Volunteering has helped expand my UX/UI knowledge and has meant I have been able to mentor and inspire early career designers. I have also been able to offer my expertise to a charity to support them and help improve their user experience and accessibility.

I helped Graft Thames Valley and I carried out an audit on their entire site to introduce better usability and improved accessibility for their target users.

“It looks so much more user friendly and exciting! [My boss] will be doing cartwheels and other flips for joy !!!” - Maria Scott, Senior Beneficiary Office

I’ve spoken at York University and helped students with their projects for the MSC in Digital Design. I helped to shape a real life design challenge for the students as well as preparing materials for them to use. I then created and delivered a presentation and workshop at York University to help the cohort to understand the brief.

I have informally mentored junior designers outside of Anaplan and I have met with them regularly and carried out portfolio review to help them break into the industry.

“ Thank you so much for all your help and for looking out for me, I appreciate you so much!” - Amber Munn, Junior UX designer