Luke Holland standing in front of karst mountains in China, with a misty landscape behind him

Hi, I'm Luke Holland.

I design complex, regulated services, and I work to make them usable for more of the people who have to get through them.

I've done this across government, telecoms and the third sector, on the kind of regulated, high-stakes services people don't use by choice, claiming compensation after a crime, switching a mobile network, finding housing advice. They're usually harder to get through than they should be, and untangling that is the part I'm good at.

I care as much about the outcome as the journey, whether that shows up as a conversion rate, a running cost, or simply getting more people through a task.

Experience

2024–Present

Senior Interaction Designer

Ministry of Justice

Designing CICA's compensation journeys, taking services through GDS assessments, and setting the team's design standards.

2023–2024

UX Designer

Sky

Agent-facing tooling and customer journeys for broadband and mobile, including the first research-led work in the division.

2021–2023

UX Designer

Shelter Scotland

Sole designer on the website. Led the accessibility work, recognised in an independent WCAG 2.1 audit, and ran trauma-informed research with people in crisis.

2019–2021

Freelance UX and web designer

Various clients

Web and UX design for small-business clients, from brief to delivery.

Outside of work

I'm usually out on my bike. Other than that, I spend a lot of my time listening to music, and here's what I've been playing recently.

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