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At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Director operating in the UX Design space. If you think a Director is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Vernon Dias
Founder and Managing Director of Made by Fire
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About Made by Fire: We create digital products for our ambitious clients with a team of over 100 specialists.
Alastair Campbell
Director of Accessibility of Nomensa
With a background in psychology and an expert in human–computer interaction, Alastair Campbell is a leading light in the understanding of where man meets machines. He is driven by a desire to make the digital world accessible through the best possible user experience. The result is that those he works with can implement more humane interfaces that enable their customers to achieve their goals, inline with the core business goals. In 2001 he helped establish Nomensa, where he is the director of accessibility and user experience practitioner. He also works tirelessly on exciting new research and development projects to continually discover new methods and innovations to help people get the most out of online technology. His career milestones include pioneering the use of web standards within Nomensa and formulating and conducting thousands of usability and accessibility tests. In the latter case he has helped uncover how well people are being served by the technology they use. In all too many cases, the news isn’t good, but Alastair is determined to change that. For example, he lead the creation of an accessible Content Management System. This has led to work with some of the UK’s biggest brands across both the public and private sectors, including DirectGov, British Gas, the AA and the British Library. Away from the office Alastair enjoys windsurfing racing as part of the UK Windsurfing Association.
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About Nomensa: Nomensa are a strategic UX design agency transforming digital experiences.
Andrew Furlong
Managing Director of REO
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About REO: REO creates digital customer experience services for businesses.
Matt Garbutt
Creative Director of Greenlight Digital
Matt has been a digital creative his entire career, starting out in full service agencies in the late nineties through to in-house roles in the 2000s. In 2010, he co-founded a digital agency, followed by a creative production agency in 2013. Matt has extensive experience in a great many areas of digital creative and build, as well as video and film, motion graphics and above-the-line creative. In 2017, Matt’s digital agency and Greenlight joined forces, with Matt being appointed as the agency’s Creative Director.
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About Greenlight Digital: Full service digital marketing agency
Hannah Kimuyu
Director of Paid Media & Data Insights of Greenlight Digital
Hannah has been working in digital for over sixteen years, thirteen of which have been at Greenlight. A major element in Hannah’s success as a search professional is her historical knowledge and understanding of the way that search has grown over the years, coupled with her extremely specific hands-on experience. Hannah has been a key innovator in diversifying Greenlight’s paid media and data offering, moving the agency towards retargeting, audience insights, display, and paid social advertising, at a time when other agencies saw those innovations as a fad. As Greenlight’s Paid Media & Data Insights Director, Hannah is responsible for managing and delivering the agency’s paid media strategy for all clients. Through this role, she consults for some of Greenlight’s largest international clients, including New Balance, Superdry, ghd, and Victoria Beckham. In 2016, Hannah launched a second department; Data Science & Audience Insights. Partnering with Lotame, a data management platform, the service combines interaction, attitudinal, descriptive, and behavioural data to help brands understand who their customers are and what they’re buying with a cross-channel and cross-device focus.
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About Greenlight Digital: Full service digital marketing agency
Ben Cook-Northrop
Account Director of Greenlight Digital
Ben Cook-Northrop is an account director at Greenlight.
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About Greenlight Digital: Full service digital marketing agency
Joe Leese
Creative Director of The Makers
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About Runnit, The Makers: The Makers provides ‘Big Agency’ designers, animators, and videographers without the associated costs.
Andy Greener
Founder & Managing Director of Komodo Design
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About Komodo Design: We help great teams build exceptional digital products that people prefer to use.
Armin Talic
Commercial Director of Komodo Design
Bosnian-born. British-bred. Maker of lemonade. Director @komododigital. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
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About Komodo Design: We help great teams build exceptional digital products that people prefer to use.
Hugo Woodhead
Managing Director of Pilcro
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About Pilcro: Startups struggle to stay on brand. We are here to help. Manage your brand in pilcro.
Marcus Cooke
Director of Space Between
As Technology Director at Space Between, Marcus is responsible for coordinating the Biometric Research Team, who identify areas for improvement on eCommerce sites the use of CRO, UX and Biometrics. He has worked with some of the world’s leading eCommerce brands, including ASOS, Reiss, ghd and LEGOland, and includes partnerships with Adobe and Dot Digital. Marcus will be speaking about how he uses biometrics, along with traditional moderated user research methods, to quantify the UX impact of bad design decisions.
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About Space Between: Space Between are eCommerce Growth Specialists.
Adam Collison
Founder/Director of Soak Digital Ltd
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About Soak Digital Ltd: A digital experience and design agency, creating award winning digital & data solutions for some of the worlds leading brands
Jim Havers
Founder/Director of Soak Digital Ltd
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About Soak Digital Ltd: A digital experience and design agency, creating award winning digital & data solutions for some of the worlds leading brands
Jake Hithersay
Company Director of Soak Digital Ltd
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About Soak Digital Ltd: A digital experience and design agency, creating award winning digital & data solutions for some of the worlds leading brands
Liam Thorpe-Young
Technical Director of Lunar Works
Technical Director at Lunar Works. Bespoke web, app, and Progressive Web App (PWA) developer. Building Tech For Good.
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About Lunar Works: A specialist digital design & development agency based in Kent, UK. High performance websites, apps and PWAs for businesses & startups.
Alex Huntly
Design Director of Lunar Works
Design Director at Lunar Works. Bespoke Progressive Web App and Website Designer creating Tech For Good.
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About Lunar Works: A specialist digital design & development agency based in Kent, UK. High performance websites, apps and PWAs for businesses & startups.
Josh Carson
Director and Designer at GearedApp of GearedApp
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About GearedApp: Creating Exceptional Mobile and Web Platforms.
