James Mckechnie
Interaction Designer - Senior Consultant at Version 1
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Mckechnie is a senior interaction designer with eight years’ experience shaping digital public services across UK government departments, now designing for the Ministry of Justice through Version 1. He brings a user-centred approach forged at the Department for Education, Home Office and Made Tech, combining practical service design with hands-on testing experience from early in his career. Based in Glasgow, he blends architectural thinking from his University of Edinburgh studies with an ability to translate complex policy requirements into clear, usable interfaces. Known for working well in cross-disciplinary delivery teams, he focuses on making public services accessible, auditable and resilient in production.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Certificate of Higher Education Architecture, Certificate of Higher Education Architecture at The University of Edinburgh
Github Skills (11)
cloud-platform8
go7
service-management6
prototypes5
nodejs4
css4
react4
dates3
cop3
typescript2
frontend2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ministryofjustice/legacy-systems-x-product-prototype
Nov 2023 - Mar 2026
X-product design features for the legacy systems replacement project - which includes Calculate Release Date, Remand and Sentencing and Adjustments.
Contributions:152 pushes in 2 years 4 months
ministryofjustice/hmpps-court-cases-release-dates-prototype
Oct 2024 - Feb 2025
A prototype for the combined journeys and service which make up Court cases and release dates.
Contributions:37 pushes in 3 months
hmpps
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