Lauren Jane
Product Design
I love working with creative teams.
I’ve spent 15+ years inspiring teams to success at organisations like Autodesk and Backlight. I'm here to create good user experiences that people love & help businesses grow.
intuitive & knowledge-driven
I’m an intuitive, knowledge-driven designer with a unique and insightful perspective. I have worked primarily in creative software, including products for drawing, photography, and writing & editing for film, television and games. I design simple flows that enable users to manage complex tasks and data in a dynamic system, products and experiences that help users discover and share their thoughts, ideas, and understanding of the world around them.
2024-2025
Adaptis
Lead Product Designer ​
2016-2024
Celtx & Backlight
Lead Product Designer ​
Directly collaborated with the CEO and Product Managers to foster considerable growth of two product lines for Film & Television Production and Gaming & VR Narrative Assist Management
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Managing UX & UI for multiple simultaneous Scrum teams for dynamic, data-heavy and collaborative products
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Mentored junior and developing designers
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Worked closely with product managers, marketing, customer success, and user data to aggregate objectives into solvable user problems (ie: increased the verification rate from 60% to 98% through AB testing)
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Designed a complete style guide and design language, built and maintained the UX & UI libraries used by designers and developers, elevated and enforced design standards across the company by making them accessible to everyone
2015-2025
Fine Art Photographer
Freelance ​
Concept creation, execution, post-production and publication of fine art portrait photography with a focus on gender and sexuality. I have given various lectures, workshops, and presentations on fine art photography and portraiture.
Directly collaborated with the CEO and Expertise Team to prototype, design and deliver design for emerging decarbonisation AI for the construction and manufacturing industries.
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Delivered User Research and Personas, Site & Experience Maps, User Journeys and Flows
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Designed system & style guide for a complex, dynamic, data-heavy collaborative product with multiple layers of dependency
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Delivered interactive prototypes
2009-2016
Autodesk
Lead UX Designer ​
Lead UI and UX designer of a hugely popular photo editing app.
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Created a lasting design language for millions of users, and an effortless interface design still visible in the product today
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Multiple awards, i.e., Time Magazine 50 Best Websites 2013