Lois Manning

Lois Manning has a natural inclination towards User Experience & User Interface Design, paired with an existing passion for photography design. As a user interface designer, Manning strives to design from a user’s perspective, viewing the world through their eyes to create user-centric designs that not only offer meaningful experiences but also prioritise ideas that are implementable, encouraging measurable impact. Manning gained practical experience through internships and projects where she collaborated with multidisciplinary teams to deliver seamless digital experiences. With a keen eye for detail, Manning is committed to designing accessible interfaces that enhance user engagement and ensure her designs can be accessed by all users. This is something she implements in her design practice while freelancing.

Waste Wise is an application designed to reduce food waste in landfill and to limit the amount of unsustainable meat consumed. The application is designed for households to help local meat producers, and vice versa.

Unseen Web is a platform that focuses on the accessibility of a website, breaking accessibility down into seven key areas. Unlike other website accessors, Unseen Web will visually show areas of success and errors within a website with a written description that is able to be understood by people without a specialist knowledge in website design. Unseen Web will also design users an improved websites based on accessibility, providing a ready to use solution.

British Museum. – The redesign of the British Museum app and map is designed to help visitors navigate the museum. Within the app, one of the main features is augmented reality, to assist with wayfinding around the museum. Augmented reality represents the future of indoor wayfinding, particularly in complex environments like museums. By simply overlaying arrows from a user’s camera feed, they are provided with stress-free directions. With the arrows being colour-coordinated to the map provides a seamless interaction between the two wayfinding systems. The map has been redesigned to be user-friendly for navigation.

Twister Active where multiple pop-ups, inspired by each Twister lolly, will host fun and interactive events in London parks. This is the website designed to promote the event, view inside each event and purchase tickets. A response to the D&AD New Blood 2024 Twister Brief in collaboration with fellow UX/UI student, Simranjit Khera.

Buzz Buddies is an application designed thinking ahead to the future to keep children safe within large green spaces in a city, specifically within the North Greenwich area. This was a collaboration project with Product Design students, where I was responsible for the application and hologram interface design.