a friend. I highly recommend her to any team seeking a talented and driven professional."
Neil Dodd - Head of Omnichannel & Prototyping, John Lewis & Partners
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"A seasoned digital product designer and design manager with in depth UX and UI knowledge. Enjoyed getting into the details with her on a number of projects, where she focused on ideas for website improvements, and on new capabilities."
Nicholas Crop - Global Digital Design Director, Jo Malone London
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"I recruited Katy at Estee Lauder Companies to lead the design/UI for some new acquisitions global site re-designs, The site global site designs were a great success. Katy is very confident whether talking to stakeholders, high-level management or teams, a great problem solver, She is highly creative and strategic and has a strong business mind. Katy is also very effective in logical and creative thinking and this has been invaluable in leading the UX/UI and product design for in-house site features and capabilities. I would highly recommend Katy and she is an asset to any company."
Laura Elliott - Head of Design, Estee Lauder Companies
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Nicholas Crop - Global Digital Design Director, Jo Malone London
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"I recruited Katy at Estee Lauder Companies to lead the design/UI for some new acquisitions global site re-designs, The site global site designs were a great success. Katy is very confident whether talking to stakeholders, high-level management or teams, a great problem solver, She is highly creative and strategic and has a strong business mind. Katy is also very effective in logical and creative thinking and this has been invaluable in leading the UX/UI and product design for in-house site features and capabilities. I would highly recommend Katy and she is an asset to any company."
Laura Elliott - Head of Design, Estee Lauder Companies
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Katy is one of the most proficient designers I've worked with. Endlessly creative with strong ideas and excellent visual skills. She marries customer insight and business needs brilliantly, delivering amazing designs at an unbelievable pace! I'd definitely recommend Katy as a strong designer and great colleague.
Sandra Meek - UX Design Manager, John Lewis & Partners
Sandra Meek - UX Design Manager, John Lewis & Partners
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"Katy's Design skill set is second-to-none; there is not one detail she misses when it comes to her field and expertise. She is focused on delivering the best possible results for the business and also possesses great project management skills. I was fortunate to have her on my team and look forward to working with her again in the future."
Chanella Buck - Founder On Beaute
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It has been such a pleasure to work with Katy on our new website designs. Her experience really helped bring our vision to life and due to her experience, she implemented many things we hadn’t thought of when it came to the customer journey. We’re so excited to see the next steps of Curate Beauty come to life with Katy’s designs and would highly recommend working with her to create the next iteration of your business. She is extremely organised in her process of working together and understood exactly what we had envisioned.
Samantha Freedman - Co-Founder & CEO Curate Beauty
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"I worked with Katy on a web re-platform project where we both led the UX and UI for two new Monsoon Accessorize websites. It was a pleasure to have her as a teammate who brought value to the project with her great research and problem solving expertise. Katy has been great not only by making data-driven and UX best practice decisions but also great attention to design detail in getting content ready for launch. I cannot recommend Katy strongly enough as a digital design and UX professional. Her design work is always precise, thoughtful, and logical, as you would expect from her level of experience and expertise."
Olga Fiodorova - UI Lead, Monsoon Accessorize
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"Katy is a top creative talent and an excellent manager. She is extremely creative, experienced and passionate about her work. She is one of the most conscientious people that I have had the pleasure to work with and always makes sure her work is at a high standard. She would make every effort to ensure a design is perfect. It is a pleasure to know her, to have worked under her, and she would be a great asset for any business."
Sophie Nau - Senior UI Designer
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"Katy is a highly creative and dedicated Design and UX professional. She is innovative and has a problem-solving mindset.
She is a pleasure to work with, collaborative and fun with a positive persona. I respect her talents
and would recommend her to anyone."
Sophie Nau - Senior UI Designer
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"Katy is a highly creative and dedicated Design and UX professional. She is innovative and has a problem-solving mindset.
She is a pleasure to work with, collaborative and fun with a positive persona. I respect her talents
and would recommend her to anyone."
Laura Reid - Senior Product Owner
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