Ross Phelps

Service / UX / Design Leadership

Portfolio

Build Your Design Using No-code,

Quickly bring concepts to life with no-code tools like Replit, simplifying development while reinforcing coding fundamentals. Build the right thing from the start with intuitive platforms designed for rapid prototyping and iteration.

  • Dec 2022 - Nov 2023
  • Hybrid, London, UK / Edinburgh, UK
  • Client-Side Contract

British Gas, Unlocking Service Design Excellence

Led a team of 9 designers, instilling design thinking to yield strategic value across the energy portfolio. I defined and executed Service design frameworks facilitating meaningful design outcomes to meet broader organisational goals.

  • Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
  • Hybrid, London, UK
  • Client-Side Contract

BP, Designing a fleet management service

Strategically combined greenfield customer research, business requirements, and best practice to deliver a UX discovery and a global delivery framework for the BP SuperFleet initiative. Coaching the programme in defining the current and future state of an end-to-end conceptual models, feeding multiple product delivery squads and work streams.

  • Nov 2019 - Dec 2020
  • Hybrid, London, UK
  • Client-Side Contract

Tesco, Designing an enterprise product vision

Defined a strategic enterprise vision that enabled a new product concept or business proposition to transition through Tesco's own brand lifecycle. Defining the needs of 15 core user groups within a decentralised governance process.

  • May 2018 - Apr 2019
  • Hybrid, London, UK / Dublin, IRE
  • Client-Side Contract

Football INDEX, Football branded trading software

Initiated UX and gamification capabilities for a sports fin-tech hybrid startup. Redesigning native apps and a responsive website to incorporate NASDAQ’s order book framework, creating a positive behavioural change in user engagement habits.

  • May 2016 - Nov 2017
  • On-Site, Watford, UK
  • Client-Side Contract

Wickes, Digital transformation and ecommerce

Built, led, and managed a hyper-performing design team for the digital transformation of Wickes using CX/UX strategy, value proposition design, and platform optimisation. Increasing profits from digital channels by 51% year on year.

  • Oct 2015 - Nov 2015
  • On-Site, London, UK
  • Client-Side Contract

EY (Ernst & Young), Interaction Designer

Produced data visualisation and interaction guidelines for an internal analysis tool, used to compare Surgeons’ success rates within local authorities for NHS England.

  • May 2015 - Jun 2015
  • On-Site, London, UK
  • Agency Contract

Riot Games (League of Legends), UX Design Lead

Delivered a multi-language responsive website for the world's 4th most popular online multi-player game. Establishing user journeys for video on demand, content and ticketing.

  • Sept 2012 - Mar 2013
  • On-Site, London, UK
  • Client-Side Contract

The Football League, Senior Creative Consultant

Led the design process for the digital team across EFL multi-channel partnerships. Managing agencies to leverage customer brand engagement via a range of customer-focused experiential and digital touch-points.

  • Jul 2012 - Sept 2012
  • On-Site, Bristol / London, UK
  • Agency Contract

Unite, Consultant

Led the UX process of a customer-centric site experience for the leading provider of student accommodation in the UK, creating and refining requirements through co-design and game-storming workshops. Creating useful artefacts to engage key business stakeholders.

  • May 2008 - Jun 2010
  • On-Site, London, UK
  • Permanent

Gamesys, Interaction Designer

Created engaging interactive customer-first campaigns using intuitive and interactive UI concepts. Designed, tested and developed a loyalty promotion taxonomy to reward players for increased play. The framework contained a fully integrated back-end and visually stunning UI focused around gamification of content.