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

Tom Kiss

Double Fine Productions

Working as part of the publishing team at the beloved and one-and-only Double Fine Productions, managing doublefine.com and providing creative services to support a range of marketing and PR activities both across digital and print.

Senior Creative Designer

Dodeca Studio

Merging my interest in climate action with creativity and design. Developing a number of websites whilst following the principles of sustainable web design - learning much in the process.

Founder

Electric Brighton CIC

Developing a platform for promoting electric vehicles and sustainable transport in Brighton & Hove, providing free information and resources for anyone considering the switch to an electric vehicle.

Media Molecule

A fantastic decade working with the talented and BAFTA award-winning team at Media Molecule. I initially helped build and support the incredibly diverse and creative community around their hugely popular LittleBigPlanet franchise. Projects included the setup, design and maintenance of littlebigplanet.com for a number of years and the design & build of the LittleBigPlanet community web portal, lbp.me. I launched multiple versions of mediamolecule.com, plus built the first company intranet.
Later, I worked on an exciting internal project developing aspirational concepts for what Sony's next-generation console, Orbis, could turn out to be. These ideas fed into what then became PlayStation 4.
I went on to work on the joyful paper world of Tearaway (and Tearaway Unfolded), developing UI concepts and an extensive Papercraft Collection as part of the game, plus overseeing the design & development of the community portal, Tearaway.me. I also created the typeface, "Mm Paper", used extensively in both versions of Tearaway and the websites.
Media Molecule then moved on to its highly ambitious project, Dreams. In the early stages of the project, I used my experience from Media Molecule's previous products; planning out components and functionality in community and social areas. I then worked on concept UI designs for these aspects, looking at wider areas of design around search and discovery. Towards the middle of the project, I moved back on to aspects of the web service before launching the social and community portal for the game, indreams.me alongside the Early Access and full release of the game.

Designer

Self Employed

Freelancing again gave me some valuable experience and helped broaden my skill range further - designing & building websites and developing user interfaces for Adobe AIR software.
I worked with Brighton based design studio Yard, and their clients who included So Connected (part of the Selfridges & Co), Luxury Briefing and Blink eyebrow bars. I also worked at Mosaic, a full service agency, working in-house at their central Brighton based office. Some personal clients at this time included Music House International Licensing Ltd, Pitter Patterns Jewellery, WB Digital and YouNeedABudget.com accountancy software.

Interactive & Print Designer

Brightwave Group

A short term contract position delivering interactive Flash-based e-learning applications for Brightwaves leading clients, including Virgin Atlantic and Vodafone.

NCsoft Europe Ltd

Joined NCsoft Europe as the company's first Designer near its early beginnings, gaining a tremendous amount of experience.
A key part of the role was developing and building video game community sites for the company's international MMO titles.
I worked on all aspects of marketing material, from magazine advertising, clothing, billboard design, point of sale, flash based marketing sites, event giveaway items to viral marketing. I was responsible for the production of nearly all of Tabula Rasa's European marketing material, including the games packaging design. 
I produced a large amount of concept designs, style guides and interaction prototypes for the development of NCsoft's digital distribution software.
I was responsible for the design, production and authoring of NCsoft Europe's game launching software, present on retail discs and trial discs.
I also produced concept UI designs for three unreleased video games.

Designate

Working on a range of projects for high profile travel and tourism clients such as Best Western Hotels and P&O Ferries, it was great to work in a busy and productive full service agency.
I learnt some valuable skills at Designate, such as building websites to meet Web & Accessibility standards and working in a .NET development environment.

Web Designer

I've completed a number of freelance projects over the years, and during 2003/2004 I had some of my largest jobs.
Clients have included IPC Media (Loaded, NME & Nuts Magazines), Provident Financial, Music House International Licensing Ltd, Brightwave and Free2air Recordings; with work varying from Flash games, microsites and custom built full PHP content management systems.

Freelance Interactive Designer

Virgin Radio

I worked as part of the busy in-house new media team, producing microsites for on-air and online advertising campaigns, updating the Virgin Radio website with new content, taking photos of the bands when they were in to record sessions.

• Highly motivated
• Broad skill range
• Strong attention to detail
• Quite likes wigs

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