Giles Rollestone

Publications

Interactive Media & Writing - Articles | Book Chapters | Papers | Practice-based Design Research

  • Design Leadership

    FOUNDER

    It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.

  • User Research

    DESIGN DIRECTOR

    It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.

  • Experience & Product Design Strategy

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  • Experience & Product Design

    SUSTAINABILITY DIRECTOR

    It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.

  • Design Thinking for Transformation

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  • Design & Leadership Coach

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I help build & scale exceptional customer experiences.

Giles Rollestone
Chief Experience Design Advisor. Partner, Co-founder. Creative Business & Product Leader. Coach & Mentor.

  • Design Leadership

    FOUNDER

    It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.

  • User Research

    DESIGN DIRECTOR

    It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.

  • Experience & Product Design Strategy

    Description goes here
  • Experience & Product Design

    SUSTAINABILITY DIRECTOR

    It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.

  • Design Thinking for Transformation

    Description goes here
  • Design & Leadership Coach

    Description goes here

Digital Product Design & Innovation Leadership Solutions 

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Recognition.

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Transforming the Experience.
Transforming the Team.
Transforming the Organisation.
Transforming the Business.

Fractional UX and product innovation leadership for start-ups and growing brands

Strategic guidance and hands-on UX research, design and product innovation expertise.

Previously worked for

I work with start-ups, founders, leaders, boards and growing brands to help unlock value and accelerate growth

Go from an initial idea or a lack of traction and product/market fit to a business and customer experience transformation.

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About

Hi, I’m Giles!



I help start-ups, scale-ups and growing brands get consistent traction and outstanding customer engagement by ensuring their digital products and user experiences not only exceed expectations but generates new opportunities for innovation and growth.

I have vast expertise across the entire tech, product innovation, strategy, research, design and execution lifecycle, revolutionising customer satisfaction, engagement and revenue.

With a portfolio featuring 35+ brands and 250+ digital products and services designed and delivered from idea, strategy to launch across multiple industry sectors, success has often been attributed to the quality of the customer experience I’ve helped to deliver. These experiences are unique, curated, dynamic, people-centred and at the same time scalable and repeatable. They’re about making the art of the possible real and transformative.

As products and experiences increasingly become commoditised, customer experience is the only true differentiator and source of competitive advantage. If digital products and experiences are not aligned to customer needs/desires and business goals any company or organisation (small or large) will struggle going forward.

If you’re struggling to get consistent traction or your customers aren’t engaging with your product and service as expected, or if you’re building a new zero-to-one product or platform and need to get it right, you’re in the right place.

By unlocking product growth with my state-of-the-art UX insights and delivering products aligned to market and user needs with a creative X factor, you can skip struggling with traction and product/market fit challenges and realise your vision and goals and kick-off a business transformation!

Getting started is easy. Book a complimentary 30-minute strategy session designed to maximise the value and insight you gain from our time together or complete the easy to use project enquiry form.

Who is this for?
Start-ups, scale-ups, corporate enterprise, global brands, CEO’s, C-suite, boards, leaders, and emerging practitioners.

My services include
Conducting UX design, information architecture and product health checks and assessments.

Product market-fit partnership to help build and launch scalable products and services in days aligned to customer and market opportunities.

Transformation and restructuring of teams (design, product, innovation), operational structures, governance frameworks and customer engagement workflows.

Coaching and mentoring individuals and teams to improve processes, working practices and support career growth.

How does it work?

Engagement models include: 

  • Defined offering (see below)

  • 1 day audit or 1 day strategy

  • One-off project 

  • 1-3 month engagement 

  • Block of X hours  

  • X day(s) per week/month 

  • Your problem area

250+ websites, apps, products designed and delivered from idea, strategy to launch.

14 industry awards in recognition of outstanding work.

$12m revenue achieved from 1 x product alone.

HIGHLIGHTED SERVICE

UX Audit

Unlock product growth with state-of-the-art UX insights.

Transform your product into a user-aligned, seamless user experience with a bespoke expert UX Audit crafted by a highly experienced UX design lead.

I conduct UX design, information architecture and product implementation health checks and assessments to maximise opportunities to accelerate growth.

London, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Tokyo, Porto, New York and Brighton ++

Portfolio

Case studies

Transforming existing products / Creating new platforms and products / Building new teams / Advancing innovation / North star and strategy creation / Getting teams closer to customers / Brand and customer engagement / Customer journey transformation

Client-side / In-house / Design Studio / Digital Agency / Management Consultancy / Systems Integrator / Technology Research Labs.

Industry / Industry / Industry / Industry / Industry / Industry / Industry

Zero-to-one

Building a start-up business and ecosystem from scratch with human-centred design leadership at the fore.

Role: Partner / Cofounder - Chief Experience Officer
Company: Ateaya
More: Coming soon

Scaling innovation & design

Winning business development, strategy and delivery for breakthrough innovation and design projects in the Capital Markets space. 

Role: Head of Design / Innovation & Design Leader in Capital Markets
Company: CAPCO
More: Digital innovation

Unlock UX and product innovation excellence

Getting started is easy. Book a complimentary 30-minute strategy session designed to maximise the value and insight you gain from our time together.

With well over two decades of experience in design and innovation, I’m here to help individuals, teams and organisations find human-centred design opportunities for growth.