CV for Dem Gerolemou, designer at Google Health. Formerly at DeepMind and ustwo. Passionate about building a fairer and healthier world
Experience
Google Health
My time at Google Health has been focused on the success of the Care Studio suite of products alongside other health-related initiatives. I’ve predominantly focused on defining a cohesive, safe and scalable visual language for our products, leading the design system projects for both mobile and desktop and being promoted in recognition of my work.
My attitude to design in healthcare is that of a function: the healthcare sector is not a place to be flashy or overly playful in the design of interfaces. A combination of UXR and leading the healthcare empathy team at DeepMind taught me about the reality of our users’ days when using digital tools. It’s been my mission to create interfaces that respect our users and deliver value transparently and effectively.
- Visual Design lead for multiple key projects, including carrying the mobile product from an early prototype to a successful UAT launch and the desktop product redesign to focus on usability and scalability
- Key focus areas include accessibility, data visualisation, scalability and clinical safety
- Aligned global cross-functional teams on a long-term approach to design, treading the line between short-term value and long-term success while prioritising our business needs
- Data visualisation specialist, collaborating with an engineering partner to build and launch a data visualisation framework bespoke to our needs, adopted by other teams facing similar issues. Consulted with teams across Alphabet to advise on accessibility in data visualisations
- Stepped up to support the UK Government’s COVID response effort in the chaotic weeks leading to the national lockdown
- Established and led diversity, equity and inclusion group for Health in London
- Won multiple awards for team contributions (see Education & Achievements)
DeepMind
I joined the DeepMind Health team soon after its formulation to work on the success of Streams. My time on the team saw my work span across research, discovery phases and visual design. Given the small scale of the team, I had the opportunity to contribute broadly across multiple roles.
- Visual Design lead for multiple flagship features and redesigns with work directly leading to improvement in all key metrics across the board including safety, engagement and stickiness
- Key focus areas include accessibility, data visualisation, scalability and clinical safety
- Established and led healthcare empathy group to engage the cross-functional team in UXR material and context-building exercises, reaching 90% engagement
- Established and led diversity, equity and inclusion group
- Represented our team externally in talks, workshops and interviews, audiences include NASA JPL, Future London Academy, Helix Centre and many more (see Speaking & Outreach)
- Led various elements of medical device certification process
- Art directed cover art submissions for Nature Medicine for featured DeepMind research papers
Please note, the overlapping dates include a year of work at DeepMind via ustwo
ustwo
I joined ustwo as an intern looking to specialise in UX design. In my time on the team, I worked across multiple sectors including healthcare, automotive, retail and fintech while also focusing on new business opportunities, notably taking on an extensive amount of external talks and writing a chapter for the studio’s published book on the future of autonomous vehicles. I was promoted twice in my time at ustwo.
- UX design for 4 flagship apps across various large-scale, global organisations as well as several discovery phases
- UX designer on an alpha discovery team that helped the Co-op colleagues save up to 7 hours per week (see case study)
- Wrote a chapter on holistic problem-solving for ustwo’s book on the future of autonomous vehicles (see case study), participating in a live debate at the London Transport Museum as part of the launch
- Consultation and advice for startups via ustwo Adventure
- Support for new business team as a representative at relevant conferences
- Extensive list of talks on behalf of the studio and to engage students in UX career opportunities (see excerpt under Speaking & Outreach)
Freelance
Following graduation I took on various freelance projects across design and development focusing on the creative industries such as fashion and illustration. I stopped taking on new work in 2016 to focus my time and energy on my full time job.
- Clients include Anderson Belts, CCD Insights, Cos Gerolemou, Indigofera, IPR London, Mr Bingo and Studio Nicholson
- While a designer by trade, I built each site to spec, working mostly with PHP to build self-service sites for clients to manage their own content, more recently adopting Jekyll
Moving Brands
Internship at leading branding agency, Moving Brands. I worked on multiple pitches, a flagship rebranding project and a research-led proposal on sonic branding opportunities.
Previous Experience
- Designer (Hewoco)
- Technical Lead (•••• exhibition)
- Social Media Coordinator, Bar Staff (The Railway Inn)
- Product Design Intern (Cyber Interactive)
- Student Ambassador (University of Southampton)
- Summer Camp Teacher (Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School)
- Design Lead (In Situ exhibition)
- Designer (Hüp Studio)
- Shoot Assistant (Geocast)
- DevOps Placement (Lloyd's of London)
More Info
Education & Achievements
- Google for Clinicians citizenship award (Google, 2022)
- London Engineering org citizenship award (Google, 2020)
- Award for Excellence for contributions to Alphabet’s COVID response (Google, 2020)
- Founding member, Founders of the Future (attending the 10 Downing Street launch with my friend + former boss)
- Rising Star Award Finalist (Design Week, 2017)
- University of Southampton (BA (Hons) Graphic Arts, 2:1, 2011–2014)
- International placement (Dalian, Shanghai, Suzhou, Wuxi, Yixing, Mar 2013)
Related Volunteering
- Mentor (Founders of the Future, 2017–2020)
- Mentor (Creative Mentor Network, 2018)
- Teacher (Mayor’s Fund for London, 2017)
Speaking & Outreach
- Airbnb
- Creative Mentor Network (mentor)
- DeepMind
- Founders of the Future
- Future London Academy
- Graphic Design Educators' Network
- Helix Centre
- In2Science
- London Transport Museum
- NASA JPL
- One Day Out conference
- Royal Society
- Shoreditch House
- Visiting lecturer (across multiple universities)
Links
- MEDITECH and Google Health highlight pilot phase collaboration (MEDITECH, 2022)
- Google’s Healthcare Data Platform, Care Studio, Is Partnering With One Of The Largest EHR Systems (Forbes, 2022)
- Google rolls out mobile app version of Care Studio (Mobile Health News, 2021)
- Interview (Lovers Magazine, 2021)
- Interview (Creative Lives in Progress, 2020)
- Predicting conversion to wet age-related macular degeneration using deep learning (Nature Medicine, 2020)
- Google's AI Bested Doctors in Detecting Breast Cancer in Mammograms (Time, 2020)
- DeepMind’s health team joins Google Health (Google, 2019)
- DeepMind, artificial intelligence and the future of the NHS (The Times, 2019)
- DeepMind's new AI predicts kidney injury two days before it happens (Wired, 2019)
- Using AI to give doctors a 48-hour head start on life-threatening illness (DeepMind, 2019)
- A clinically applicable approach to continuous prediction of future acute kidney injury (Nature, 2019)
- Evaluation of a digitally-enabled care pathway for acute kidney injury management in hospital emergency admissions (npc Digital Medicine, 2019)
- Interview (Future London Academy, 2019)
- Implementation of a Digitally Enabled Care Pathway (Part 1): Impact on Clinical Outcomes and Associated Health Care Costs (JMIR, 2019)
- Scaling Streams with Google (DeepMind, 2018)
- Artificial intelligence 'did not miss a single urgent case' (BBC, 2018)
- Clinically applicable deep learning for diagnosis and referral in retinal disease (Nature Medicine, 2018)
- Astronauts, Bees and Sofas: Lessons for Those Starting a Career in Design (Medium, 2018)
- Google DeepMind’s Streams technology branded ‘phenomenal’ (Digital Health, 2017)
- Interview (Creative Lives in Progress, 2017)
- Rising Star Award Finalist (Design Week, 2017)
- New mother receives pioneering kidney treatment after app detects life-threatening illness (Evening Standard, 2017)
- The Big Surface Debate (ustwo, 2016)
- 5G: Creativity Without Constraint Or A One-Size-Fits-All Future? (TechCrunch, 2015)