Colin Dodds
Service Designer at UK Health Security Agency
Dunbar, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorColin Dodds is a human-centred service designer and research software engineer with a PhD in human-computer interaction and over a decade of experience building learning-focused web applications and public health services. Currently a service designer at the UK Health Security Agency, he has led service assessments, redesigned national surveillance and chemical hazard information services, and is a trained cross-government service assessor. His background blends participatory design and UX research with hands-on full‑stack engineering (JavaScript/Node.js), having built learning analytics, participant support dashboards for pan-European clinical projects, and a multimedia language-learning platform. Colin’s research-led approach—rooted in co-design with diverse participants from children to clinicians—helps translate complex requirements into usable, evidence-backed services that have earned multiple internal awards. Based in Dunbar, Scotland, he combines academic rigor with practical delivery across government and academia.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (22)
web-audio-api9
audio7
api7
nodejs5
javascript5
node-module4
wordpress2
python2
docker1
data-management1
apache-airflow1
middleware1
deploying1
docker-stack1
docker-compose1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ColinBD/LED_climbing_wall
Apr 2019 - Jul 2023
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
ideafast/wp3-api
Jan 2022 - May 2022
Public facing API for WP3 service
Contributions:8 reviews, 6 PRs, 11 pushes in 4 months
wordpressapi
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