# Nicky Hope

> Human Interface Designer at Apple

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/nickyhope

www.nickyhope.com Mission-driven UI and graphic designer from Northumberland. Led high profile and award winning design projects in the automotive, consumer technology and aerospace industries in the US and UK. Created highly practical, emotive and intuitive user interfaces for complex systems in sports cars, luxury SUVs, aircraft cockpits and spacecraft.

## Work Experience
### Human Interface Designer, Apple Design Team @ Apple
Jan 2023 – Present | Cupertino, California, United States
The Human Interface team conceptualizes, designs and ships the user experience for Apple products and services.

### Lead UI Designer @ Lucid Motors
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | Newark, California, United States
- Defined and designed features for safety critical and highly regulated automotive systems e.g. vehicle controls 
- Led art direction, production design and Design System across all Lucid UI
- Led UI/UX design for Air Sapphire, the world’s quickest 4-door car 
- Led UI visual design for pre-production Gravity (winner of if Design Gold Award 2024)
- Led in-car UI visual design for production Lucid Air, 2022 Car of The Year 
- Special projects and advanced design
- Originator of features such as Detox and Sanctuary

Worked directly under the SVP of Design to define UI visual design for the production variant of Lucid Air. 

Transformed UX wireframes into production-ready UI and development specs for almost
every feature in the system. Worked 1-1 with developers to take the features through to final production software. 

It was my job to translate the brand, interior and CMF design strategy of Lucid into functional, safe, beautiful interfaces.

### Interface Designer @ Jaguar Land Rover
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Gaydon, England, United Kingdom
Worked in the heart of the Land Rover design studio during its modernist design transformation, creating next-generation and far future in-car UI design for 2019-2024 Jaguar and Land Rover models.

Production UI delivery for the next-generation infotainment system which debuted on the 2020 Land Rover Defender (Pivi Pro). Shipped UI for the Welcome Screen, hardware controls such as Ambient Lighting, off road features such as Ride Height and Side Steps, and advanced climate features such as Vent Controls. The award winning Pivi Pro was lauded as a huge improvement over JLR's previous system and has since expanded across the JLR car line, including the Jaguar F-PACE, New Range Rover and Range Rover Sport.


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in (Hons) Graphic Design
Leeds Arts University

### Summer School in International Relations and National Security
Durham University

### High School in A Level, Graphic Communication/Government and Politics/English Literature
The King Edward VI Academy, Morpeth


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nickyhope
- Portfolio: https://www.nickyhope.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-13