Chris Hill-scott
Designer at Government Digital Service
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChris Hill-scott is a designer with 12 years’ experience crafting user-centred digital services, currently shaping products at the UK Government Digital Service from Bristol. Trained in typography and graphic communication (MDes, University of Reading), he blends strong visual discipline with interaction design practice honed across freelance work, editorial contributions, and an R&D internship at France Telecom. He pairs hands-on prototyping and operational savvy—evidenced by back-end and DevOps contributions to the widely used alphagov/govuk-prototype-kit—with a pragmatic approach to secure, shareable prototypes. Comfortable working across teams and constraints, Chris brings a mix of editorial sensibility and technical problem-solving that helps translate complex service needs into clear, usable interfaces.
11 years of coding experience
MDes, Typography & Graphic Communication, MDes, Typography & Graphic Communication at University of ReadingPates Grammar School
French, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
expressjs10
configuration-management10
environment-variables10
nodejs10
prototyping10
e-government9
devops9
g9
heroku8
html6
pie-chart6
php6
wordpress6
css6
docker6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
alphagov/govuk-prototype-kit
Aug 2014 - Jul 2020
Rapidly create HTML prototypes of GOV.UK services
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:17 commits, 5 PRs, 22 comments in 6 years
Contributions summary:Chris's contributions center around enhancing the GOV.UK prototype kit's functionality and improving its operational aspects. They implemented basic HTTP authentication, which allows for protected access to prototypes, especially when deployed for team sharing. The user also modified the Gruntfile.js to split a Grunt task into two and addressed environment variable handling, ensuring the application restarts upon changes to environment variables or specific files.
govprototype-kitprototypingprototypesgovernment
Crown-Commercial-Service/digitalmarketplace-frontend-toolkit
Jan 2015 - Jan 2016
Front end toolkit for the Digital Marketplace
Contributions:22 releases, 301 commits, 195 PRs in 1 year
marketplacereactlucky-frameworkjavascriptsolid-js
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