# Lynden Oliver

> Lead Product Designer at Ember

Location: Greater Leeds Area, United Kingdom
Profile: https://flows.cv/lynden

An experienced Product Designer striving to reduce complexity while increasing value for users and the business.

Working closely with multi-disciplined teams in fast-paced environments. My focus is on outcomes - choosing the best methods to achieve the desired results.

## Work Experience
### Lead Product Designer @ Ember
Jan 2022 – Present

### Senior Product Designer @ Festicket
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Leeds, England, United Kingdom

### Co Founder @ Yorkshire Digital
Jan 2013 – Jan 2020 | Yorkshire
A hub for the growing digital community in Yorkshire, where individuals, organisations and user groups of all skill sets can easily see what's going on, find new connections and share knowledge.

As one third of Yorkshire Digital I am responsible for the design and branding. This includes design for our online platform, brand identity and planning the direction of the business.

If you run a meetup in Yorkshire and would like to get involved let us know.

www.yorkshiredigital.com

### Senior UX/UI Designer @ Ticket Arena
Jan 2014 – Jan 2019 | Leeds
Working within the technology team in an agile environment, across the range of existing and greenfield Ticket Arena and Event Genius websites, web applications and mobile apps. 

- Working with product owners and key business stakeholders to identify feature requirements
- Creating design concepts
- Rapid prototyping, from low fidelity sketches to interactive user journeys
- Creating and maintaining design systems used across our products (visual concept level assets and React component library)
- Implementing designs into production with HTML/CSS (Sass)/Javascript (React)
- Branding design - digital & print

### Senior UI Designer @ Blacklight Software
Jan 2009 – Jan 2014
Leading the design team, responsible for the strategy and implementation of UI & UX design on projects.

Working with clients across a range of industries to deliver web apps, websites and native iOS and Windows Store apps.

- Requirements gathering with project stakeholders
- Identifying information heirarrchy
- Defining design strategy
- Building and testing Low/Med/High fidelity prototypes
- Creating and presenting design concepts
- Coding front end designs and collaborating with development team to produce final deliverables 
- Delivering training sessions
- Mentoring designers and championing design within the business

### Designer @ Northwave Software
Jan 2008 – Jan 2009

### Web & Graphic Designer @ York Fitness UK
Jan 2006 – Jan 2008


## Education
### Multimedia Systems
Leeds Beckett University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/lynden-oliver-9a199134

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Source: https://flows.cv/lynden
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/lynden/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-31