Chris Atherton
Designer at NAV
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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SeniorChris Atherton is a pragmatic interaction designer with nine years of experience shaping digital products and service transformations, particularly in public sector digitalisation. Drawing on a background as a cognitive neuroscience researcher and lecturer, he brings an evidence-based focus on cognitive load and attention to make complex services more comprehensible for users and teams. He has led design efforts across GOV.UK projects, large government departments in the UK and Norway, and civic organisations, combining hands-on interaction design with coaching and organisational change. Comfortable in fast, agile environments, Chris excels at visualising process and making invisible structure visible to stakeholders, helping organisations adopt better ways of working. Based in Oslo, he frequently bridges academic rigour and pragmatic delivery to improve accessibility, content strategy, and cross-team collaboration.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
English, Norwegian
Github Skills (22)
sanity10
structured-content9
realtime9
react9
workspaces8
css8
cms8
nav8
javascript7
tailwindcss7
frontend7
typescript6
omr5
storybook3
furry1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
navikt/Designsystemet-old
May 2019 - Aug 2019
Designsystem-teamet i NAV sitt offisielle område på Github
Contributions:31 commits, 3 PRs, 28 pushes in 3 months
reactdesignsystemomrnavdesign-system
netliferesearch/bergen-guide
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:29 pushes in 1 day
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