sam lillicrap

Cryptocurrency and blockchain technology is changing the world at a rapid rate in every imaginable industry. I created EduCrypto to teach the fundamentals to people wanting to learn more and get into the Cryptocurrency space - and learn the rewards and risks of doing so. I believe it's a important development for society and I don't think anyone should feel left behind for lack of technical knowledge. I teach people around the world about how Cryptocurrency works - the power and practical use cases for the blockchain, as well as how to buy, sell, secure, and invest their funds to make returns in a space that is growing at an alarming rate.

Short term contractual project working on a mix of UX & Visual/interaction design for Sightsavers on a campaign launch for 2018. Sightsavers helps prevent avoidable blindness in endemic countries around the world.

Working on the UX & UI Design of Filmstros most vital products, including their standalone music editing applications for OS X & Windows, as well as plugins for video editing software such as Adobe Premiere Pro. My time at Filmstro has included introducing UX & visual design processes into the Filmstro team, to ensure we develop highly effective and usable products for our customers - as well as a full redesign of their current standalone application, to bring it up to date and make it far simpler to navigate, use and free up space to eventually incorporate new features. I implemented technologies to understand how our customers use our product offerings - and conducted solid user research to inform our design decisions & feature development. Also, I introduced new tools into the team, such as Sketch for designing, Framer for prototyping interactions, and Zeplin for precise design specifications for developer hand offs.

UX Research, Information architecture, wireframing, and visual/interaction design for an insurance product for a client of Eclipse Financial Systems. During my time at Eclipse, I worked with Business Analysts to pull together business requirements into user stories which I then worked through with others on the team to produce a high level Information Architecture, and then to produce wireframes of the initial product. I used component based/modular design to ensure that when development came around, as much of the design was reusable as possible, in turn creating a simpler, more consistent design - and a lesser workload for developers and designers alike, in a project where time was definitely of the essence! The product itself is under an NDA, and so I cannot disclose much more here.

I’m a UX, UI designer & Javascript Web App developer who enjoys helping companies & entrepreneurs with creating web apps that enrich lives, provide meaningful purpose, or encourage healthy living. Unlike my competitors, not only can I craft web apps, but I also know the ins and outs of how to use design to not only make my work aesthetically pleasing, but also to increase conversions, profits, and ultimately bring a return on investment.

Vibeshift is a coaching company that helps people uncover their purpose, monetise their passions, and become mentally clearer & stronger to transition into the next phase of their life. Vibeshift offers online courses, seminars, workshops and 1 to 1 coaching, supporting people in ultimately establishing a plan to pursue what really fires clients up, to make their lives more satisfying & fulfilling.

Conscious is a transformational technology platform and product suite designed to elevate human consciousness through AI-driven meditation, contactless biofeedback and rewarding users for participation. My role at Conscious has involved managing and being a part of both a design team, and development team across different timezones, to create a new innovative patent-pending technology suite designed to improve the emotional wellbeing of millions of people on a tight pre-seed budget, using computer vision technologies. With a fully fledged MVP build, Conscious is now seeking its first round of investment to take it's product to the masses!

I worked at the Scribble Digital Agency for a month, focusing mainly on the TagPoints project which can be seen above.

I was the drummer in Harting, and managed the band from 2011 to 2014. This involved acquiring slots at events around the country, which have included venues such as The Haunt, Concorde 2, the Roundhouse (Camden), Proud Camden, De La Warr Pavillion, O2 Academy and many more - such as festivals like Meadowlands 2013, and Farrfest 2013 in London. It has also involved the digital marketing of our demo's, which I successfully promoted on many different blogs and radio stations throughout the UK and in the US, including being featured on a national radio station in Spain - with 'Innocence' - Hartings most popular track, receiving a cumulative total of over 100,000+ plays across the internet, on sites such as Soundcloud & YouTube.

Web Design, development, iOS application design were the main elements to this internship. I also did some social media marketing on sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google + for the TagPoints brand. The work entailed designing all of the product from a CMS backend for marketers, to designing the consumer iPhone application to tie in with the CMS, as well as bug testing the real iPhone application and mocking up iPhone application designs for clients whom were interested in integrating TagPoints within their own loyalty system. The Tagpoints system that I designed has since been featured by businesses/organisations such as the BBC, Forbes, The Guardian, and CNBC and was later sold to SmartFocus.

During my time as a contract developer/designer at Makemedia, I have been involved in the Visual Design of two cutting edge big data applications, which are built/being built on the Front End using React w/ Redux. Initially I worked with Makemedias UX designers - using their clients initial brand guidelines - to produce high fidelity visual designs. I also worked with their clients to adapt their visual identity so to ensure they are at the forefront of current, intelligent design patterns, whilst maintaining their brand image. As Visual Design phases started to near completion, I moved on to developing these pieces of UI using a mix of HTML, CSS, Sass, Javascript, React.js + Redux - from building visual components, to hooking these UI components up to endpoints with real data, provided by the team of (very talented) back end developers.