Principal Product Designer
Tangity is a global design consultancy that helps organisations tackle complex challenges through design, innovation and experience strategy.
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Director of Digital
Leading a small R&D team creating AI tools and open-access platforms to help organisations cut emissions and act on climate goals.
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Highlights included;
- Rapid prototyping and development of AI tools to influence large legal tech companies
case studyto embed climate-conscious content and features into their platforms. - Led and delivered data and product strategy that tripled the global user base of open-source legal resources, now reaching over 165,000 people annually.
- Developing and supporting a legal design practice that combines behavioural insights with design thinking
case studyto influence how legal teams in large organisations use risk to drive environmental agendas.
Head of Product Design
Led multi-disciplinary teams to design and deliver impactful digital products for government and private sector clients, tackling complex challenges from national security to education and energy transition.
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Snook was an award winning research and design consultancy, working with clients on difficult social and technological problems. Challenging projects and proud accomplishments include;
- Established high-performing cross-functional teams for challenging government work, supported through hands-on mentoring and structured project clinics.
- Principal design consultant and direct contributor on major projects for key clients;
- Turning data into intelligence: lead product designer on a new platform for the UK intelligence services, that analyses large amounts of real time data to identify risks at the UK border.
- Improving teacher retention in England: lead designer on a new digital product that onboards, checks eligibility and authorises payments
case studyfor 45,000 teachers and mentors every year. - Making energy systems modelling accessible and open: Leading a team to research and design a flagship product for an energy transition startup
case study, that provides simple and accessible energy systems models for analysts.
Principal Interaction Designer
Designed and developed self-serve procurement tools for government, established design standards, and actively contributed to the wider government design community through knowledge sharing and cross-departmental collaboration.
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The Crown Commercial Service is a central government department responsible for managing how the public sector buys goods and services. Highlights from my time here include;
- Guiding people through complex choices with confidence by building and testing a sophisticated search feature
case studythat helps public sector buyers navigate regulations and feature parity in commercial agreements. - Building design standards and community, through pattern libraries, supportive peer-lead critiques and inter-departmental service assessments.
- Collaborating across boundaries in government by presenting at international events and sharing in depth case studies.
Freelance designer and front-end developer
Working for design agencies, startups and independent clients from around the world.
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- Work: Visual identity, website
- 2017
- Work: UI design
- 2016
- Work: Visual design
- 2015
- Work: UI & visual design
- 2014
- Work: Visual identity, website
- 2014
- Work: Experimental packaging
- 2013
- Work: Digital Producer
- 2013
- Work: Designer & front-end developer
- 2012
- Work: Designer & front-end developer
- 2011
Designer and front-end developer (internship)
Internship with a pioneering digital democracy company building online citizen participation platforms.
Education
Digital Design & Technology (+ year in industry): BSc Hons (1st)
Testimonials
People i've worked with
Alaric works at pace and to a very high standard, not only because he is good but because he knows his way around a wide spectrum of different products. He's principled but not protective of his work, deeply knowledgeable but open to new opinions, super curious about all people and problems and very receptive to feedback and challenge. He's a deft negotiator, capable diplomat and in short, the best and least arse-y designer I've ever worked with.
Tom Hall
Principal Product Manager
Alaric is a joy to work with. Rarely have I seen a person be such an excellent design practitioner as well as a skilled and caring people manager. Knowledgeable, but always humble, assertive, but flexible, detailed-oriented, candid, joyful, supportive, organised and always reliable - that’s Alaric. (Based on 9 months of full-time collaboration).
Emily Franzini
Senior UX Researcher
Designers of Al’s calibre are a rare find. He’s diligent, highly skilled, warm, friendly and humble. His design process is outstanding, regularly involving and challenging the wider team in just the right way. He recognises what projects need strategically, while also being able to constantly suggest valuable and tactical improvements to existing features. He's coherent and efficient, but also super-engaging and fun.
Mark Avery
Lead Content Strategist
People i’ve managed and mentored
It's rare to find a mentor who is as genuinely invested in their mentees personal development as Alaric. He mentored me as I transitioned across industries, helping me to gain more effective skills in navigating the unknown, handling tricky stakeholders and how to approach evidence based design. But above all he helped to build my confidence and resilience in challenging environments. I count myself very fortunate for meeting Alaric early in my career.
Charlotte Weyer
Product Designer, Google
Al is the best design leader I have ever worked with. Over the 2 years I worked with him he lead the team to establish an excellent product design community at Snook. He builds trust between teams, creates environments where designers can do their best work and navigates complex situations with kindness and humility. Al is also a skilled design practitioner in his own right. His passion and knowledge for the craft is infectious and raises the standard of his whole teams work.
Tom Wicks
Senior Product Designer, The Body Coach