BT Consumer · Lead UX design

Connecting sport, service and self‑care across BT.

As Lead UX Designer, I led two product programmes across BT Sport and My BT—bringing subscription management, adviser tools, cross-platform viewing and the 5G proposition into clearer end-to-end experiences.

Product leadership BT Sport My BT & 5G Design systems Lean UX
Leadership mandate

Two programmes, one connected service challenge.

BT Sport and My BT were different products, but customers experienced them as one service. Buying, changing or cancelling sport depended on account, billing and support journeys; the player experience had to work consistently across living-room and personal devices.

I created direction across that system while keeping each squad close to delivery. The work combined proposition design, journey architecture, interaction design, research, brand governance and implementation oversight.

Programme 01

BT Sport

Three workstreams brought the commercial and viewing experience together.

  • Upsell, upgrade, downgrade, cancellation and save journeys
  • Adviser dashboards supporting customer conversations
  • Sport player enhancements across CTV, web and mobile
Programme 02

My BT & 5G

An account and proposition overhaul designed to make self-service clearer.

  • 5G discovery, eligibility, upgrade and management routes
  • Mobile account, plan, usage, billing and settings journeys
  • Extension of the BT design system across responsive services
Operating model

Double Diamond thinking inside a Lean UX delivery rhythm.

Discovery and research framed the problem; proposition and brand principles narrowed the direction; prototypes made decisions testable; and analytics plus customer feedback continued the learning after release.

I kept design one sprint ahead of development, used regular reviews to resolve dependencies early, and followed work through implementation instead of treating hand-off as the finish line.

Discover

Frame the whole journey

Mapped customer, service and platform dependencies before isolating individual screens.

Define

Set measurable principles

Aligned commercial goals with clarity, self-service adoption, satisfaction and contact reduction.

Develop

Prototype ahead

Maintained a one-sprint design lead so teams could test, refine and unblock engineering.

Deliver

Monitor in production

Reviewed implementation, quantitative dashboards and customer feedback after launch.

BT Sport large-screen iteration map across Roku, consoles, Apple and backend services
The delivery map coordinated multiple living-room platforms and shared services through staged iterations, trials and release readiness.
BT Sport · Subscription lifecycle

Treating conversion, retention and support as one journey.

The account experience covered the full subscription lifecycle: upsell, upgrade, downgrade, cancellation, save offers, reactivation and payment recovery. That same logic had to be legible in internal adviser tools so customers received consistent answers across channels.

I led the squad through the three connected workstreams—player, adviser dashboard and customer account journeys—while keeping experience decisions aligned across responsive breakpoints and service states.

BT Sport cancellation, save and reactivation flow map
Lifecycle mapping exposed the decisions and service checks behind cancellation, save and reactivation, allowing customer and adviser experiences to share the same logic.
BT Sport · Cross-platform player

Key moments, designed for the screen in front of the fan.

The player work explored a reusable event-timeline model that let viewers jump to meaningful moments in a stream. The interaction had to translate across remote control, pointer and touch without losing the information hierarchy.

The model used event markers, team colour and contextual labels to make live and replayed sport easier to scan—while adapting behaviour for CTV, web and landscape mobile.

BT Sport event timeline concept across television, laptop and mobile
A shared event model established the experience across devices before interaction details were tuned for each input mode.
BT Sport timeline markers for connected television
Connected TV: remote-friendly focus states and a readable marker sequence above the scrub bar.
BT Sport timeline markers for mobile landscape playback
Mobile: a compact landscape treatment supporting match, sport and editorial event modes.
My BT · 5G & account management

Making a new proposition understandable inside an existing account.

The My BT programme introduced 5G discovery and upgrade routes while overhauling mobile account management. Customers needed to understand eligibility, plan status, usage, billing and next actions without being pushed into a confusing sales detour.

I led two designers and one researcher, extending the existing design system across account, package, billing and settings patterns for responsive web and mobile.

My BT 5G digital service objectives and experience principles
Service principles connected the 5G proposition to digital satisfaction, self-service adoption and avoidance of incremental contacts.
My BT 5G eligibility, discovery and upgrade journey map
The 5G journey mapped entry points from home, package, BT Plus and mobile areas into learn-more and upgrade routes.
Research & optimisation

Research clarified where the interface—and the proposition—needed sharper language.

Task-based usability work showed that participants could navigate the revised structure, while also revealing recurring ambiguity around included services versus add-ons, “manage” versus “upgrade”, and package naming.

Those findings shaped CTA language, package presentation, personalised prompts and the relationship between account-management pages and order-progress states. After launch, dashboards and customer feedback provided the next layer of evidence.

Finding 01

Navigation was clear

Participants moved through the new layout successfully and valued relevant, actionable tasks.

Finding 02

Proposition labels blurred

Included services, add-ons and package names needed a more explicit relationship.

Finding 03

Actions needed precision

Customers expected direct add, manage and upgrade labels rather than generic destinations.

Finding 04

States had to connect

Account, order progress and service-management language needed to tell one coherent story.

My BT mobile account, settings and security journey map
The mobile-account map linked direct access and My BT entry points to summary, settings, security, usage and billing destinations.
Team leadership

Clear ownership, shared critique and a visible path to delivery.

I set direction, divided work into coherent design streams, maintained quality through critique and ensured research informed decisions at the right points. Close collaboration with product and engineering kept design one sprint ahead while preserving room to learn.

BT Sport squad

Three connected workstreams with one experience direction.

Lead UX Designer
3 designers 1 researcher Player Account & adviser journeys

My BT & 5G squad

Account transformation grounded in research and the BT system.

Lead UX Designer
2 designers 1 researcher 5G proposition Account & design system
Outcome

Successful launches with commercial and service impact.

Both the BT Sport overhaul and the My BT 5G experience launched successfully. Internal year-on-year quarterly reporting indicated a strong positive subscriber margin alongside fewer customer-service requests and shorter response times.

BT Sport overhaulConnected acquisition, account management, adviser support and playback.
5G launchIntroduced clearer discovery, eligibility, upgrade and management routes.
Self-serviceDesigned to reduce avoidable contacts and clarify customer next actions.
Continuous learningImplementation monitored through analytics dashboards and customer feedback.

Exact commercial and operational figures are confidential; outcome statements reflect internal year-on-year quarterly reporting.