LUCY MCCULLOUCH
UX Designer

HOLLIE LUBBOCK
Design Lead

JAN SRUTEK
Lead Product Designer

JULIAN CARAULANI
Senior UX Designer

LARA HANLON
Designer and Facilitator

SHELBIAN FUNG
Product Designer

STRATIS VALACHIS
Senior UX Designer

VIBHA BAMBA
Design Lead

CHRISTOPHE MALLET
Co-Founder

SUKHADA JOG
Manager, UX Research

SAVRAJ MATHARU
Founder & Programme Director

Educator and technologist Savraj Matharu is a leader in digital, interactive media and creative technology with a track record of success. Ranging from developing and creating powerful apps, creating compelling user interfaces to digital online branding through innovation and contemporary workflows.

Being widely recognised for his entrepreneurial skills with the ability to monetize creative ideas through technology, Savraj’s work relies on building on innovation protocols with consumer faced outcomes for creative industries, and has been responsible for founding and co-founding several successful technology initiatives with international recognition.

VIKKI PATERSON
Design Lead

For the last three years, I’ve been leading a global team of designers working in the area of Internet of Things. I started my career as a designer 15 years ago designing Java applications for Nokia mobile phones. I then moved to IBM as a designer on their predictive analytics platform before being promoted to my current role. As well as being the design lead I’m also an experienced UX designer and enjoy the opportunity to teach ‘Design Thinking’ to clients from large corporations.

TOM STEWART
Senior UX Consultant

Tom is a designer, thinker and problem solver, currently making it happen at Webcredible as a Senior UX Consultant. He leads projects for his clients, and helps develop products and services that drive tangible business change.

Tom has worked on service design pieces to solve the urban food waste crisis & changing perceptions of cycle safety within the Boris bike rental system. Working professionally on both client and agency side, his previous role at TomTom was spent designing sat nav systems & their surrounding digital ecosystems.

STUART SCOTT
Interaction Lab Manager

Stuart Scott is a commercially experienced Design Researcher / Interaction Designer adept at simplifying complicated experiences through the application of best practices in interaction design. He is currently managing City Interaction Lab a digital product design and innovation consultancy based in City, University of London.

MARTIN JARVIS
Director of Product Management, Mobile & Bots

Martin is part of Oracle’s Mobile Cloud and Bots team, responsible for customer and partner success. With more than 15 years of experience working in Enterprise Mobility and now Bots, he has practised all aspects app development from concept to design, through to implementation.

He’s just as comfortable discussing the business and commercial opportunities from going mobile or with Chatbots as he is the solution architecture. He is a certified Enterprise Architect and has always had a flair for applying the latest technologies to solve business problems. In his spare time, he’s also a passionate volunteer for Code Club (part of the Raspberry Pi foundation), helping primary school children build and develop their IT and coding skills.

MICHAEL ALBERS
Founder

Michael is co-founder and director at W12 Studios with over a decade experience designing digital products. He oversees the overall creative output of the studio. Previously he worked for IDEO where he developed propositions in the automotive, financial, FMCG and media and entertainment sectors. After IDEO he went to the BBC where he oversaw the development and application of the Global Experience Language across the entire BBC online portfolio, launched all iPlayer mobile and TV apps and developed the digital strategy for BBC online.

He won the CHI2004 award and the Design Week award in 2010. He has been featured in Wired magazine and involved in numerous judging engagements.

Mike received his MSc from the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea and a double BFA from the Savannah College of Art & Design in Industrial and Furniture Design.

TSVETELINA VALCHEVA
UX Designer

With a degree in Computing Science, Tsvetelina is a techie who saw the light and converted to UX. Nowadays she works for an internal consultancy in Standard Life, designing websites for clients. Previously she worked on Standard Life’s Secure Online Servicing, and before that – the mobile app. Previous employers include BT, Deutsche Bank and Citibank.

JANE MINTO
UX Consultant

Jane is a creative problem solver, with an affinity towards great product design. No working day is the same, but the core of the approach she takes to overcome design challenges remains the same – creating a deep empathy and understanding with users to help them better communicate and interact with the world around them.

She in interested in using new and emerging technology to push the creative boundaries of UX design and problem-solving. She is also excited to see how emerging technology will start to disrupt the traditional UCD process.

MATTHEW DICKSON
Business Innovation Consultant

ALEXANDROS STYLIANIDIS
Product Designer

An advocate of user-centered and data-driven design, Alex is a Product Designer at Novoda, with a strong background in engineering. In the never-ending quest of discovering how people use technology and how we can make it as simple as possible for everyone, he pursued a MSc in Human-Computer Interaction.

Lots of research, a bunch of experiments and a publication later, Alex is always on the lookout for new interactions and interfaces.

GEMMA YUSSUF
Business Development Manager

Some people call me a chatterbox, maybe that’s why I am the expert when it comes to Chatbots.

Gemma heads up Mobile Cloud Enterprise (Apps, Chatbots and Customer Experience Analytics), IoT and API Platform for the UK in Business Development. I run and present at regular events such as Chatbot Roundtables, which are aimed at LoB to introduce them to the best practises on Chatbots, demonstrating Intelligent Bots platform (IB) as well as many different use cases, helping engage the audience and get them thinking how this could align to their business and automate repetitive tasks .

I have spent over 2 years at Oracle, but previous to that spent almost 7 years at Microsoft where I was an evangelist for mobile apps. In my spare time, I drink lots of Earl Grey tea because it keeps you young (looking) and a massive chocoholic. I like to spend time with my amazing family (fiancé Rob and my toddler Isabelle), spending our hard earn cash on luxury holidays and experiencing everything we can, (at 6 months she went swimming with dolphins in Bali). Other than travelling, I am into my gigs, UFC and Cooking.

JOE HEARTY
Associate Design Director

Joe Hearty is a Designer and Creative Director based in London with 8+ years experience in Digital Product. He has worked across a variety of disciplines in Academia and Industry, with a focus on Digital Design and Technology.