Alice G Herbison

January 2022 - May 2024 | Edinburgh

Tech stack

TypeScript (JavaScript ES6), React, GraphQL, Redux, Electron, Storybook, Yarn, CSS modules, Vidyo API

Key achievements

• Solely designed and implemented all front-end architecture for the web and desktop (Electron) versions of ClassView, a video conferencing platform for further education.
• Established CSS approach and compartmentalisation; built all application components into Storybook (viewable online).
• Refactored legacy codebase; updated React components from classes to hooks; changed Redux to GraphQL for data management.
• Designed theming implementation (including branding and palette design) for initial light and dark themes using layered variables.
• Built accessible, responsive, mobile-first layout for video calls.
• Project-managed a team of six and mentored junior front-end developers.

April 2019 - December 2021 | Edinburgh

Key achievements

• Sole developer for building Telequre (online doctor appointment calls and scheduling) from scratch in React with Redux.
• Re-configured and implemented desktop-only designs into a mobile-first, completely scalable interface.

January 2015 - January 2019 | Edinburgh

Key achievements

• Used behavioural economic and psychological principles to encourage greater initial investment per ISA account opening for Scottish Friendly which increased average order value by £10 per customer.
• Proposed and led interactive prototyping methods for new online medical research platform to illustrate and iterate desired functionality/requirements for each client. Increased ease of remote feedback and testing by providing valuable proof-of-concepts for ideas.
• Conducted user research and acted on findings to redesign online course finder for City of Glasgow College, streamlining search process and filter options to those most valuable to prospective students.
• Championed user research inclusion in projects with small budgets, working within tight timeframes to produce ideas from as much research as possible.
• Established a framework for integrating and acting on research findings depending on stage of agile project.

Led user research, user journeys, site planning, information architecture and template layouts for Street Soccer Scotland, Drinkaware, Robertson, National Galleries of Scotland, City of Glasgow College, and Powderbeds website redesigns, and a power-generator monitoring iPhone application for Aggreko. Clients for smaller pieces of user experience work included RBS, Scottish Friendly, Nando's, Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society and My World of Work (Skills Development Scotland).