Westley Knight
Founder & UX Designer at Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Greater Northampton Area, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolWestley Knight is a founder and UX designer with 10 years of focused experience designing end-to-end government digital services and a 25-year background in prototyping user-centred products used by millions. He builds practical UX guidance, reusable interaction patterns and research-ready prototypes that help multi-supplier teams deliver compliant, buildable services in complex policy and platform environments. His work spans central government departments and large enterprise clients, repeatedly taking services from discovery through successful beta assessments and high-adoption public launches. Westley combines hands-on prototyping and front-end development experience with service blueprinting and design governance to reduce delivery risk and speed decisions. He has a track record of translating messy operational constraints into clear, testable journeys and pattern libraries that teams can reuse. Based in Northampton, he now focuses on scaling practical UX resources, tools and courses to strengthen everyday design practice.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computing, BSc Computing at Buckinghamshire New UniversityHND Computing, HND Computing at University of Northampton
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
styles8
pattern7
planning7
internet-explorer6
sorting6
php6
mod-rewrite6
htaccess6
jquery6
regex6
multidimensional-arrays6
react5
css5
permanent4
vscode-extension1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Planning-Inspectorate/householder-appeal-prototype
Apr 2021 - Nov 2021
Prototype for appealing a HAS planning application decision
Contributions:344 PRs, 374 pushes, 83 branches in 7 months
planningprototypedecision
LBHackney-IT/prototype-mmh
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:34 PRs, 40 pushes, 4 branches in 1 month
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