Curriculum Vitae
Antonio Trotta
Lead UX Designer · Fifteen years across FinTech and regulated industries
London · ant.trotta@gmail.com · linkedin.com/in/antoniotrotta
Lead UX Designer with fifteen years of experience in financial services and regulated product environments. Track record of driving measurable business impact through human-centred design: 44% revenue growth, 125% improvement in task completion, and 47% efficiency gains at the team level. Experienced in leading multi-disciplinary design teams, establishing research practices, and aligning design strategy with business outcomes at Director and C-suite level.
Experience
Lead User Experience Designer
Led design strategy for ICIS’s largest-ever technology transformation: a multi-year programme to consolidate five legacy editorial and analytics systems into a single unified platform. Collaborated with C-suite stakeholders and cross-functional leaders to deliver a multi-year product roadmap, with responsibility for design resource allocation, quarterly delivery planning, and prioritisation across UX, UI, and Research.
Designed the next-generation editorial and analytics platform, delivering a 47% improvement in collaboration efficiency and enabling a company-wide shift from editorial-first to data-driven analytical workflows.
Managed a team of seven designers, implementing targeted upskilling programmes in Figma, analytics tools, and stakeholder management. Planned and facilitated co-design workshops and Design Sprints, using Miro and FigJam to gather insights and ideas across distributed teams.
Founded and led the ICIS AI Study Group across the Digital Design Team, driving early adoption of AI-assisted design tools. Appointed AI Champion for ICIS, contributing to the company-wide “Technology as a Teammate” initiative, and led a cross-divisional AI design community of practice across RELX Data Services. Designed and launched a structured mentorship framework that directly enabled two designers to advance to senior roles. In 2025, was competitively selected as one of twelve leaders for the RELX Leadership Launchpad programme, recognising exceptional strategic impact across the Data Services Division.
Senior UX Designer
Led discovery and early-stage redesign of England’s leading care home rostering software, conducting user research and building the design foundations that informed the full product transformation. Contributed to business development by designing UX strategies for client pitches.
Senior UX Designer
Led UX strategy across IG Group’s trading, payments, onboarding, and conversion product areas over seven years, with work spanning the Nadex mobile PWA, the Nadex web trading platform, and IG’s core UK products. Championed user-centred design principles through embedded collaboration with developers, design sprints, and stakeholder workshops.
Redesigned IG’s payment services and account verification flows, improving bank verification rates from 35% to 76% and reducing customer service interactions by 54%. The proportion of verification requests processed within one hour rose to 65%, with average case resolution time improving from 2.25 to 1.0 days within a month of launch.
Led the design of IG’s new share-dealing platform, contributing to a revenue increase of 44% for FY20 versus FY19 and reaching 88% of total share-dealing trading volume. Led end-to-end UX design of the Nadex mobile PWA for mobile and desktop, reaching 20% of total trading volume within two weeks of open beta.
Established a structured mentoring framework for junior designers, helping team members advance in their careers through a structured approach to goal-setting and prioritisation.
Early Career
Three years across agency and in-house environments, beginning as a User Researcher at Spotless (2011–2013), conducting research and competitive analysis for major retail clients. Subsequently a User Experience Consultant at Accenture (2013), contributing to the Argos digital transformation and designing cross-platform mobile navigation. Joined Content and Code (2013–2014) as the firm’s first UX consultant, establishing standardised research and design methodologies.
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