Ginestra Ferraro
Lead UI UX Designer at London Web Standards
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGinestra Ferraro is a Lead UI/UX Designer based in London with 11 years of experience designing web-first experiences and leading product design teams at PRODA and King's Digital Lab. She blends a strong visual background from advertising and branding with hands-on front-end skills (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and an MSc in Computer Science, enabling pragmatic designs that are technically feasible. A long-time co-organiser of London Web Standards and contributor to academic software sustainability, she connects community-driven standards with research-led UX practice. Comfortable freelancing and collaborating across institutions, she has a track record of shipping accessible, standards-compliant interfaces for complex research and enterprise projects. Notably, she pairs creative direction with developer empathy—often bridging design systems and implementation in production.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Graphic Design, 104/110, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Graphic Design, 104/110 at Istituto Europeo di DesignA Levels, Graphic Design and Photography, 60/60, A Levels, Graphic Design and Photography, 60/60 at ITSOS 'Albe Steiner', Milano, ItalyPHP, PHP at EMIT Feltrinelli (Politecnico di Milano)Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science, Merit, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science, Merit at Birkbeck, University of London
Italian, English, French
Github Skills (48)
django10
dante10
cms9
python9
flexibility9
user-experience9
wagtail8
cookie8
content-management-system7
digital-humanities7
visualization7
tricks7
content-management7
prototyping6
complexity6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ginestra/dante-visualised
Jan 2019 - Jan 2023
Visualising Dante's Divine Comedy
Contributions:85 commits, 15 PRs, 80 pushes in 4 years 1 month
pythondivinedantecomedyvisualization
londonwebstandards/lws-2020-hugo
Feb 2020 - Aug 2021
Contributions:80 pushes, 2 branches, 4 issues in 1 year 5 months
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