Summary
Adam Parker is a Head of User Experience with over 20 years designing digital products and services across commercial and enterprise environments, currently leading UX at Gearset. He blends research-driven, iterative design with hands-on prototyping and usability testing to turn customer insights into measurable outcomes, favouring small, high-impact changes over vanity output. Adam has a strong track record building design systems, embedding UX practice into agile teams, and mentoring designers to raise capability across organisations. His background ranges from front-end development and analytics to strategic UX leadership, giving him uncommon empathy for engineering constraints and product metrics. Based in the UK, he pairs a BSc in Oceanography with a pragmatic approach to complex problem solving—often spotting subtle touchpoint improvements that materially improve user engagement.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Post-Grad Certificate Information Technology, Post-Grad Certificate Information Technology at Leeds College of Technology
BSc Oceanography, BSc Oceanography at University of Southampton