Matthew Bull

Summary

20 years experience as UX/UI designer and frontend developer.

Lead on UX, user research, data and business needs analysis and UI design for a corporate website rebrand and restructure. This led to the large-scale simplification of the website, a modified brand, and a design of a new student-focussed area of the website.
User research and UI design for a corporate data system. I built a pattern library which was used by developers on the project to build new sections of the system.
Work directly with marketing to design (Figma and Sketch) and build new web patterns and designs to help build a better overall student recruitment experience.
Implemented a new corporate brand on the university’s web estate. Used Figma and Sketch to design new web components. Building new components with javascript, Sass, HTML, PHP, Vuejs, Alpinejs and Nextjs.
Develop using Laravel and Laravel Nova, for maintaining the system backends which drive our suite of APIs.
Analysis of Google PageSpeed Insights and Core Web Vitals. Implemented the performance improvements using Vuejs, Alpinejs, webpack, code-splitting and lazy-loading.
Improved the user experience by getting full W3C AA compliance on the university website. It was the first university website to achieve ASPIRE Education Gold 100% compliance.

Part of a team that built and designed a university course system. This system still drives the university’s course information pages - a key university product page.
Responsible for building frontend and backend systems with PHP, MySQL, jQuery, CSS, HTML.
Wordpress coding, including implementing the university-wide blogs.kent.ac.uk site.

LexiQuest, Paris. Language technologist and Java coder. 2001 - 2002.
Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products, Belgium. Language technologist and perl/shell programmer. 1998 - 2000.

9 years experience. Card sorting, focus groups, interviews, data analysis.

Part-time UX Developer role in my team since early 2014.
A pencil and paper are probably the most important tools! Also using Photoshop, Pixelmator, and building markup quickly with Bootstrap and CSS3+Less.
Discovery phase: user interviews, persona development, storyboarding, simple wireframing and sketching.
Pattern libraries. I helped instigate a work-in-progress pattern library for a new University of Kent web theme. See https://github.com/unikent/user-experience.
Experience with simple A/B testing and analysis of user journeys in Google Analytics.
Familiar with implementing WCAG 2.0. Followed the Google web accessibility course. See https://webaccessibility.withgoogle.com/

8 years experience Sketch. 2 years experience Figma. UI design, pattern library design.

11 years experience. Accessibility user testing (screen readers, user interviews). W3C compliancy.

5 years experience. Google PageSpeed Insights and Google Lighthouse analysis. Frontend modifications and performance improvements.

19 years experience. CSS, Sass, Less.

19 years experience. Vuejs, Alpinejs, Nextjs, jQuery, native javascript.

19 years experience. Laravel, Laravel Nova. PHPUnit.

19 years experience. Gitlab CI. Webpack.