Rachel Oxton-King

2013 - 14

The British Museum

Web Designer

Services

  • User experience
  • User interface design
  • Content design
  • Brand guidelines
  • Mobile app design

Initially a maternity cover contract, during my time at the British Museum I was tasked with extending the outdated print guidelines to cover digital, designing a special online exhibition covering the history of Hajj, and updating the interface for the audio tour guide. After the end of my contract, I also returned to design the British Museum's first ever responsive site, Teaching History in 100 Objects, a project to inspire students' interest in history using one hundred objects from museums across the UK with resources, information and teaching ideas.

About The British Museum

The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world. It documents the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.

What my colleagues said

Rachel worked with the British Museum web team in 2013-14 and brought into existence the digital experience guide, a significant piece of work which interpreted the Museum's branding guidelines (conceived only with print in mind...) into the digital sphere. Rachel worked well with the digital team, stakeholders in Marketing and across the museum. I'd highly recommend Rachel as a digital designer and a great collaborator.

— Matthew Cock, Head of Web at the British Museum (via LinkedIn)