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Portfolio // James Bailey

After 15+ years I've worked across a variety of verticals, B2B, B2C, and design challenges

The following are some of the clients I've had the privilege to work with. Helping to win and shape work, lead teams, and getting hands-on to deliver design value.

Case studies

'Uber of helicopters’ service that takes you door-to-door

'Uber of helicopters’ service that takes you door-to-door

'Uber of helicopters’ service that takes you door-to-door

"How do we leverage our B2B assets to create a new B2C proposition and business that will lead the market?"

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Renewable energy venture piloted in 100k UK homes

'Uber of helicopters’ service that takes you door-to-door

'Uber of helicopters’ service that takes you door-to-door

"How do we turn a tech hypothesis into a fully realised product and service offering that
we can pilot in 100k UK homes?"

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Designing the UK's first virtual fertility clinic

New wealth management and financial planning proposition

New wealth management and financial planning proposition

"How do we de-risk our venture and make sure that we’re offering a service that customers want and investors will back?"

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New wealth management and financial planning proposition

New wealth management and financial planning proposition

New wealth management and financial planning proposition

"How do we leverage our existing assets to offer a wealth management and financial planning service?"

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Other Clients // WON and WORKED ON

Tackling Type 2 diabetes through data and behavioural change


Health & Wellbeing 

counterweight.org 

New name, identity, and vision for Apple’s global reseller platform


Consumer Goods 

apple.com

Inventing and launching new mass-market food products


Consumer Goods

heinztohome.co.uk

Research insights and holistic digital transformation for a bank


Financial Services

cynergybank.co.uk

Service design masterclasses at SDN / iXDA global conferences


Design coaching

service-design-network.org, ixda.org

User research and product design for TV and online experiences


Media & Entertainment

channel4.com

User research and product design to strengthen account journeys


Energy & Utilities

edfenergy.com

User research and product design to strengthen flight booking journeys


Travel & Hospitality

easyjet.com

Transforming old ways of working through grass roots initiatives


Financial Services 

mandg.com

Contact me for full details

“If anyone needs help researching, testing, ideating, and generally running the design process most excellently – let me introduce and thoroughly recommend James.”


Head of Product FinTech and Ex-Partner BCG Digital Ventures

Let's work together // directly or a contract

I can shape work with you directly, or fulfil an open contract, typically delivering:

  • Research insights from internal, external, competitor, market perspectives
  • Strategic direction for products, services, and business models
  • Service design from the macro experience down to micro touchpoints
  • Product consultancy for features, journeys, prototypes, UX, UI, IA, usability
  • Workshops to generate ideas and content, make decisions, build alignment
  • User research to test assumptions, refine and validate designs, de-risk change
  • Stakeholder management to build strong relationships and gain buy-in
  • Leadership and hands-on design within multi-disciplinary teams to deliver
  • Coaching and mentoring to up-skill team design capabilities
  • Sales support to strengthen growth strategies and scale the business

Let's chat

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