Hayley Reid
UX Designer and Accessibility Advocate
I’m a Senior UX Designer working at a digital mental health service for adults and children.
The things that drive me in my workplace are:
-ensuring service users have a great experience
-Allowing practitioners to effectively carry out their job without frustration
Outside of work, I enjoy being outdoors and creative. A big passion of mine is dressmaking and textile art.
My Work
Accessibility Work
This section discusses my involvement with accessibility and details my current role as Accessibility Champion at FinancialForce
Discovery Cards
A set of cards I created, with an aim to guide discovery discussions in workshops and other settings ensuring important questions are asked
Case Study
A Centralised Slack Dashboard Concept
A concept created in response to an Adobe XD Design Challenge. A problem statement was created by me in order to guide its design.
Case Study
Setup Wizard
In order to allow our product to be installed faster by consultants and to reduce cost of implementation, my team built a setup wizard which would allow this to be done quicker and partially automated.
Case Study
Recognize All
In response to hearing of the displeasure our customers when using one of the core processes in our product, we decided to take a step in evolving our product by stripping back functionality and improving the process for customers. This project helped us discover the real pain points in this process.
University Honours Project
"A Digital Tool for Increased Usability of Dexterity Style Boardgames"
In this project I chose to study the accessibility of board games before then designing and developing a digital tool with the aim of increasing usability of a physically challenging board game. This was then tested to prove whether or not it had achieved this goal.
Data Visualisation
Can you design for accessibility?
A collection of posters created as part of a research study into whether computer science students felt they had the understanding to design and develop for accessibility