Simon Whatley
Lead Service & Interaction Designer at Humane Design
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSimon Whatley is a Lead Service & Interaction Designer with two decades of experience shaping user-centred services at the intersection of design, technology and policy. He currently leads the "Becoming a teacher" suite at the Department for Education and has driven high-impact programmes across government including Brexit transition and the COVID-19 response. A founder of Humane Design, he combines hands-on web development roots with systems thinking to create sustainable, accessible and ethical products, and he now also teaches design practitioners practical user research and service design skills. His background spans startups, agencies and large public-sector programmes, and he has a PgDip in HCI with Ergonomics from UCL—bringing both technical craft and strategic empathy to complex, people-facing systems.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
2.1, BSc Geography, 2.1, BSc Geography at University of ExeterUniversity College London
Spanish, English
Github Skills (40)
styles10
eleventy10
javascript10
css10
typescript10
pattern10
apply10
publish10
knockoutjs10
nodejs10
mongodb10
react10
alpha9
user-interface9
ministry9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
simonwhatley/govuk-visual-studio-code-extension
Apr 2020 - Jul 2022
This extension for Visual Studio Code includes snippets to help build UK Government digital services.
Contributions:22 releases, 20 commits, 76 PRs in 2 years 3 months
visual-studio-codevisual-studio-extensionvscodevscode-extensiondigital-government
DFE-Digital/support-for-publish-prototype
Jan 2022 - Aug 2023
Prototype for the support console for the ‘Publish teacher training courses’ service
Contributions:92 PRs, 156 pushes, 87 branches in 1 year 7 months
publishconsoleteachertrainingprototype
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