Who we are
Hello, we are Nexer Digital.
We work in partnership with our clients to design services and digital products that help people to live and work better.
Based in Macclesfield and Cambridge, we benefit from being part of the Nexer Group – a 4,000-strong company head-quartered in Sweden with 13 office locations around the world.
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Our People
Since 2007, our team has built a reputation for excellence in human-centred user experience, strategy, design, and development. We are more than 40 researchers, designers, developers, technical specialists, and project managers who are based in our offices in Macclesfield and Cambridge and at client sites across the UK.

Lisa Matthews
Content Designer

Lisa Matthews
Content Designer
Lisa is a dyslexic content designer with a background in business information and publishing. An established UK Creative Writing scholar, she has published/co-authored nearly a dozen books. Lisa is passionate about the potential of words, language and poetics in human-centred design.

Harry Stanyer
Software Developer

Harry Stanyer
Software Developer
As part of the development team, Harry works to build and deliver solutions to a wide variety of clients.

Ani Gilmore
User Researcher

Ani Gilmore
User Researcher
Ani is a problem solver driven by her passion for inclusive design. She enjoys working within the UX team to conduct successful usability studies and propose innovative solutions.

Mel Ashby
Front End Developer

Mel Ashby
Front End Developer
Mel is a Front Ender, designing and engineering for web. Once a magazine editor, she reincarnated as a designer, progressively learning development tools. She loves to make useable, enjoyable web applications.

Claudia Escorcia
UX Designer

Claudia Escorcia
UX Designer
Claudia uses her background in design to create innovative and inclusive concepts. Her experience in IT training allows her to think critically and understand the needs of users. Although she enjoys working with a plan, she’s not afraid of learning on the fly.

Andrew Rickards
Data and Optimisation Consultant

Andrew Rickards
Data and Optimisation Consultant
Andrew is part of our data and optimisation team. With over 20 years experience working in digital, he works closely with clients to improve their solutions, through assorted SEO, tracking, measurement, optimisation strategies and frameworks. Working closely with our DevOps, experience and research teams, ensuring that solutions are secure, accessible and optimised for their target audience.

Ben Holden
Design Lead

Ben Holden
Design Lead
Ben designs accessible products and services. He likes to find that sweet spot in between meeting business goals and user needs.

Catarina Nyberg
Research Team Lead

Catarina Nyberg
Research Team Lead
Catarina's background is in behavioural science, with a PhD in Social Psychology. Working in Nexer's UX team, Catarina brings both reflective and creative approaches to analysing and solving problems.

Chris Bush
Head of Design

Chris Bush
Head of Design
Chris heads up our Research, UX & Content Design teams; he's particularly passionate about digital inclusion, accessibility and designing experiences that consider everyone. Sharing photos of the good, the bad, and the ugly, in terms of design and usability, is also a favourite pastime.

Danny Lancaster
Test Analyst

Danny Lancaster
Test Analyst
Danny works within Nexer's test team, ensuring that all mobile and website products are tested thoroughly. With a keen interest in accessibility, Danny continues to develop our internal processes and testing approaches.

Dave Brislane
Head of Development & Operations

Dave Brislane
Head of Development & Operations
Dave manages Nexer's development, testing and service teams and is actively involved in shaping and delivery development projects. His department is also affectionately known as DaveOps.

Elizabeth Buie
Senior UX Consultant

Elizabeth Buie
Senior UX Consultant
Elizabeth has over 30 years of UX experience consulting on projects ranging from public websites to touchscreen apps or indeed, the International Space Station. She loves a good discussion of defining what experience is.

Francesca Pearson
Project Manager

Francesca Pearson
Project Manager
Francesca manages a variety of projects across Nexer's client base. She works closely with our account and finance managers to ensure projects are smoothly run, with maximum impact.

Francis Rowland
Senior UX Architect

Francis Rowland
Senior UX Architect
Francis leads Nexer's Cambridge team & likes to collaborate on projects, particularly where he can make complex topics clearer for the people who need to understand or act on them. He's often spotted sketchnoting his way through meetings.

Harley Callaghan
Apprentice Test Analyst

Harley Callaghan
Apprentice Test Analyst
Harley tests everything, from accessibility to mobile apps to picking up work on small projects. He's constantly learning new things and is currently working through a software testing apprenticeship whilst working at Nexer.

Hilary Stephenson
Managing Director

Hilary Stephenson
Managing Director
Hilary manages everything at Nexer. She loves generating ideas, solving problems and helping people try to find a way forward, be they colleague, client or supplier.

Jebastin Jeyaraj
Web Developer

Jebastin Jeyaraj
Web Developer

Jenny Featherston
User Researcher

Jenny Featherston
User Researcher
Jenny has over 20 years’ experience of delivering successful software and digital assessment solutions in the educational sector. She's a passionate advocate for keeping users at the forefront of product design.

Justin Darley
Content Design Team Lead

Justin Darley
Content Design Team Lead
Justin manages the Nexer UX content design team. He leads and actively participates in user interviews, stakeholder, content and co-design workshops.

Kath Rickards
Project Manager

Kath Rickards
Project Manager
Kath is part of our Project Management group. She works across our research, design and development projects, coordinating the activities for the team and our clients to ensure projects stay on track.

Lou Shackleton
Business Designer

Lou Shackleton
Business Designer
Lou works with our design and research team, using tools and frameworks, to combine findings on the user needs and business goals of a client's product or service. Lou is based in Cambridge and often found admiring Venn diagrams.

Molly Watt
Usability & Accessibility Consultant

Molly Watt
Usability & Accessibility Consultant
Molly specialises in assistive technology and designing for those with a sensory impairment. Together with Nexer's Head of Experience Design, Molly delivers accessibility training across private, not-for-profit and public sector organisations. She loves seeing the impact of changed perspectives from her work, when it comes to digital inclusion.

Rachel Breeze
Senior Developer

Rachel Breeze
Senior Developer
As part of the development team, Rachel is continuously shaping solutions and looking at ways to improve the CMS editor's experience of creating and publishing content.

Rick Read
Senior Software Developer

Rick Read
Senior Software Developer
Working within the development team, Rick builds and delivers digital solutions across a variety of our clients.

Ross Jamieson
Test Lead

Ross Jamieson
Test Lead
Ross heads up our test team. Whether it's manual, automation or accessibility testing, he oversees and quality checks all of Nexer's products & services.

Sarah Crickmore-Clarke
Delivery Manager

Sarah Crickmore-Clarke
Delivery Manager
Sarah leads our Project Management team, ensuring we deliver high quality projects, with impact. She focuses on project lifecycles and is always looking at how to do work, better. An afternoon spent planning in Microsoft Project is her kind of relaxation.

Sami MJ
Web Developer

Sami MJ
Web Developer

Shane Prendergast
Front End Team Lead

Shane Prendergast
Front End Team Lead
Shane is responsible for our Front End Development team. He builds websites and apps that are accessible to all and look as good on screen as they do in the designs. He likes to comfort JS bugs by consoling them.

Shaun Gomm
Commercial Director

Shaun Gomm
Commercial Director
Shaun oversees Nexer's sales and marketing strategy, whilst also managing a handful of our valued clients. He runs and hosts our annual conference, Camp Digital and enjoys bringing the latest issues in digital, design & UX to the fore.

Simon Wissink
Data and Optimisation Lead

Simon Wissink
Data and Optimisation Lead
Simon helps shape and deliver Nexer’s data and optimisation services, working closely with clients from defining their strategy and tools, to tracking, measuring and improving the performance of their products or services. With over 16 years of experience in digital, he has worked with clients across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.

Steve O'Connor
Design Lead

Steve O'Connor
Design Lead
Steve's focus is on visual, content, and interaction design. He enjoys wrestling complex problems and user interfaces into submission, whilst creating something that looks, sounds, and feels great. Branding adds another string to his bow. Treats coffee as a major food group.

Tracy Marshall
User Experience Designer

Tracy Marshall
User Experience Designer
Tracy likes to advocate for the end user. She enjoys bridging gap between the development team, key stakeholders and the users, and using her insight to add value between these ways of thinking.

Amy Czuba
Senior Account Manager

Amy Czuba
Senior Account Manager
Amy is focussed on helping clients build and execute their digital and design strategies, with a human-centred focus. Amy is passionate about adding value at every opportunity, with proven experience partnering with organisations operating in the third sector. Amy looks after a number of Nexer's clients, as well as being active in the business development space, looking for opportunities where Nexer can deliver meaningful social impact.

Amy Thornley
Senior Designer

Amy Thornley
Senior Designer
Amy is a Designer at Nexer; she likes getting to grips with knotty problems and finding opportunities to make real impact. She enjoys working collaboratively to find informed and inclusive design solutions.

Danielle Stone
Senior Designer

Danielle Stone
Senior Designer
Danielle has over 15 years experience in the design industry and has developed a passion for human-centred approaches: helping to design better digital experiences and better services for fellow humans.

William Caston Cook
Content Designer

William Caston Cook
Content Designer
William is a content designer with over a decade of editorial and writing experience. He enjoys breaking complex problems into tiny pieces and fixing them together again with words. He’s not very comfortable writing in the third person.

Tom Clowes
IT Support & Service Desk Analyst

Tom Clowes
IT Support & Service Desk Analyst
Tom has come from an IT and Infrastructure background, and is now enjoying a more client focused role here at Nexer.

Sofiya Kryuchkova
Apprentice Front End Developer

Sofiya Kryuchkova
Apprentice Front End Developer
Sofiya is an Apprentice Front End Developer, currently working through the Manchester Digital Software Developer apprentice scheme. Sofiya is building her programming skills, focusing on HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React and some basic Java. Since she started to learn coding, Sofiya became really interested in UX research and UI design, so Nexer is great place to learn more.
Associates

Michael Adeyemi
Business Analyst and Product Manager

Michael Adeyemi
Business Analyst and Product Manager
Michael is an experienced, dedicated Business Analyst and Product Manager. Most recently, Michael has been working with Nexer at the Department of Education in a senior BA role as part of a multi-disciplinary agile team.

Greg Knight
Content Designer

Greg Knight
Content Designer
Greg is an experienced content designer and has worked on a wide range of content projects in the private and public sectors. He loves listening to users and producing content that addresses their needs. He has a proven track record of taking long complex content and making it accessible to everybody.

Grace Boboye
Senior Business Analyst

Grace Boboye
Senior Business Analyst
Grace is an experienced Business Analyst with a demonstrable track record of success in facilitating transformational IT change. Expert at discovering business requirements and aligning solutions with stakeholders’ needs, Grace is an excellent team player, with outstanding communication skills and the ability to interact effectively with people across different functions and organisational levels.

Fritz von Runte
Product and Service Designer

Fritz von Runte
Product and Service Designer
Fritz is a highly experienced Product and Service Designer with a focus on lean methods of working, multi-disciplinary development and user-driven solutions. He has over 20 years of experience in digital and a soft spot for the public sector. Fritz likes working in the open, being part of a team and starting with pen and paper.

Caroline McKillop
Senior Project Manager

Caroline McKillop
Senior Project Manager
Caroline has extensive experience of programme, project, and budget and risk management. She works with an excellent collaborative style in supporting effective business engagement and with a clear focus on delivery.

Harry Bailey

Harry Bailey
Harry helps to foster tech teams and the humans who help form and fuel them. Creating better outcomes, more value, happier humans and solid autonomous teams.

Kim Farrell
Creative Brand and Digital Designer

Kim Farrell
Creative Brand and Digital Designer
Off Grid are a creative partner collaborating with the Nexer teams across a range of projects. They bring their expertise in creative digital design and UX to transform an idea or wireframe into a visually exciting and engaging product.

Sally Evans
Creative Brand and Digital Designer

Sally Evans
Creative Brand and Digital Designer
Off Grid are a creative partner collaborating with the Nexer teams across a range of projects. They bring their expertise in creative digital design and UX to transform an idea or wireframe into a visually exciting and engaging product.

Working at Nexer Digital
We love to help people, through our work, to be healthier and happier, and to make a positive impact on society. Flexible working is one of our core values and a good work-life balance is what we aim for, always.
We are inclusive, supportive and our team is full of people who like to spend their time making things – digital or otherwise – that work better for everyone.


How we contribute to our community
Nexer is always keen to measure the social impact of our work, support emerging talent and share some of our thinking and experience to help people. Our team has supported many community initiatives in recent years.
We helped to establish UX Mentors with MMU and NUX, we co-organised the Manchester Homeless Hack, we continue to support Manchester Digital's Teach Too and Digital Futures programmes, and we regularly run student design days to coincide with International Women’s Day and World Usability Day.
We’re also very proud to be the digital partner of Diversity Role Models, a UK charity tackling homophobic, biphobic, and transphobic bullying in schools.
Camp Digital
Camp Digital is an inspirational conference that brings together the digital, design and UX communities for a series of talks and workshops exploring the latest thinking in our industry.
More about Camp Digital
Get in touch
If you would like to work with our team on your project, email us at hello@nexerdigital.com or call one of our offices: Macclesfield on +44 (0)1625 427718, or Cambridge on +44 (0)1223 626629