Phil Thompson is a UX Engineer living & working in London, UK.

He is a senior/lead front-end developer with over 20 years experience. Focusing on design systems, accessibility, usability, and performance; working across FinTech, Travel, Ecommerce, and UK Government.

Frontend skills

Coding rich single-page-applications (SPAs) with ReactJS and TypeScript and testing with both Cypress/Playwright and React Testing Library
Creating responsive and accessible HTML/CSS templates (which load quickly)
Building responsive HTML prototypes and design systems or style-guides/pattern libraries
Coding framework-free JavaScript

Accessibility skills

Phil provides web accessibility consultancy services under the name A11y is Everything.

Reviewing code and designs and suggest alterations to improve accessibility
Test websites with JAWS on Windows and VoiceOver on MacOS/iOS to notice issues>
Help development teams to create accessible UI components by reviewing PRs
Help design teams to create accessible designs by reviewing designs and feeding back on WCAG against the designs
Train people on how to use assistive tech (e.g. screen-readers), how to find and fix accessibility issues

Lead developer skills

Leading dev teams to stay motivated, meet deadlines, and deliver quality code
Reviewing code and providing feedback in a kind and constructive manner
Mentoring junior/middleweight developers
Bridging the gap between the business and developers or design and developers
Writing policies for development standards

Ecommerce (Shopify) consultancy

Phil provides ecommerce (Shopify) consultancy services under the name Safra.

Writing bespoke Shopify themes
Advising on best practice to improve sales

Development process

The code for this site is available on GitHub for your perusal. It is a simple ~~PHP template (for easy header/footer includes)~~ 11ty static website that makes use of Github actions to deploy to a virtual private server with Continuous Integration (CI).

Also happy using the latest JavaScript frameworks and learning new ones on the job.

Direct clients

Digital/Design agencies

Working with established agencies like Friday (now PA Consulting), Fluxx, and Tribal Worldwide in London, 383 Project in Birmingham, cxpartners in Bristol, AREA 17 in New York/Paris, Code Computerlove and LOVE in Manchester has given Phil the opportunity to perfect his skills on global brands like HSBC, Playstation, EA Games, Diageo, The Rolling Stones, The BBC, and Volkswagen.

Nice things people have said

Phil is a highly skilled developer and quickly became an invaluable member of the team on a challenging project. He has a great working attitude and I would definitely hire him again.

Daisy Thurston-Gent, former Operations Manager, Tribal Worldwide London

Phil is an excellent developer and a great professional who was always keen to help and offer valuable advice when needed. We would gladly work with him again and are indeed looking forward to doing so in the near future.

Alan Pradera, Marketing and Sales Director, Economist Films

Phil is great to work with. He not only works to brief but will help shape it as required. He has great knowledge and a positive attitude. Will definitely work with him again.

Una Carney, former Planning Director, Viacom

Phil has great communication skills. We worked together on a redesign project across different timezones, which ran smoothly. Phil brings strong dev skills and a fun personality to the table.

Angela Bliumis, Production Director, AREA 17

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Work together

If you have project that you think would be suited to Phil then you can email him: work@philthompson.co.uk