BREAKING IN: Next Up: Matt Corrall

Next Up: Matt Corrall

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Matt Corrall is Lead User Experience (UX) Designer at DNV GL, one of the world’s foremost experts in the field of renewable energy, and is creating the next generation of software products for the wind turbine industry. With a background in industrial design, his broad portfolio includes everything from home appliances, mobile phones and toys, to innovations in smart energy monitoring, low environmental impact packaging and even wearble tech for racehorses. Matt’s work has been featured on Core77, Behance and in Korean quarterly Magazine B.

Matt graduated from the University of Northumbria in the UK in 2003 and moved to Denmark to work as a children’s toy designer for Lego. Over the next three years, he helped bring several successful Lego product ranges to market including Duplo Castle, Pirates and Airport toys.

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He spent the following five years working for leading UK design consultancies, including Cambridge Design Partnership and Kinneir Dufort in Bristol where clients included Akzo Nobel, Sony and Coca Cola. Projects included the PaintPod range for Dulux, and pioneering work in smart energy for Navetas. At Kinneir Dufort, he partnered with renowned designer Julian Brown, to demonstrate how design might empower people with dementia to lead more independant lives.

What has allowed Matt to work on such a broad range of products is his expertise in the humanisation of new technologies and ideas, and the skills to help companies from different industries to work in a human-centered way. Over the years he has made a gradual transition from industrial into UX or user interface design.

Today, at DNV GL in Bristol UK, Matt handles UX design for company’s renewable energy software products , and is introducing new techniques and processes to help the company develop an effective, user-centred design culture.

Follow Matt at www.matt.corrall.com and www.behance.net/corrall.