LI GARDNERResearch • Design • AI experience

Selected work.

6 case studies
Illustrative scene: a police officer studies a hotspot on a holographic city map beside a SARA workflow panel
01 / AI innovation & opportunity framing

Agentic AI pilot for UK police

From a GenAI demonstration to a fundable, evidence-led pilot.

Connecting executive ambition, operational reality and AI feasibility into a costed proposition for crime prevention.

2 weeksTo a defined MVP proposal
Agentic MVPDefined, with a scaling strategy

Agentic human–AI service design · Opportunity framing · MVP definition · Investment case

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A team works through a service design workshop while an agentic workflow of Strategy, Stakeholders, Research, Design and Implementation plan is overlaid
02 / Agentic AI & service design

Applying AI-first service design to complex public sector work

A multi-agent workflow for evidence-based service design.

Specialised Microsoft Copilot agents for cross-government discovery, with human judgement at every decision point.

>50%Less research time (user-reported)
4Government departments reached

Agentic workflow modelling · Human-in-the-loop · User research · Complex service design

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Royal Mail welcome-screen design from the project presentation, recreated on a phone beside parcels
03 / Product transformation & delivery

Royal Mail product & service design

Refocusing a national product on the journeys that matter.

The brief was a UI refresh. The opportunity was to build trust, improve retention and help customers serve themselves.

~3App Store rating increased to 4.6 stars
Up to90%Increased lead time to market

Experience strategy · User research · Product design · Service design · Dual-track continuous agile discovery & delivery

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AXA Health welcome screen paired with an illustrative sleep programme dashboard, beside a woman outdoors
04 / Digital health & service design

AXA Health product & service design

Turning healthcare expertise into scalable digital health services.

Clinically approved mobile health services, designed across members, clinicians, partners and technology.

~2MPotential members
5Digital health programmes

Experience strategy · Value proposition design · Service design · Product design · Design system

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Cargo ship at a coastal container port behind an illustrative phone screen showing Raise dispute, Review and respond, and Resolve stages
05 / Financial services & service transformation

Supply-chain finance service design

Redesigning a digital service for supply-chain finance operations.

After a merger, I modelled the operation, found the bottlenecks and led the work to a development-ready MVP.

2 → 1Merged companies into one digital service
60Global operations staff involved

Process modelling · Service design · North Star concept · MVP definition

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Two colleagues review a wall-mounted service blueprint while one annotates it with a pen
06 / Enterprise transformation & publishing

Service & transformation design for Royal Pharmaceutical Society

From legacy systems to one modern publishing service.

I reframed a stalled systems replacement around the end-to-end publishing service, and carried it into implementation.

90%+User adoption in the first rollout
60%+Operational efficiency gain, with safety and business as usual maintained

Data-heavy system design · Service model design · UX roadmap · UX/UI design · User research · Change management & adoption

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