About me

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Portfolio - Leo Marti

3 min readNov 24, 2017

I am Leo, founder of Positive.Design and a Design Leader with over 10years’ experience working for renown companies such as the BBC, HSBC and Nike, I love to bring people together to turn complex challenges into simple and delightful solutions. I have experience leading large projects across platforms and disciplines on big customer-facing products such as BBC iPlayer — over 9 million requests a day –, as well as critically important tools, managing, for example, all UK TV advertisements. I have strong communication skills that I use to influence, motivate and help others grow. My approach to design is lean and collaborative.

Broad experience

Throughout my career, I had the chance to work in a broad variety of places across Europe and Asia, from small start-ups as a solo Designer to large organisations with some of the largest European UX teams. This allowed me to gain a lot of experience working across platforms from mobile to TV, and even WAP!

T-shaped Designer

Working in teams and as a solo designer, I developed skills throughout the design process. I am as comfortable running user research sessions as polishing up motion designs or creating interactive prototypes. I have a very collaborative approach and love to involve multidisciplinary groups during workshops to analyse research findings or solve design challenges. The part that passionates me the most is to turn complex problems into simple and delightful human-centred designs, services or strategies, using insights and data.

Strong communication and collaboration skills

Working in large organisations like the BBC — with over 200 Designers — allowed me to get a lot of experience working with multidisciplinary teams, running workshops and practising my influencing skills. As a line manager, I enjoy a lot mentoring other Designers and helping them to set up personal objectives. Lastly, I teach, often give talks, and workshops externally, and lead the BBC Studio Day, a monthly event for the BBC UX&D community as well as the BBC UX&D Film Club.