Martin Wright
Design Director at Double True ltd
United Kingdom
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolMartin Wright is a Design Director with 12 years’ experience leading user-centred product and service design across public-sector and third-sector organisations in the UK. He combines strategic leadership—having managed large design operations and delivered government-standard end-to-end programmes—with hands-on front-end craft, contributing code and UI improvements to well-known civic open-source projects like mySociety’s FixMyStreet and Alaveteli. Comfortable operating between board-level stakeholders and delivery teams, he builds capability, runs design sprints, and balances user, business and staff needs to create accessible, impactful digital services. Now consulting through Double True Ltd, he brings pragmatic evidence-driven design and a background in computer science to complex platform and service challenges.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at Aberystwyth University
English
Github Skills (11)
html10
css10
maps10
javascript10
front-end-development10
reporting-services10
ui-design9
interface-design9
user-interface9
ux-design8
user-experience8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mysociety/alaveteli
Apr 2014 - Aug 2021
Provide a Freedom of Information request system for your jurisdiction
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 521 commits, 93 PRs in 7 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Martin primarily focused on front-end development within the repository, making design and wording changes to the sign-in and sign-up screens. These changes involved modifications to the HTML templates and the wording of various form elements. Further contributions included layout and design updates to the final request sent screen and the authority search page. Wording tweaks were also applied.
freedom-of-informationalavetelirequestjurisdictionaccess-to-information
mysociety/fixmystreet
Jan 2014 - Feb 2021
This is mySociety's popular map-based reporting platform: easy to install in new countries and regions
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 150 commits, 27 PRs in 7 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Martin primarily contributed to the front-end development of the FixMyStreet platform, evidenced by changes to HTML templates, CSS, and JavaScript files. Their commits involved updating the user interface for council pages, adding UTM tags to the footer, and modifying the contact form. They also implemented improvements to the map functionality and made adjustments to the dashboard.
civictechcouncilsmysocietyreactvagrant
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