Pete Hotchkin-jones
Design Lead at Blackboard
South Kesteven, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPete Hotchkin-jones is a Design Lead with 13 years of experience crafting user-focused products and scaling design systems across education and enterprise software. Currently shaping product direction and AI-driven experiences at Blackboard, he turns early-stage ideas into validated, sale-ready initiatives while co-owning the design system that ensures consistency and quality. He has a track record of improving design visibility and cross-functional alignment through new processes, and mentors and hires to grow design capability. Previously leading Modern Human Design and guiding students at Designlab, Pete blends hands-on prototyping and field research with strategic leadership. Based in South Kesteven, England, he combines a disciplined push for simplicity in UX with a personal habit of continually testing his limits—physically and mentally—to keep learning and evolving.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
The Deepings SchoolBachelor's degree, Digital Art and Technology, Bachelor's degree, Digital Art and Technology at University of Plymouth
Github Skills (5)
rails-app7
rails4
ruby-on-rails4
opal4
ruby3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
cambridge-collection/spacefinder
Jul 2015 - Apr 2016
The Rails app that runs https://spacefinder.lib.cam.ac.uk/
Contributions:61 commits in 8 months
ruby-on-railsrails-apprailscamruby
Glimpse/Glimpse.Site
Apr 2013 - Jul 2013
Contributions:56 commits in 3 months
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