UX @ Red Gate

The UX Team

  • Adam P

    An early fascination with fire and giant paper-mache dinosours led, naturally, to a career in UX. It’s no surprise then that Adam’s most memorable experience so far at Red Gate involved building camp fires and throwing axes – at imaginary dinosours. Probably.

  • Adam W

    Adam’s first role at Red Gate was recruiting over 200 participants for usability sessions when no-one had any idea his family was that large. Since then he has campaigned tirelessly for UX in Red Gate. Or more specifically ‘Since then he has campaigned tirelessly for (more beer at) UX (team meetings) in Red Gate.’ He’s also spent the past few years working on SQL Monitor.

  • Andy

    Andy’s early interest in building great products (mainly in Lego) eventually led him to give up his job in confectionery and take a degree in Product Design. Deciding that the design tools were far too hard to use, Andy turned his attention to improving UX of engineering design software, before joining Red Gate in 2012. When he’s not dodging Nerf bullets or searching for strong coffee, Andy helps Red Gate design products for software deployment.

  • Jenny

    Jenny is new to UX design but brings her architectural nous to the team. Since joining Red Gate Jenny has enjoyed getting in bar room brawls and kneeing the groins of her colleagues. She likes the free food here, but is equally happy with an empty jar of Marmite.

  • Jon

    Jon first cut his teeth as a user experience designer in the world of engineering plant design software. Working in this domain he spent many years as a company champion and evangelist for user centred design. This involved doing lots of research, company presentations, hand-waving and devising cunning strategies for introducing change. Occasionally he would find time for some actual design work. Jon joined Red Gate in 2009, keen to seek out new challenges in the fun world of software usability.

  • Meghan

    Meghan is key to our research activities, putting us in direct contact with our users. She does this using the powerful skills of persuasion, enticement, and when they fail, bribery and blackmail. Meghan was recruited to our team because of her knowledge of Old English and poetry. Turns out it’s a lot like swearing. At least that’s all we’ve heard from Meghan so far.

  • Michele

    Michele was set for a career in the arts until she discovered a new-fangled thing called the internet, which turned her into a closet geek. Being a sucker for punishment, she studied an MSc in HCI, whilst working at a local authority developing their web strategy and websites. She helped the Council leapfrog into the 21st century by evangelising about UX and social media, before joining Red Gate in 2011 to work alongside other self-confessed UX obsessives. Having survived a zombie attack on her first day, Michele will be helping to improve the SQL Tools.

  • Pete

    Pete’s first experience with computers was the video game Carnivores, an FPS where you hunt dinosaurs for trophies, so naturally we’ve put him to work alongside fellow dinosaur hunter, Adam P on our .NET applications. He’s not currently a fan of Marmite, but this might change his mind. Alternatively, it might just be further proof ‘that the devil exists’.

  • Revathi

    Revathi enjoys cycling to work. Often she walks home, having forgotten that she cycled here. Since learning that The Godfather was her favourite book, we only have nice things to say about her.

  • Richard

    Richard first encountered technology at the age of 4 when he successfully (and irreversibly) dismantled his father’s brand new radio set. Since then he has broken and bashed his way through Windows, Apple, Linux and various Internet ghettos. After hacking his way through a computer science degree, he decided it might be a good idea to stop breaking stuff and begin designing them instead.

  • Stephen

    Stephen attempted to stay at University studying Psychology and HCI longer than anyone else in history but became overwhelmed by the complexity of the human brain. Escaping into the real world the geek within prevailed and the hankering for working in software design grew. Red Gate beckoned and after conducting usability sessions on projects he soon began designing .NET software. His family don’t understand a single word he says about his work but have learnt to smile and nod politely.