Our Team

The Makemedia team is comprised of highly talented individuals, who work effectively as a team for the benefit of our clients. As an agency we value talent and communication very highly as we believe that these traits are inherent, where as skills can be learnt.

Patrick Sansom - UX Designer

Photograph of Patrick Sansom, User Experience Designer at Makemedia

“I’m a User Experience (UX) Designer. But to be precise, I design for a user’s experience, attempting to make it as good as I can. I don’t presume to be able to completely define what a person’s experience will be. ”

Where did you come from?

Originally from Devon, I lived in London for a long time and have travelled the world extensively before moving to Brighton a few years ago. I recently completed an MSc in User Experience Design at Brighton University, getting a distinction grade. Before that I worked at the BBC for many years.

What can you do?

Devise products and services with the user’s perception as the paramount concern. They should be useful, usable, intuitable, satisfying and maybe even enjoyable and delightful. User experience design considers not just the issues a user may articulate, but also attempts to anticipate them.

What do you do?

User experience design is an umbrella-term that can encompass a variety of disciplines, such as: user research; business analysis; design strategy; content strategy; accessibility; ergonomics; cognitive psychology; information architecture; interaction design; interface design; usability testing; and visual design.

Day-to-day I might practice or reference any one of those fields. Clearly however, it is too much for one person to do alone. To implement effective user experience design requires everyone on a project to be involved. Makemedia consider designing for a user’s experience to be the responsibility of the whole company. Therefore I’ll often act as a UX facilitator, a liaison across the team, the user advocate and proselytiser of various UX techniques.

What do you like?

I am an active member of the UX community attending events like UX Brighton, UX London, NNg conference, dConstruct, and Agile-UX meet-ups. I am also involved with organising UX Camp Brighton and Design Jam Brighton. When not reading UX blogs and books, I like to walk and cycle in the countryside, speak broken-Spanish, listen to my 7-inch reggae and dancehall records and weep over the state of Plymouth Argyle football club.

Patrick's blog posts:
What is the future for Web Intents?
Improving user experience at Design Push 2012
Openness and learning at UX events
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