I'm Josh Payton, amulti-disciplinary digital designer living and working in London.
Over the last 14 years I’ve been fortunate to work on a lot of cool projects with some really smart people including Eurosport, Lowe’s, Four Seasons, Royal Caribbean, American Express, JetBlue and many more. Please get in touch if you’d like to see examples of my work.
EXPERIENCE
Huge
User Experience Director (2010 – ... , London)
I currently head the User Experience department at Huge's London office where my team is heavily focused on a collaborative, product-oriented design approach that allows us to quickly ideate, prototype, test and validate the work we do with clients across North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
Previously I worked in Huge’s Brooklyn and Los Angeles offices managing teams, running complex, large-scale client engagements, winning new business, designing UI, and building prototypes, among other things.
Amazon
User Experience Designer (2008 – 2010, Seattle)
My primary role was to manage the overall user experience of Amazon’s homepage and storefront pages across all markets. Responsibilities included product road mapping, design, qualitative and quantitative testing, feature optimization, ownership of merchandising guidelines, stakeholder management etc.
I also contributed to many other customer facing initiatives such as personalization, cross-sell/up-sell, wish lists, and subscribe-and-save.
Internal projects I worked on include the definition of site-wide UX patterns and visual design systems, as well as the front-end css framework and performance optimization efforts.
Yahoo!
Senior Visual Designer (2005 – 2007, Los Angeles)
As part of the Yahoo! Media Group UX design team I led visual design efforts for the News and Information group. Most notably I redesigned news.yahoo.com and shipped 9 Yahoo! News sub-brand sites, including 60 Minutes, Yahoo! Weather and a collection of series-based original content features.
Washington Post / Newsweek Interactive
Senior Interactive Designer (2005, New York)
Steered the long-term and ran the day-to-day for design at Slate Magazine. Art direction, interaction design, web development, commissioning illustrations, website production, video and audio production, you name it.
Microsoft
Senior Interactive Designer (2000 – 2004, Seattle)
Slate was originally owned by Microsoft, where I filled essentially the same role, except it included wider support for MSN and MSNBC. Slate was a small property which was used as an incubator for broader activities, allowing me to work on everything from MSN UI standards to the CMS MSNBC was running on.