Christina Gyles
Senior Interaction Designer at Defra
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChristina Gyles is a Senior Interaction Designer with nearly a decade of experience simplifying complex public and private sector services through user-centred design, research, and content strategy. She brings hands-on front-end skills—designing in code with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Nunjucks—and builds interactive prototypes with the GDS Prototype Kit while applying Service Standard and design principles. Christina has led multidisciplinary agile teams across government, local government and commercial projects, managed large content teams, and served as a trained GDS Service Assessor and internal design assessor at Defra. She combines practical analytics and testing experience from e-commerce and local authority roles with a track record of developing internal capability through training and communities of practice. Known for translating complex policy and technical constraints into clear user journeys, she often bridges the gap between design, content and engineering to deliver usable, auditable services.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BA Hons, Fine Art, BA Hons, Fine Art at University of PortsmouthHavant College
Github Skills (9)
warnings7
environmental7
apply6
planning6
rebuild6
aws4
sandbox1
container1
testing1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
DEFRA/environmental-permit-prototype
Feb 2019 - Oct 2019
Front facing online application for Apply for an environmental permit. Rebuild into the new GOV Design System.
Contributions:31 PRs, 179 pushes, 33 branches in 8 months
govenvironmentalapplyrebuildpermit
defra-design/flood-map-for-planning-2
Jun 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:10 PRs, 85 pushes, 14 branches in 9 months
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