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Ellie Runcie

Chief Design Officer

Roles and responsibilities

  • The user experience and design across the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ’s full digital portfolio of platforms, products and services, tools and systems.
  • Working closely with technical, editorial, marketing and product teams to create digital experiences that are simple to use, delightful and accessible.
  • Delivering design excellence and promoting ‘public centred design’ with the digital portfolio as well as across the wider business.
  • Maintaining and amplifying the world-class reputation the department has as a Centre of Excellence for all aspects of user experience design.

Biography

Ellie is responsible for the user experience design across the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ’s digital portfolio of products and services and systems, ensuring digital experiences are easy to use, distinctive and deliver value for all audiences.

Before joining the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ in 2019, Ellie led the UK Design Council’s innovation work, shaping national programmes that embed design capabilities at scale in key markets and sectors, including manufacturing, health and wellbeing and education. She led ‘Designing Demand’ – an £8m design support programme enabling 5,000 businesses to adopt design capabilities and increase their performance. Over a ten-year period, these businesses grew by 40%, more than double that of a national control group. She also shaped the Design Council’s work in the public sector, applying design approaches to tackle more than 100 societal challenges nationally. In addition, Ellie worked alongside the team that developed the Design Council ‘Double Diamond’ in 2004 and for the following 15 years, led its continued evolution and application across national design programmes, building a unique portfolio of methods and approaches which ultimately became the Design Council's ‘Framework for Innovation, published in 2019.

Annual remuneration (as at July 2024)

  • £205,000 - £209,999

Expenses and central bookings

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  • Ellie Runcie had no expenses paid in Q4 2019-20
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  • Ellie Runcie had no expenses paid in Q2 2019-20
  • Ellie Runcie had no expenses paid in Q1 2019-20

Gifts and Hospitality Register

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  • Ellie Runcie had no gifts or hospitality to declare in Q4 2021-22
  • Ellie Runcie had no gifts or hospitality to declare in Q3 2021-22
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  • Ellie Runcie had no gifts or hospitality to declare in Q1 2021-22
  • Ellie Runcie had no gifts or hospitality to declare in Q4 2020-21
  • Ellie Runcie had no gifts or hospitality to declare in Q3 2020-21
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  • Ellie Runcie had no gifts or hospitality to declare in Q1 2020-21
  • Ellie Runcie had no gifts or hospitality to declare in Q4 2019-20
  • Ellie Runcie had no gifts or hospitality to declare in Q3 2019-20
  • Ellie Runcie had no gifts or hospitality to declare in Q2 2019-20
  • Ellie Runcie had no gifts or hospitality to declare in Q1 2019-20

Declaration of personal interests

Staff must make a declaration of their personal and business interests, including any memberships or directorships of public or industry bodies, and any shareholdings, as well as any interests that their immediate families may also have.

A summary is published where there is something to declare and where there is nothing to declare. Occasionally an individual will have something to declare but due to the personal nature of the declaration we do not publish details as to do so would breach the General Data Protection Regulation.

This information is published annually, although if any amendments are made during the year an updated summary will be published if necessary as soon as it is available.

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