Danny Hearn – Person Centered Design Consultant

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20+years exp | Product Strategist | Service Designer | User Researcher

I have held a variety of roles at well-known brands, agencies, startups, and charities. My expertise lies in leading design teams, mentoring colleagues, and driving change through the power of design. 

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  • I’m currently available for new contract work from April 2023
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My relevant experience

Management & leadership

  • Managed & grew UX team at John Lewis for 5 years

  • Established first UX/UI team at Clarks as Global Head of UX

  • Developed design mentorship programmes for 100s of charities and social-good organisations, with design sprints

UX Strategy & Innovation

  • Developed and ran the first Hackathon at John Lewis, showing the business what rapid innovation could look like

  • Held Innovation Design Director role and consulted to WalGreens and Boots

  • Facilitated 100s of design thinking & user research workshops

UX Research & Design

  • Conducted user research activities for major clients, Walgreens, Clarks, Boots, John Lewis

  • Led site-wide redesign at major retailers Fitflop, Beauty Pie, agent provecture

  • Worked in SCRUM, AGILE, KANBAM, alongside BAs, Devs and product managers

What I'm looking for

Contract roles I fit into
  • UX Manager / Head of UX (mat cover/temp)
  • UX Director (mat cover/temp)
  • UX Consultant
  • Senior/Lead UX
  • Lead User Researcher
  • Service Designer
  • Experience Consultant
  • Principal UX

Preferred Sectors
Ideally (but not limited to) the following sectors; Social good, tech for good, Retail, Environmental, Crypto, Government, Startups, Education, Agency.
Culture 
I work best for inclusive and open work cultures that invite challenge and give a good level of autonomy.
 
Location

100% remote but can travel occasionally if needed. Currently based in Devon.

Working week
My preference is for 4-day per week with flexibility in mornings (child care drop off).  As I have family its important to me to stick to the working hours. 

I’m a good fit for 

  • A T-Shaped UX Generalist with broad roles that cut across lots of UX design disciplines works well

  • Unsticking problems, lack of research or overwhelmed teams

  • Tricky stakeholders with a need for someone with gravitas to bring things back on track

  • Divergent early stage projects, startups or big projects that are just starting

  • Ideation, workshopping and design sprints

  • Developing product/service strategy and roadmapping

  • Embedding and creating user centric culture

Not a good fit for

  • UI Design, detailed interaction and interface design

  • Roles that have very narrow focus and are soley tasked with producing one output

  • Working culture that demands late hours and long weekends

Client feedback

Danny was an integral member of our UX team. He provided a terrific understanding and empathy towards the retail experience we were designing. Danny introduced innovative ways of working, demonstrated solid and imaginative design thinking and built a good rapport with our clients. Danny is highly experienced, diligent, dedicated and I thoroughly enjoyed working with him.

Richard Rutter

Co-Founder

Danny is a joy to work with - he is a highly skilled UX professional who is passionate about bringing the best of that discipline to drive consumer-centric transformation - he is tenacious, compassionate and has a relentless drive to make things happen. If you need someone to help you lead your teams to a brighter future - Danny would be a great asset.

Lucy Calver

Digital Director

Danny was instrumental in helping to push the product development process forward. It was impressive to see how he was able to introduce and embed a range of innovative tools and methodologies. I would highly recommend him for guidance, coaching and leadership with product design teams.

Duncan Turner

Product Manager

Through his engaging presentation he brought his understanding and approach to understanding customer experience to life in a way that engaged everyone in the team at Fitflop. I really hope at some point I will work with and see Danny at work again !

Simon D Wright

COO

Rates & contracts

  • For rates I prefer to discuss it based on nature of role and length of contract but I generally price myself towards the higher end of the market rate
  • Preference for outside IR35
  • I work through my PSC – Deeply Human Design Ltd | 14615013 | VAT GB pending
  • References available on request.  You can also refer to my LinkedIN profile for recommendations

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