Hey, I’m Rick Edmondson,

I'm currently a freelance Product Designer looking for a new opportunity to bring your product to life. For almost ten years, I've helped synthesise complex problems into simple solutions across digital consumer products to SaaS platforms. With my background in graphic design and my technical approach I understand and work closely with engineers to provide fast, efficient and reliable products.

Experience

Employment History

Freelance Product Designer

Remote

Designed end-to-end UX for complex QSR and Hotel SaaS products, working closely with product and engineering to deliver accessible, scalable, and responsive experiences.

Arctic Shores

Manchester, UK

Senior UX Manager

2021–2024

Responsible for a UX team and strategy for SaaS HR recruitment software and candidate facing psychometric assessments. Leading and mentoring a cross functional team in innovative design and best practices.

Helped move the company from bespoke to self-serve, improving customer confidence and reducing internal cost and delivery time.

Designed key product features across multiple user needs, from market-leading cognitive assessment tasks to admin tools, achieving 80% uptake over legacy features.

Conducted multi-method UX research and testing (interviews, surveys, AB testing...), providing regular feedback to uncover user needs and pain points.

Presented findings and iterated designs with stakeholders across the business to ensure transparency and alignment.

Led core tool improvements and feedback loops, increasing candidate and customer approval ratings from 3 to 4 out of 5.

Contributed to generative AI use cases, providing clear direction on tool integration to support self-serve experiences.

Collaborated cross-functionally with PMs, designers, and engineers to define and implement a scalable design system maintained in Figma.§

Helped move the company from bespoke to self-serve, improving customer confidence and reducing internal cost and delivery time.

Designed key product features across multiple user needs, from market-leading cognitive assessment tasks to admin tools, achieving 80% uptake over legacy features.

Conducted multi-method UX research and testing (interviews, surveys, AB testing...), providing regular feedback to uncover user needs and pain points.

Presented findings and iterated designs with stakeholders across the business to ensure transparency and alignment.

Led core tool improvements and feedback loops, increasing candidate and customer approval ratings from 3 to 4 out of 5.

Contributed to generative AI use cases, providing clear direction on tool integration to support self-serve experiences.

Collaborated cross-functionally with PMs, designers, and engineers to define and implement a scalable design system maintained in Figma.§

Music Tribe

Manchester, UK

Senior UX/UI Designer

2016–2021

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Contributed to delivering cutting-edge professional audio technology including the HD-96 Mixing Desk which achieved $20million presale.

Led global and local UI/UX teams, setting category vision, skills frameworks, and shared standards used across the company.

Built strong relationships with distributed teams to enable effective communication, delivery, and design quality.

Took on people management responsibilities, including workload allocation, mentoring, feedback, and performance support.

Partnered closely with product management on UX ideation, innovation, and defining product visual identity.

Created and maintained scalable design systems, libraries, and guidelines, iterating continuously using Sketch, Abstract, Lean UX, and Agile practices.

Supported developers by writing bespoke XML, HTML & CSS maintained in git to ensure designs were rapidly available and pixel perfect.

Tested and iterated amongst customers and SME in the professional audio sphere, testing rapid prototypes and feeding back into final designs

Music Tribe

Manchester, UK

Senior UX/UI Designer

2016–2021

DESCRIPTION TO ADD HERE

Full description

Contributed to delivering cutting-edge professional audio technology including the HD-96 Mixing Desk which achieved $20million presale.

Led global and local UI/UX teams, setting category vision, skills frameworks, and shared standards used across the company.

Built strong relationships with distributed teams to enable effective communication, delivery, and design quality.

Took on people management responsibilities, including workload allocation, mentoring, feedback, and performance support.

Partnered closely with product management on UX ideation, innovation, and defining product visual identity.

Created and maintained scalable design systems, libraries, and guidelines, iterating continuously using Sketch, Abstract, Lean UX, and Agile practices.

Supported developers by writing bespoke XML, HTML & CSS maintained in git to ensure designs were rapidly available and pixel perfect.

Tested and iterated amongst customers and SME in the professional audio sphere, testing rapid prototypes and feeding back into final designs

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