About Kate

Kate Townsend is a designer focused on creating meaningful user experiences and developing successful products. Over the past fourteen years, her career has been marked by a diverse range of projects encompassing both government and commercial clients, which has honed her skills and given her a unique and versatile skillset.

Having worked on numerous projects for government clients, Kate has cultivated an acute sense of attention to detail and adherence to regulations and compliance standards. This is backed up by her studies in Global Privacy Law at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and her MA in Big Data at King's College. Her experience in this sector has refined her ability to tackle complex challenges and equipped her with a deep understanding of efficient and ethical data practice. After her studies in Global Data Privacy Law and Big Data, she has started to focus her academic work into AI regulation and standards.

In the commercial realm, Kate has collaborated with a wide range of clients, ranging from startups to established companies. This exposure has allowed her to adopt a robust yet flexible creative process to suit varying project scopes, budgets, strategies, and timelines, while consistently delivering outstanding results. In addition, her academic pursuits have given her proficiency in research, data analysis, and data visualisation, enabling her to deliver design outputs that resonate with target audiences.

Her expertise extends across multiple industries including cyber security, civic tech, application performance, data management, healthcare, telecoms, and more. This gives Kate a unique ability to create transformative designs that achieve both innovation and practicality for users. She has been fortunate to work with and be mentored by great creative thinkers. Her goal is to continue to work in collaborative environments where she can contribute to the growth of cross-functional teams.

Beyond her professional design work, Kate is also an accomplished painter, stop motion artist, and filmmaker. These creative pursuits inform her approach to digital design, bringing a distinctive visual sensibility and narrative understanding to her professional projects. Her cross-disciplinary artistic practice enables her to approach user experience challenges with unique perspectives and innovative solutions that bridge the gap between technical requirements and compelling visual storytelling.

EXPERIENCE:

• Abnormal Security

• Cloudflare, 🇬🇧 and 🇵🇹

• IG Group

• Pirate Studios

• National Geographic

• Vodafone

• BAE Systems Applied Intelligence

• National Security Organisations (UK)

• The Foreign Office (UK Government)

• The Home Office (UK Government)

• TalkTalk

• Another_Space

• Legalease