Hi, I'm Nick Jones—a Senior Digital Designer with over 8 years of experience delivering digital solutions across agencies, SaaS, and higher education. I currently run my own design services business, providing web design, UX/UI, branding, animation, and video on a contract basis, collaborating with global teams to maintain brand quality. I've built scalable design systems, brand collateral and templates that streamline workflows and ensure consistent experiences. I've led UX design for large-scale websites, built accessibility-minded UI components for student apps, and driven end-to-end UX within product teams. I enjoy user research, workshops with stakeholders, and translating insights into delightful, user-centered designs that balance business goals with usability.

Nick Jones

Hi, I'm Nick Jones—a Senior Digital Designer with over 8 years of experience delivering digital solutions across agencies, SaaS, and higher education. I currently run my own design services business, providing web design, UX/UI, branding, animation, and video on a contract basis, collaborating with global teams to maintain brand quality. I've built scalable design systems, brand collateral and templates that streamline workflows and ensure consistent experiences. I've led UX design for large-scale websites, built accessibility-minded UI components for student apps, and driven end-to-end UX within product teams. I enjoy user research, workshops with stakeholders, and translating insights into delightful, user-centered designs that balance business goals with usability.

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Hi, I’m Nick Jones—a Senior Digital Designer with over 8 years of experience delivering digital solutions across agencies, SaaS, and higher education. I currently run my own design services business, providing web design, UX/UI, branding, animation, and video on a contract basis, collaborating with global teams to maintain brand quality. I’ve built scalable design systems, brand collateral and templates that streamline workflows and ensure consistent experiences.

I’ve led UX design for large-scale websites, built accessibility-minded UI components for student apps, and driven end-to-end UX within product teams. I enjoy user research, workshops with stakeholders, and translating insights into delightful, user-centered designs that balance business goals with usability.

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Experience Level

Expert
Expert

Work Experience

Independent Design Services at Shephrd Creative
August 1, 2025 - Present
Support project direction, briefs, coordinating agencies/devs/freelancers across global offices ensuring brand quality. Built scalable design systems, brand collateral and templates that streamlined workflows. Designed and delivered websites end-to-end for startups and enterprise clients across HubSpot, WordPress, and Adobe AEM, including new SaaS/fintech launches and UX-led rebuilds.
Senior User Experience Designer at University of Canterbury
September 1, 2024 - August 1, 2025
Lead UX design for large-scale 20,000+ pages websites, creating design systems to streamline product scalability. Advocate for student needs, enhancing the digital experience with tailored, user-centered solutions. Design new UI components for a student mobile application, driven by user insights, meeting accessibility standards. Conduct user research and facilitate workshops with users and stakeholders to identify opportunities and define needs.
Digital Designer at Jade Software
September 1, 2020 - September 1, 2024
Subject matter expert for an AML SaaS fintech product, creating and distributing design collateral to 200+ staff globally. Developed a scalable design system for 4 new websites in the HubSpot CRM, reducing production time by 50%. Designed, prototyped, tested, and launched new products within the Product Innovation team. Created an AI-powered MVP for first-time homebuyers in a 5-day hackathon, using generative UI, resulting in 1st place. End-to-end UX design process with a leading dairy supply chain software, reducing their transport scheduling time by 28%. Presented conceptual ideas, detailed designs, storytelling, and design rationale to stakeholders.
Creative at Publica
November 1, 2018 - September 1, 2020
Developed brand identities, editorial designs, websites, animations, and applications across analogue and digital media.

Education

Graduate Diploma in Marketing at University of Canterbury
January 1, 2018 - January 1, 2019
Digital Content Creator (CCR) at University of Canterbury
January 1, 2018 - January 1, 2019
Bachelor Of Design & Visual Communications at Ara Institute of Canterbury
January 1, 2015 - January 1, 2018
Google UX Design Professional Certificate at Google
January 1, 2024 - January 1, 2024

Qualifications

Google UX Design Professional Certificate
January 1, 2024 - January 1, 2024

Industry Experience

Education, Software & Internet, Professional Services