Giles Perry
Director, Product Design at Skyscanner
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGiles Perry is a product design leader with nearly a decade in senior UX roles and more than 15 years’ experience spanning agencies, startups and global tech, currently directing Product Design at Skyscanner. He combines a rare background in engineering and fine art to marry rigorous technical thinking with creative, human-centred design, having led award-winning experiences for Canon, The Beatles and Foot Locker. A pragmatic advocate for design thinking, Giles drives UX strategy, lean/agile delivery and cross-disciplinary collaboration to translate user insight into measurable business outcomes. He’s delivered large-scale replatforms and ML-enabled features, coached and grown high-performing teams, and continues to advise hardware startup BleepBleeps on connected product experiences. An outspoken champion of design integrity, he pairs hands-on prototyping skills (Sketch, Figma, Framer X, React) with senior stakeholder influence to make complex technology feel intuitive.
9 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BA (Hons) Engineering, BA (Hons) Engineering at University of CambridgeMA Fine Art, MA Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of LondonBA (Hons) Fine Art, BA (Hons) Fine Art at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design
Github Skills (44)
framer10
spring10
headers10
animation10
columns10
gesture10
sketch-plugin10
backpack10
grids10
dimensions10
sketch-app10
clipboard10
rows10
adobe-xd10
sketch10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
perrysmotors/plugin-directory
May 2018 - Mar 2020
An official directory of Sketch Plugins
Contributions:6 PRs, 13 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 9 months
sketchappadobe-xddirectorysketchsketch-plugin
perrysmotors/figma-variant-organiser
Dec 2021 - Dec 2022
Figma plugin for automatically arranging variants in a grid and generating property labels
Contributions:31 commits, 12 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year
figma-plugingridfigma
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