Danny Barnes - Product Designer

About me

I’m a creative, resourceful and reliable visual designer with over 10 years of experience. With a broad range of skills and a passion for design, I feel I’m an asset to the projects I work on.

I’m a versatile worker and multi-disciplined designer – I like to immerse myself in projects and I’m not afraid to get my hands dirty, whether it’s rolling out a design system in Figma (or Sketch), putting together a prototype in ProtoPie, or using After Effects to create animations and visualisations.

Well-versed in the design process and happy to get involved in projects at any stage, either managing a wider team or working independently. I’m confident presenting designs to stakeholders and bringing digital products to life.

Work Experience

March 2021 - Present day

Nando's

Lead Product Designer

I’m currently the lead designer on the App Experience team. Working closely with the product owner and developers, we’re bringing in new features to the app and improving the overall experience of the app. I also work with the other domain teams to ensure the designs are consistent and working to streamline  the ways of working within the team. I’ve redesigned the home screen, helped to create a menu photography Figma plugin and began to work on a design system in Figma. I’m also producing animations and bringing more interactions into the app, which will help to convey the Nando’s brand personality.

July 2020 - March 2021

Hastings Direct

Lead Product Designer

Working as part of a newly formed CX Hub, I led the design for their app-first strategy. I redesigned the dashboard and streamlined the UI and user experience. I also worked on the in-appmid-term adjustment journeys from start to finish, from workshop to final UI. I’ve also developed a proposition of future features, which was presented to the CEO and successfully gained funding.

June 2020 - July 2021

Den / Elixer

UX / UI Designer

I worked on a couple of fast-paced projects for both Wesleyan and BAT. These both involved workshops with the stakeholders and creating rapid wireframes and prototypes for user testing

October 2019 - March 2020

Somo

UX / UI Designer

I spent some more time at Somo, working on more interesting projects for web and app for a range of great brands

Met Office Apple Watch

I worked with a small team to create a fully functional Apple Watch app for the MET for a pitch.

Clim8

Clim8 is an investment app that focuses purely on sustainable projects and companies. Working as part of a small team, we undertook a 4 week design sprint that involved competitor analysis, developing the look and feel, wireframing out the the end-to-end journey and producing a working prototype for user testing.

Mettrr

Mettrr is a new website building tool. I worked within a small team to help shape the experience. I worked on the onboarding journeys and also worked with the developers to create customer-facing web templates.

June 2019 - July 2019

The App Business

UX / UI Designer

I was brought on-board by TAB to help out with the design of Oaknorth’s banking app. Over a 3 week period, I supported the team, producing designs for the iPhone and Android apps.

April 2019 - May 2019

Rightly

UX / UI Designer

Rightly helps people manage their data that companies keep from them. I joined them to help design the dashboard and the initial user experience when users make their first data request.

October 2018 - March 2019

Somo

UI Designer

I joined Somo to help on a number of projects for a wide variety of clients, all of which involved working across UX and UI.

Siemens Financial Calculator

Siemens’ current tool for providing clients with finance options is dated and clunky. With the loose wireframes provided, I created high fidelity designs for a progressive web app that would simplify Siemens’ ability to provide finance options. I created a clean design that worked across all breakpoints, and added in some animated details to bring the tool to life.

BP Fit For Future

The BP graduate scheme requires users to complete a myriad of tasks. These are current accessed via a poorly designed and outdated system. Our brief was to redesign the experience. I started by creating wireframes with a streamliend journey, based on the existing screens. These were further refined after conducting interviews with 3 existing users. I also developed a few different look and feels for the client to choose. Once a decision was made, I created an interactive prototype in Flinto, which was shared with a wider group of users and stakeholders.

HSBC

Working closely with the team at HSBC, I developed loose wireframes and created designs for a form portal for HSBC Singapore. With a few different stakeholders, the project required to tight feedback loop with quick iterations to the user journey and designs. Once designed, I prepared the files for handover to the agency completing the build.

December 2014 - April 2018

Tesco Bank

Visual Designer

I worked on Tesco’s innovative payments app from when it was a closed trial app. During my time, I helped take it from proof of concept to a fully-branded Tesco app which is used by over 500,000 Tesco customers. I led the redesign team and worked closely with the developers and product owner to ensure we created an app that Tesco customers found easy to use on a day-to-day basis. As well as the app, I designed emails, internal stakeholder animations and presentations, animations for advertising in-store and I also worked on the future features for the app, creating visuals, animations and prototypes for user testing sessions.

August 2013
 - December 2014

M-Digital

Visual Designer

I created flash banners, email designs, microsites and social media posts in this fast-paced role for Morrison’s London creative studio.

Tools of the trade

I like to use a wide range of tools to get the job done.

Figma
Sketch
Photoshop
Zeplin
Protopie
After Effects
Illustrator
Auto Desk Sketchbook
Miro
Lottie
Invision

Interests

I’m a keen photographer and videographer, lending my skills to local charities where I can. I’m also developing some narratives for some short stories / animations and spend a lot of time having fun in After Effects and working on other video projects. I’ve also found a fresh love of playing the drums.