Met Office
Weather and climate services
Weather apps
The Met Office is the UK's national weather service, providing forecasts, warnings, and climate data to millions of users.
Worked in a senior role within a development team responsible for prototyping and delivering the public website and mobile experiences, using responsive and adaptive UX design alongside front-end development.
Focused on building complex, data-driven interfaces including mapping and visualisations, ensuring performance, accessibility, and usability across devices.
- Role
- UX Designer & UI Developer
- Scope
- Responsive web and mobile platforms · Data visualisation and mapping · Performance and accessibility focused · Millions of weekly users
- Duration
- Jan 2011 - Apr 2014 · 3 yrs 4 mths
- Location
- Exeter
- Regularly held content discussions and demos with stakeholders to ensure the customer's needs were met at all times.
- Managed development tasks and source control via JIRA, Git, SourceTree, and Stash.
- Collaborated with the testing team from automated testing through to user acceptance testing and deployment.
End-to-end
Worked closely with the design and development teams to define key aspects of user stories, ensuring that up-to-date best practices for user experience, usability, and accessibility were applied throughout.
Millions of users
The Met Office website attracted millions of visitors each week.
All work was designed with maintainability, cross-browser and mobile support, performance, SEO, accessibility, and usability in mind.
Every design and development decision considered the end-user experience and technical constraints to ensure a reliable, scalable platform.
