I'm James Russell

I'm a designer, dancer, runner, cyclist, photographer and entirely lapsed blogger.

I specialise in user experience, interaction design and product strategy and am passionate about beautiful, usable, ethical and delightful interfaces and the bigger picture: how can we help people to achieve their goals with our products?

I love design, technology, science, subculture and videogames.

Starting as a consultant at Accenture, I helped AOL Europe move from their walled garden business model to a curated blog and advertising model.

During the next 4 years at AKQA, I came to prefer helping clients and customers solve their problems directly and became a designer full time.

I then moved somewhere I could get my teeth into substantial product design work on a variety of platforms: blinkbox.

Going freelance, I helped thetrainline completely re-vamp their iOS and Android apps, designed 3D creation for everyone in Paint 3D at Microsoft and delved into data science at FarePilot, a start up helping Uber drivers work smarter.

I’m now back at Microsoft full-time, working on Search, Assistance and Intelligence products.

LinkedIn: UXJames

I have a very common name. 
So you can find me as kazaroth everywhere...

mastodon.social: @kazaroth
instagram: kazaroth
X (…I guess): @kazaroth

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