Stakeholders and clients
Absolute star
Becky is an absolute star and a brilliant ambassador. I came away from our work with a fresh design and a bunch of useful new skills.
— Customer Insight Manager
Adds value
Becky is great at explaining how things work and at ironing out issues. She has a real creative eye and a drive to add value.
— Project Manager
Can-do attitude
Working with Becky was a pleasure due to her efficiency, approachable nature and can-do attitude.
— Marketing Manager
Professional
Becky’s level of professionalism and commitment to her craft is high, always pushing for an appropriate user-focused solution but with one eye on practicality and a calm capacity to manage sometimes conflicting input and steers from a wide variety of stakeholders.
— Executive Product Manager
Joy to work with
Becky has such a great collaborative style. Some UX folks get caught up in waffle, or sucked into creative processes that aren’t fit for purpose, but I didn’t experience that with Becky at all. A joy to work with.
— Editor
Fierce advocate
[Becky is] a fierce advocate for good user experiences, and will very diplomatically speak up for our users in the face of competing priorities, which is much needed.
— Content Designer
Smashed it
Becky smashed it out the park with her straight talking approach and pure creative bent. Loved it. My kind of person.
— Freelance Product Leader
Outcomes-focussed
Becky is always happy to help, with a passion for all things UX and getting the best outcomes.
— Senior Manager of Consumer Insight
Colleagues and peers
Collaborative
It felt like Becky had been a part of the team for a very long time. She has a lot of resilience and patience and is so good at collaborating and communicating with team members.
— Senior Content Designer
Approachable
One of Becky’s best attributes is her friendly and approachable manner. She is supremely kind, easy to talk to and helped me massively by being a person I knew I could ask questions of without judgement.
— User Researcher
Team player
Becky is a team player who’s great at collaborating and helping to find a solution together. She shares her process and is a logical thinker, allowing her to break through some of the ‘noise’ during the initial phases of a brief.
— Senior User Researcher
Creative
Becky is full of great ideas and offers lots of options. She’s really creative and solutions-focused, and I really enjoyed working with her.
— Product Manager
Gold standard
I still consider the work Becky did for us as the gold standard.
— Taxonomy Manager
Takes the initiative
Becky takes the initiative, delivers good solutions and is very professional. I can always rely on her to give honest feedback.
— UI Designer
Pushes the boundaries
Becky is a talented designer who delivers user experiences that push the boundaries whilst constantly keeping technical constraints in mind.
— Technical Lead
Diplomatic
Love working with Becky – she always fights our corner and deals with stakeholders in a firm but diplomatic way. She makes sense of briefs really quickly. She is also on-hand to lend a listening ear to me and the whole squad when we need a quick rant or advice.
— Content Designer
Valuable insights
Becky has extensive experience as a UX Design Leader and provided valuable insights to my podcast which I’m confident listeners would take a lot from, as I certainly did.
— Recruitment Consultant
Managers
Cheerleader
Becky has a positive attitude and gets good feedback from the team in terms of being a cheerleader for them, providing pastoral support is a good skill and great for managing team health.
— Senior Product Designer
Visibility
Mentions of UX have increased by many hundred percent [since Becky joined our team] 👏
— Senior Marketing Manager
Got stuck in
Becky immediately got stuck into her first client project, proving design can support awareness and understanding of the benefits of user-centred design whilst gradually taking the client on a journey of discovery.
— Head of Design
Reports
Mentor
I’ve been able to balance project work with internal initiatives that benefit our teams. I also avoided burnout by practicing setting appropriate boundaries between project work, other work and personal life – thank you Becky for the mentoring on this!
— Senior UX Designer (direct report)
Comfortable
Becky felt so comfortable to be around ever since she joined and I’ve always felt like I could speak to her about anything!
— UX Designer (indirect report)
Guidance
Her guidance has helped me time and time again and I’m very grateful to have her support, no matter what I’m going through!
— Senior UX Designer (direct report)
Supportive
A supportive and super friendly manager from the off… kindly introduced everyone to me with pronouns and all… everyone in the team has respected those since.
— Senior UX Designer (direct report)