Summary
Mark Boulton is a design leader with over 20 years’ experience building and scaling product and digital design teams across enterprise and startup environments, now leading Product Design, UX Research, Content Design and DesignOps for Checkout.com. He combines hands-on craft in typography and UX with strategic product thinking, having stayed practice-forward even as he moved into senior leadership roles. Mark founded and grew influential studios and a publishing imprint, led design transformations at organizations such as Monotype, EMBL and Google, and consulted on multilingual type work that helped bring Noto into Google Fonts. A prolific speaker and writer, he’s been a recognized voice in the web industry for 15+ years and runs a popular typography newsletter that reflects his deep editorial roots. Based in London, he blends cross-disciplinary design systems experience with a rare specialty in multi-script typography and content strategy.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Ba (Hons) Typographic Design, Ba (Hons) Typographic Design at University of Portsmouth
HND Graphic Design, HND Graphic Design at The University of Salford