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CV

I’m a curious minded individual who believes her purpose is to serve the needs of others. I have always felt extremely drawn to understanding the needs of others, not just on the surface, but to truly understand where needs, frustrations and beliefs, truly come from. 

I hold a strong passion for delivering inclusive, user centred research solutions, eager to bring my skills and dedication to any project. My approach to user research is grounded in empathy, active listening, and a relentless pursuit of understanding the diverse needs of real people; skills that I have acquired from my volunteer work as an AgeUK telephone friend. With a background in Financial Services, I strive to bridge the gap between user needs and business objectives. Passionate about driving impactful insights and dedicated to making technology more intuitive and accessible for everyone while ensuring my approach aligns to ethical research practices.

Skills

  • User Research: Experienced in planning and conducting various user research methodologies, such as user interviews, moderated/ unmoderated usability testing & surveys. Carefully selecting the most appropriate methodologies by aligning my objectives to determine if the desired outcome is behavioural or attitudinal.
     

  • Advocating for users: Able to communicate through the art of story telling to bring research findings to life. This could be through both qualitative and quantitative data.
     

  • Analysis & Documentation: Proficient in analysing both qualitative & quantitative research to guide design strategies that also lead to iterative developments of products.
     

  • Use of ethical research pillars: Conduct ethical research in all aspects of my work. Using pillars such as transparency, informed consent, privacy, data protection & do no harm.
     

  • Collaboration: Proficient in building strong working relationships both with UCD professionals e.g. Designers, Developers, but also other stakeholders across the business e.g. Marketing, Product & Customer Services to help bridge the gap between business needs and user needs.
     

  • Defining scope: Skilled in defining project scope to align with both user needs and business objectives.
     

  • Workshop Facilitation: Experienced in facilitating collaborative workshops to drive innovation and stakeholder engagement, tailoring my delivery based on the audience involved.
     

  • Journey Mapping & User Flows: Capable of developing detailed customer journey maps and user flows to illustrate user experiences.
     

  • Design Documentation: Capable of producing thorough design documentation to ensure clear communication and consistency throughout the design process.

Experience

User Researcher & Experience Designer 
Legal & General

December 2022 - Present

  • Co-led the planning, execution and analysis of research for a digital Annuity application portal to replace the existing paper process. Which is projected to retain market share and reduce internal costs by £43 million over a 5 year period. As part of this work I also facilitated remote moderated usability tests of first concept designs with Intermediaries, to validate known assumptions. Collaborating with Visual designers to suggest improvements based on research insights.
     

  • Uncovered 7 fundamental usability flaws of a newly implemented virtual assistant chat bot through combining qualitative, quantitative, and behavioural data (triangulation) to better understand poor adoption and plummeting CSAT scores. Which resulted in a P1 incident being raised with funding and resources agreed to implement fixes.
     

  • Supported the Senior User Researcher with planning and facilitating a contextual enquiry to better understand how colleagues were using meeting rooms across multiple office locations. Uncovering 5 key areas for immediate focus in order to reduce significant friction around using the embedded equipment in rooms and providing easy access to the concierge if required.
     

  • Actively promote the importance of inclusive design and champion accessibility throughout the team and across the business by organising multiple guest speaker events to share their experiences of using assisted technology.
     

  • Use ethical research pillars of transparency, informed consent, privacy, data protection & do no harm in all aspects of my research projects.

Experience Designer
Legal & General

October 2020 - November 2022

  • As part of my role, I was responsible for the information architecture, navigation and online experience for Legal & General’s dotcom platform. One of my core focuses was to develop and share a deep knowledge of customer insight to understand their needs, attitudes and goals to deliver personalised digital experiences.

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  • Planned and facilitated remote depth interviews and usability tests as part of the Adviser Protection website re-launch. Six months post website launch saw an increase in website traffic by 72% and increased lead generation.
     

  • Lead the panning and execution of both open and closed cards sort activities through Userzoom, to identify how customers grouped content to define an information architecture that better aligned to customer mental models that drastically improved CSAT scores.
     

  • Used qualitative, quantitative, and behavioural methodologies to understand how customers interacted with Legal & General’s public facing website.

Education
  • Level 3 Diploma in Leadership & Management - Corndel

  • Professional Diploma in User Research - UX Design Institute

  • Professional Diploma in UX Design - UX Design Institute

  • Interaction Design Foundation 

  • Insights for Innovation - IDEOU

  • Storytelling With Influence - IDEOU

  • Enterprise Design Thinking - IBM

  • Agile Product Ownership - ICAGILE

Toolkit
  • Miro

  • Adobe analytics

  • Userzoom

  • Jira

  • Figma

  • Slack

Volunteering & Community
  • Telephone Friend - AGE UK

  • Mental Health First Aider - MHFAE

  • UXUP Brighton

  • Ladies that UX Brighton

Lauren Susanna Reynolds 
User Researcher & Experience Designer 

  • LinkedIn

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