Experience
My journey into product design.
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Senior Product Designer
Class Manager and Stage StubsLeading product design across the platform — design system ownership, cross-functional collaboration, and mentoring. Working closely with engineering and product from brief through to build.
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Product Designer
Class Manager and Stage StubsFirst in-house product designer. Led the redesign of a SaaS platform for kids' activity clubs, covering research, UX, UI, and the design system. Helped establish a design process that stuck.
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Product Design Internship
Riverford Organic FarmersUX improvements for the Riverford website, including a redesign of the pause delivery experience. User research, flow mapping, and high-fidelity designs delivered alongside the development team.
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UX Design Advanced Diploma with Specialisation in UI Design
Career FoundryIntensive programme covering user research, information architecture, wireframing, prototyping, and usability testing. This is what started the career change.
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Foundation HTML, CSS and JavaScript
SuperHiSelf-taught introduction to front-end development. Understanding how things are built has informed how I design them.
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Launched Lauren Hawkes Designs
Launched a greeting card design business, creating illustrated cards sold online and through independent retailers.
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BA (Hons) Architecture
University of GreenwichA degree that taught me to think in systems, consider users, and sweat the details. Not a traditional route into product design, but a useful one.