Antony Conboy

Lead UX UI Designer

London, United Kingdom
15 years of experience in UX UI Design creating some of the world's biggest websites and apps.
My mission is to share my knowledge with the next generation of designers.
I run a youtube channel teaching UX UI with 29K subscribers and 1.4M views. My online courses have 100K+ students.

Work Experience

Cisco Systems

Lead UX UI Designer

Increased page views to the Demo collection page by 3X and lowered bounce rate by 12%. Booking more Demos is key to revenue growth.

Redesigned a complex virtual computer network builder which will dramatically improve the sales experience for cisco sellers.
January 2018 - Present

Barclays

Lead UX Designer

Led a team of 8 Developers and 2 UX UI Designers creating 10+ complex financial components for Barclays.co.uk

Was a key member of the team creating Barclays Design Language. This is now being used across all of Barclay's websites and apps.

Lead the UX work on a responsive redesign of barclays.co.uk and migration to Adobe Experience Manager CMS.

This 300+ page site redesign won an award as World's Best Financial Website.
May 2016 - June 2017 United Kingdom

Barclaycard

Lead UX Designer

As a user experience (UX) Planner / UX Designer I act as the primary advocate for the customer or end “user” of the products and services Barclaycard create. My primary function is facilitating project discovery including: workshops, design research, analysis, communication of the research findings and translating the research findings into actionable insight for design. Other responsibilities include:

UX designer, CX designer, Wireframing, prototyping, usability testing, usability review, paper prototyping, persona development, user journey documentation, data insights, analytics, stakeholder management, UX prioritisation & planning, UX researcher, agile (scrum) environment team management and advocating customer centric design.
January 2016 - United Kingdom

Barclays

Lead UX Designer

A Acting as Lead UX designer I was the primary advocate for the customer
or end “user” of the products and services on barclays.co.uk.

My primary function was facilitating the public site redesign of barclays.co.uk and barclays.co.uk/premier along with improvement of the existing CMS platform. The scope was to redesign and improve 500+ pages across 2 sites including the design and development of a responsive module library created to be the building blocks of pages in the future and across multiple sites for Barclays.

Acting in a dual role of Lead UX designer / Project Manager for the final 4 months of the project I managed a team of 7 (5 Developers, 1 UX & 1 UI designer) to oversee delivery on a number of bespoke complex financial components / tools needed to reach our target of 2015 completion.

In Dec 2015 we delivered 2 fully responsive sites which since have doubled page views across the site and dramatically increased conversion.
September 2014 - December 2015 United Kingdom

Spring Studios

Senior Designer UX / UI

Senior UX designer / Senior UI designer on multiple responsive e-commerce projects.

www.canali.com
www.maxmara.com
www.marinarinaldi.com
March 2013 - April 2014 London, United Kingdom

BBC

Senior UX Designer

At the BBC I acted as Senior UX Designer / Researcher on the
BBC Homepage www.bbc.co.uk

6th most visited website in the UK (Alexa 2015)

My main remit was to research the future of the BBC homepage and create a site that evolved to users needs .


Responsibilities include:

Wire framing, prototyping, user journey development, usability testing, paper prototyping, persona development, data insights, analytics, stakeholder management, UX prioritisation & planning, UX researcher and advocating customer centric design.
September 2012 - February 2013 United Kingdom

British Vogue

Senior Designer UX / UI

Senior Digital Designer (Senior UX designer) on the first Tablet editions of Vogue.

Award: Digital Fashion magazine of the year
Award: Designer of the year Nominee
September 2011 - September 2012 United Kingdom

Wired Magazine - Conde Nast

UX Designer

Tablet Designer (UX) for the UK's first digital magazine.

Award: Digital Magazine of the Year, Digital Technology Magazine of the Year.
September 2010 - September 2010 United Kingdom

Education

The University Of Salford

BA Hons Graphic Design 1st Class

September 2007 - May 2010

Languages

English (Native),

Awards

Digital Magazine Awards

Designer of the year - nominee

2011

Digital Magazine Awards

Magazine of the Year

2011

Digital Magazine Awards

Fashion Magazine of the Year

2011

Digital Magazine Awards

Fashion Magazine of the Year

2012

Digital Magazine Awards

Tech magazine of the Year

2011

Skills

Customer Experience, CX, Graphic Design, HTML, Information Architecture, Project Manager, Prototype, Responsive Design, UI, UI Design , User Experience, User Experience Design, User Interface, Ux, Ux, UX Design, Web Design, Web Design, Wireframe,