About

Hi! I'm Ghyl.

I am a qualified UX Designer and Visual Designer with a Professional Diploma in UX Design, Certificate in Software and Coding Fundamentals for UX and a BA(hons) in Graphic Media Design. I bring more than a decade's worth of proven design experience across a variety of industries, mainly agency experience. I am a problem solver, excellent communicator, collaborative, creative and empathic.

I am passionate about how simplicity and clarity make for a pleasurable experience within user-centred design. I am motivated by positive experiences having a beneficial impact on usability and love problem solving. I take an empathic approach to design, am open minded, an active listener, and ask the right questions in the search for the best solution. I heavily research everything I engage with, am naturally inquisitive and genuinely interested to learn.

I have excellent interpersonal skills, as comfortable speaking with C-Suite as with team members and the general public. I am a positive person, enjoy sharing my knowledge, being inclusive and lending time to others.

For the past 12 years I have had a successful career as a Presentations Designer, helping brands, companies and businesses engage, educate, inspire their audiences through well designed and thoughtfully crafted presentations. Taking complicated content and data and turning it in to something simple, beautiful and easy to comprehend.

I empathise with audiences, helping them understand complex information through well structured design so that key messaging lands and is retained. I spend a lot of time thinking about how information is perceived by an audience, how to make it clear and instantly understandable, whilst also sparking joy.

I have worked collaboratively as part of and also alongside a full design team where I have taken full ownership of my design output. Most of my work is self led, I often work independently yet am often involved in collaboration as part of a wider team. I have skills in creative strategy, prioritisation, problem solving and time management in deadline driven environments.

Clients have been a mix of Creative Agencies, Media Companies and Private Sector Businesses across a broad spectrum of industries; Creative, Arts, Technology, IT, Energy, Marketing, Advertising, Communications, Public Relations, Broadcasting, Fashion, Retail, Consumer Goods, Travel, Real Estate, Engineering, Finance, Health, Education, Sport and News in B2B and B2C.

My clients have included Dentsu, EssenceMediacom, M&C Saatchi, WPP, VML, Ogilvy, Cheil, H+K Strategies, 21CB, Hogarth Worldwide, BMB, Havas Media, Edelman, Digitas, Wavemaker, Sky, Discovery Networks, BBC Studios, ITV, NBC Universal and Knight Frank.

On a personal level, I have an active social life, am a keen gardener specialising in sowing and growing vegetables and herbs. I spend most of my weekends cooking and hosting for friends and family. I enjoy live music and travel (by rail where possible). Weight lifting, long walks and the occasional dip in the sea keep my body and mind healthy… ready to take on any challenge.