Barry Stewart

Senior User Experience Designer @SD Worx

Glasgow, GB

Revamped the UX for an award-winning international payroll and workforce management SaaS platform, optimizing workflows and increasing task completion rate by 14% through user research and iterative testing.• Developed comprehensive journey maps and information architecture to seamlessly unify multiple products into a cohesive, user-centered experience, reducing friction and enhancing usability.• Designed and deployed a scalable, brand-aligned design system, ensuring WCAG compliance and streamlining cross-team collaboration with standardized UI components.• Enhanced agile, interactive prototypes using Figma and Axure, reducing design-to-development handoff time by 22% and improving efficiency in journey-centric workflows.• Integrated Google analytics to track and research time-on-task efficiency and reduce attrition.• Led remote usability testing and focus groups, gathering insights that informed iterative improvements in mobile UX, enhancing accessibility and engagement.• Established and led a UX Excellence Taskforce, defining best practices and governance models that elevated UX standards across the organization.