Thunk Ltd.

Working with businesses and organisations across industries. Providing digital product design & research, leadership, strategy, mentoring, hiring design teams, increasing internal design capabilities and design sprint facilitation.
Clients include: Twitter, Reed, NHS, Fine + Rare, Sensat, Babylon Health, Premier Farnell, Forward Partners, Virti Health, FitXR and some other cool start-ups you've not heard of (yet).

Founder & Design Partner

Google

I had three projects at Google I/O in 2017, two of them as a part of Android 8.0 “Oreo” launching in fall 2017.  As a part of the Android design team in London I led various system UI efforts, including the design for data access and management on Android Oreo Go targeting the "Next Billion Users".

In my time at Google I also worked on Enterprise (Google Apps), Ads (Google AdSense), Commerce (Google Offers), Maps (Google Maps for Mobile), Social (Google+ Local), Emerging Markets, Privacy and Search Ad Formats. I have facilitated many workshops and design sprints across the world, whilst working closely with UX researchers, Product Management and Engineering teams to design and deliver world class products and features.

Senior User Experience Designer / UX Lead

Skype

I worked on a couple of projects at Skype focusing on e-commerce and payment interfaces on both the Skype website and within the Skype client for Microsoft Windows.  I produced various ideas in the form of sketches, wireframes and high fidelity visual designs to simplify the purchase of hardware and Skype credit.  During my time here I also began designing some parts of the first Skype applications for mobile devices.

Interaction Designer

BBC Radio & Music Interactive

During my short time at the BBC I worked on a number of projects for Radio 1, 2 and Five Live.  I lead the interaction and visual design of the Five Live website during the 2006 World Cup campaign.  I ran a number of user studies on features and products for Radio 2, suggested and implemented improvements.  As well as supporting, I constantly pushed the boundaries of BBC processes and design standards to deliver innovative solutions.

Interactive Designer

Yahoo! Europe

As a part of the Ad Technology team I took responsibility for the user experience of rich-media advertising, both on UK, European homepages and throughout the Yahoo websites. This included advising on and upholding usability requirements with clients and the implementation of campaigns using various technologies. I delivered creative solutions, advice and consultancy to both internal and external clients, producing concept designs and prototypes for potential campaigns.

Designer & Front End Developer (Ad Tech)

DMG Radio

During my time in Australia I led the digital media for Nova 96.9fm in Sydney.  Again introducing User-centered Design practices to redesign the site for both user and business needs, also handling most of the technical implementation.  Essentially an extension to the work I'd done at Virgin in the UK.

Design Lead & Product Manager

Virgin Radio International Limited

Led the major re-design of the company's website, introducing user research and testing sessions to create a design that answered user and business needs, standing for almost 4 years.   Worked with external advertisers to create ground breaking cross-media campaigns.

Digital Media Design Lead

Ginger Media Group

I had far too much fun working for Chris Evan's Ginger Media Group on broadcast media websites, redesigning Virgin Radio's site entirely whilst trying to hang around the TFI Friday bar celeb' spotting as much as possible.

Oldroyd Publishing Group Ltd

A graphic design education, taught by old masters. :)

Print and Web Designer

A seasoned digital technology leader, designer, and strategist. I’m an expert in UX design, product & service design and user research.

Blending creative innovation with the power of insight to exceed results is what I do best.

Described as a product design strategy “game-changer”, “visionary”, “ideas guy” and “bloody nice chap”, I've reached 100s of millions of people with my work, worldwide. At Google I led design for and released 3 ground breaking products and features at Google I/O. During my decade at Google I worked on Google Maps, Search, Android and more. Other tech and media brands I've worked with include Skype, BBC, NHS, Yahoo, Virgin, Reed and some fantastic start-ups you haven’t heard of (yet).

I work alongside a range of roles from developers, product managers to managing directors and CEOs. But most importantly, customers and users — the result? Outcomes that increases customer loyalty and meets commercial objectives consistently.

In addition to ‘hands-on design’, workshop and design sprint facilitation I am a consultant to C-Level executives on product design strategies. Working with brands already remarkable in their field who want to push for increased growth. 

★	25 years’ experience in digital technology design, including 10 years at Google

★	I speak designer, customer, developer, executive, sales, user research, team building, product development life cycle, project management and product manager. 

★	It feels like a lifetime ago, but I also hold a 1st Class BA in Interactive Multimedia. 

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► About Thunk –  Thunk transforms businesses with digital product design.

We're a bunch of vastly experienced designers and researchers whose focus is the design-led transformation of products and businesses. We deliver true value every day, and form meaningful partnerships with the businesses and organisations we work with. 

We do two things really well:

★ Design world class digital products and services.
Alongside your teams, we create, improve and reimagine the future, using our design-led processes to exceed desired outcomes.

★ Increase the design maturity of businesses and their teams.
With our decades of experience in improving design maturity within organisations, we take teams and companies to the next level.

We've worked with: 
Twitter | Reed | NHS | Farnell | Sensat | FINE+RARE | + Many More

Book a free consultation here https://calendly.com/thunkltd/intro-to-thunk

Rick Farrell

- Product design lead & manager Google Travel Packages and the Travel platform design system & unification.
- Product design lead YouTube Creator Studio.
- EMEA onsite hiring committee.

Product Design Lead / UX Manager

- Product design lead for Google Publisher solutions exploratory projects, specialising in mobile web design optimisation, AMP, PWA, responsive design, content management and strategy.
- Product design lead for Google AdSense Reporting and Ad unit creation.
- 20% Project: Android.

Senior Product Designer

- Design lead for Google AdWords reporting and insights.
- Co-creator of an internal prototyping tool (awarded Google impact award).
- 20% Project: Hangouts, Google+.

User Experience Designer

YouTube

- Product design lead for YouTube Creator Studio, specialisation Video upload, Editor (Video editor, Blurring, Info cards, Captions), and Creator Studio design language and workflow.

Product Design Lead

Mark Boulton Design

- Led UX design and development of responsive web applications and company products. Producing lo-fi wireframes, visual design, prototypes and front end development.

- Featured in the website build off for .Net magazine April 2011.

- Designed and Developed a snow forecast weather iPhone app which was #1 in its category on the app store.

- Clients include: Cern, Drupal, Warner Bros, ESPN and VPS.net.

Interaction Designer / Developer

Five Simple Steps

- I designed and developed the Mark Boulton Design’s publishing company’s responsive website. I also invented a mobile navigation design pattern which was featured in LukeW’s UX London 2012 talk.

- Technical code reviewer for Andy Clarke’s hugely successful ‘Hardboiled web design’.

- Designed and developed individual responsive websites for each book title integrated with WordPress. Featured http://mediaqueri.es/dwd/

VentureWeb (Vancouver)

- Responsible for building adventure sports and tourism websites using Drupal and WordPress.

- Other responsibilities were being involved at all stages of the development process, managing own projects, time-lines and liaising with clients.

Web Developer

Imaginet

Technical Developer

Product Design Lead and Manager with over 15 years commercial experience working in the software and web industry. Focusing on the field of User Experience, I am a multi-disciplined designer with the ability to work from business strategy / goals through to execution, working on ideation through to information architecture, prototyping, interface design and build. I have strong frontend development skills and I am also proficient in a number of server side programming languages. I have extensive experience running and facilitating usability studies and a variety of research programs. I relish the challenges of problem solving through design and strive to simplify complex interactions.

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