tim caynes – experience design

understanding people to make better things

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20+ years of in-house, freelance and agency design, working with start-ups, small to medium businesses and some of the largest companies in the world, using insights to drive design strategy and deliver the right things for the right reasons.


talk to me about design leadership, design strategy, digital transformation, customer insights and analytics, information architecture, content strategy, design operations, building sustainable design teams, developing a culture of design, product and service design and delivery, designing for enterprises, communicating design outcomes, executive and c-suite stakeholder engagement, conceptual design, design systems, accessibility, localisation, and loads of other things I’ve probably missed.

talking about design

IA Summit 2011, Denver, Colorado​

I’m not just making this up: The value of thinking time in experience design

IA Summit 2012, New Orleans, Louisiana

Designing the mobile wallet

London IA 2012, London, England

Designing the mobile wallet

IA Summit 2014, Baltimore, Maryland

Architecting a Sustainable Design Team for Long-Term Growth

UX Poland 2014, Warsaw, Poland

Architecting a Sustainable Design Team for Long-Term Growth

UX Ireland 2016, Dublin, Republic of Ireland

Intelligent guides: architecting systems for context-driven interactions

IA Summit 2017, San Diego, California

Intelligent guides: architecting systems for context-driven interactions

UX Scotland 2017, Edinburgh, Scotland

Surgical UX

UX in the City Oxford 2017, Oxford, England

Surgical UX

UX in the City Manchester 2017, Manchester, England

Workshop: Articulating design: developing stronger narratives to communicate value

Giant Healthcare 2017, London, England

Intelligent outcomes: Practical applications of learning systems to improve patient experiences

UX Live 2017, London, England

Intelligent Guides: Architecting Systems for Context-driven Interactions

UX Cambridge 2018, Cambridge, England

Intelligent outcomes: Practical applications of learning systems to improve patient experiences

Euro 2018, Dun Laoghaire, Republic of Ireland

Surgical UX

UX South Africa 2018, Johannesburg, South Africa

Workshop: Design stories: Developing stronger narratives to communicate value

Keynote: Intelligent outcomes: The design of learning systems to improve patient experiences

Surgical UX

UXD Healthcare London 2018, London, England

Surgical UX

IXDC 2018 Beijing, China

Closing the empathy gap: The design of intelligent systems to improve patient experiences

UX Singapore 2018, Singapore

Workshop: Design stories: Developing Narratives to Articulate Design Decisions

Web Expo 2019, Prague, Czech Republic

Surgical UX

UX Healthcare Online 2020, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Adventures in Surgical UX

UX Live 2021, London, England

Craftscaling: StudioOps for Sustainable Growth

writing about design