Rebecca Cottrell
Lead Interaction Designer at NHS England
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRebecca Cottrell is a Lead Interaction Designer with 12 years’ experience designing inclusive, usable public-sector and consumer products, currently leading the managing vaccinations in schools service at NHS England. She blends product thinking with hands-on prototyping and front-end development, having contributed full-stack UI work to high-profile open-source projects like the GOV.UK Prototype Kit. A former senior designer at Government Digital Service, she led cross-government efforts on critical priorities (including coronavirus and cost-of-living responses) and founded a Planet-centred Design community to embed sustainability into design practice. Rebecca runs her own design studio, mentoring teams to raise design maturity and integrate accessibility and inclusiveness into delivery. Her background in HCI, visual communication and UX for platforms from Google to Twitter gives her a rare mix of research-led empathy and practical execution. Colleagues describe her as a steady leader who pairs policy-scale impact with craft-level attention to interfaces.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MA Visual Communication, MA Visual Communication at Royal College of ArtBA Design for Communication (Hons), BA Design for Communication (Hons) at University of ReadingUniversity College London
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Github Skills (10)
html10
system10
system-design10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
sys10
prototyping10
javascript9
css8
expressjs7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
alphagov/govuk-prototype-kit
Oct 2015 - Mar 2022
Rapidly create HTML prototypes of GOV.UK services
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 7 PRs, 17 pushes in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Rebecca contributed significantly to the front-end development of the prototype kit, implementing new UI components and functionalities. Their work focused on creating and modifying HTML templates, specifically for pages like "check-your-answers" and "question-page," improving the user interface and user experience. The user also made changes to the server-side code to support the display of icons and manage static assets, suggesting a full-stack involvement. Additionally, the user updated documentation by introducing mainstream guide templates.
govprototype-kitprototypingprototypesgovernment
rivalee/rivalee_old.github.io
Aug 2017 - Feb 2020
Contributions:242 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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