Iain Porter, service designer, UXDC

Experience

Across the brief, the system and the delivery.

A career spanning independent software work, enterprise design and cross-organisational service problems.

  1. c. Aug 2019–present

    NHS / Red Star

    Service Design Consultant · freelance work through Red Star

    Work through Red Star across separate clinical projects: service research and modelling, prototypes, detailed interaction design and implementation support.

    FLS: mapped and redesigned the service with clinical teams, including worklists, patient information and care planning. The multidisciplinary pilot reported 55% less case-processing time and 92% greater capacity.

    Detailed FLS case
  2. 2016–2022

    Registers of Scotland

    Senior UX Designer → programme-level service design and analysis → Business Analyst

    An initial registration investigation expanded into service analysis and modelling across the transformation programme. I connected customer, operational, legal, data and technology perspectives to make options and dependencies clearer.

    Later business-analysis work brought that understanding into digital registration delivery, including the response to COVID.

    Detailed RoS case
  3. Sep 2015–Jun 2016

    RBS

    UX Research & Design Consultant

    Research and design for customer-facing banking services, working with internal teams, suppliers and Fjord’s multidisciplinary service-design team.

    For mortgage work, I interviewed advisers in a NatWest branch to understand the domain and customers’ misunderstandings. Broader moderated research with customers and colleagues informed iterative designs and shared patterns.

    I also storyboarded a film explaining customer-led design to RBS’s Executive Leadership Team.

  4. Jun 2014–Sep 2015

    ACCA

    UX Consultant

    I introduced UX practice into an established £9m digital transformation programme, initially working on internal examination administration and marking systems.

    Research, information architecture, reusable interaction patterns and design documentation had to fit the pace of multidisciplinary delivery. PwC reviewed and approved the proposed integration of UX activities into the programme workflow.

  5. Nov 2010–Jul 2011

    Barclays Wealth

    Interaction Design Consultant

    Interaction design for the Stockbrokers platform, including authentication, search, usability and accessibility research.

    I built working relationships with operational stakeholders and standardised design documentation so people had a shared reference for decisions. My responsibilities also included coordinating visual-design and UI deliverables. The nine-month engagement included one extension.

  6. Since 1999

    Independent practice

    UXDC · formerly intraspin.com

    Independent practice has run alongside enterprise contracts: over 20 freelance clients, from small organisations and agencies to international scientific bodies.

    One Call Direct: designed and developed bespoke HR software bringing together employee records, administrative workflows and permissions, alongside other digital commissions.

    SPM: bespoke safety-management software. Other work includes community websites, e-commerce, agency collaborations and digital products.

    CropLife / IRAC · c. 2000–present
“He also took on a delivery responsibility for me and again he managed his deliveries successfully and gained my full trust in this domain.”
Andy CrambBarclays Wealth Technology · hiring manager

Other clinical questions, different constraints.

FLS provides the clearest operational result. The wider NHS work shows how the contribution changed with the problem and stage of development.

Heart failure

Working with clinicians and data specialists, I designed ways to explore population information, treatment gaps and individual patient information. Prototypes helped make the possibilities concrete for discussion and refinement.

Adult ADHD

I worked with service managers, psychologists and frontline practitioners to map the whole service and explore changes to pathways, information and technology. The challenge was to address capacity while retaining nuanced, individualised clinical assessment.

Hip-fracture care

Research into ward and management workflows informed concepts connecting care delivery with evidence of compliance. Integration with the existing clinical system remained a barrier: a parallel system risked double entry and diverging information.

Emergency care

I designed an interactive overview to help clinicians understand complex patient histories. Stakeholders positively validated the concept; it did not progress to operational implementation.

Let’s talk about the work.

If your service crosses teams, systems or competing priorities, tell me what you’re trying to change.