Damien Coaten is an Accessibility first UI/UX Designer

With a strong foundation in web development, I've spent the last 8 years honing my skills in web and app design. My work is driven by a passion for creating intuitive and visually engaging digital experiences. I take pride in adhering to web accessibility standards, ensuring that my designs are inclusive and user-friendly for everyone. Whether it's a sleek website or a dynamic app, I focus on blending aesthetics with functionality, always keeping the end-user in mind.

Reach More Parents - App

Reach More Parents is a communications platform aimed at bridging the gap between teachers and parents. Through numerous revisions it has arrived at what has been affectionately known as V2, this was the culmination of months of work involving customers and parents to gauge the success of the new design system.

This app is in use in 300+ schools across the UK and Spain and has been custom designed for around 100 different schools - this includes custom branding and colour schemes cross referenced against WCAG's colour contrast guidelines to ensure the best possible experience for its users. (Images are a rough representation)

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Custom App Designer

The system was developed to solve a specific issue with the custom app design process at Weduc.

Prior to the design and development of this system, custom app designs were sent out to the customer in the form of a Powerpoint presentation. At this time, it took on average 8 weeks for a design to be signed off by the customer. So I set about creating a system that would be easier to work with and one that customers could use to tweak designs if they wanted to. The Custom App Designer (CAD) has reduced sign off time to around a week as well as improving the development process as all assets required for an app build can be generated by the system. (Images are a rough representation)

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Reach More Parents - Portal

The Reach More Parents Portal (RMP) is the companion system to the RMP App. This has been created for school staff to manage accounts, interact with teachers and create various types of content including forms, newsfeed posts, homework tasks, calendar items etc.

Much like the RMP App, RMP Portal is deployed in 300+ schools across the UK and Spain and is in a constant state of development. Through targeted questionnaires, one to one and one to many user sessions I ensure every design/system decision is well informed to ensure the success of the latest features. (Images are a rough representation)

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LEX

LEX is a system that contains everything a chambers would require to ensure a legal case is ran as smoothly as possible. Along with the ability to collate a wide range of data the system could also be used inside of a court to record information directly from the hearing.

I contributed to a number of features, mainly focused on displaying large quantities of data in a way that is understandable without compromising on details. Due to the nature of data present on virtually every screen, screenshots for this system cannot be provided.

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LEX Network

LEX Network is an innovative platform designed to help clerks efficiently find barristers at short notice. Drawing from extensive research and user insights, I designed LEX Network to streamline the search process, making it faster and more reliable. My role extended beyond design as I actively contributed to the platform's development, utilizing HTML, CSS, and jQuery to create a seamless and responsive user experience. With LEX Network, clerks can connect with the right barristers quickly and effortlessly, ensuring legal teams have the support they need when time is of the essence.

The state of this project is currently unknown.

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Halsbury Travel CRM

This CRM system was custom build from scratch to fit around the working processes of each department within the company.

Over a 5 year period I contributed to the design and development of this system. Initially built to help keep track of incoming opportunities it wildly expanded when the decision was made to role it out to the whole company enabling us to track everything from sales data to trip information.

During my final year, it became more of a hub for all of Halsbury Travel's systems as we integrated our other custom platforms such as our wesbsite CMS. Screenshots for this project are unavailable due to the nature of the data presented on screen.

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Halsbury Travel's website portfolio

Halsbury Travel had a number of different websites in its line up, Education travel, Sports, Skiing and Work Experience were a few of the more popular products.

While working on the CRM system, it was also my responsibility to keep an eye on their websites updating design, SEO, content and developing new features. Since leaving the company in 2020 their entire portfolio has been updated.

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