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
Senior Interaction Designer
Ministry of Justice
Designing CICA's compensation journeys, taking services through GDS assessments, and setting the team's design standards.
UX Designer
Sky
Agent-facing tooling and customer journeys for broadband and mobile, including the first research-led work in the division.
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.
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.