Hey, I'm Divyen

Building high performing design teams and solving tricky problems with empathy, collaboration, and  storytelling.

Welcome to my portfolio! If you like what you see, I'd love to chat.

Work

I don't have conventional case studies for my more recent work. It's a mixture of hands-on work, design leadership and strategy, and managing designers. I'm very happy to create stories for these if you'd like to hear them.

Senior Manager, Digital Product Design at the LEGO Group

Right now I'm leading a team of 5 at the LEGO Group that works across the core LEGO shopping experience.

Design Lead at Cazoo

I previously lead a team of 3 designers in the Operations & Logistics design team at Cazoo.

↗ Case Studies

Projects I've worked on prior to Cazoo.

Speaking

↗ My Podcast

I co-host a podcast about Design called "What the UX?"

Writing

↗ The challenge of designing for colleagues (Cazoo Tech Blog)

January 2021

↗ Moving from design consultant to in-house (Bootcamp)

April 2020

↗ Leading with design context or design control?

October 2020

↗ How to spot a bad argument when designing

February 2019

Mentoring

↗ MSDUK

Mentoring minority startup founders in MSDUK's accelerator programme

↗ University of Birmingham Mentoring Scheme

Mentoring computer science students as they get ready to enter the workplace