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Trevor van Gorp

Service Design, Product Design, UX, Co-author & Speaker

Trevor is a trusted service, product and UX design lead with over 17 years leading the end-to-end experience design of projects for government, banking, public sector and corporate clients. He is a full stack designer who guides products through the entire development cycle; from strategy and initial research, to interaction flows, prototypes, usability testing and visual design.

As the founder and principal UX designer at Affective Design, Trevor has:

  • created the information architecture for Canada’s 6th largest city
  • redesigned trip planning for Edmonton’s public transit system
  • designed Canada’s first open data, provincial, economic dashboard
  • mapped the student journey for Alberta Student Aid
  • led the design of a custom CRM app for Alberta’s largest bank

For the last 19 years, Trevor has consulted on design & user experience for clients such as DDB Canada, the City of Edmonton, the University of Calgary, the Alberta Teachers’ Association, the Edmonton Transit System (ETS), the Government of Alberta and ATB Financial.

He also co-authored Design for Emotion, an award-winning book that explains how to design for emotion and personality in products.

Find out more about Trevor

CONSULTING SERVICES

USER RESEARCH
INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE
INTERACTION DESIGN
USER INTERFACE DESIGN
SERVICE DESIGN
USABILITY TESTING

Case Study

ATB Unleashed – CRM Web App

ATB Unleashed is ATB Financial’s internal, customer relationship management (CRM) software

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Work

View examples of Trevor’s user experience design work in information architecture, user research, interaction design and user interface design.

View a small sample of projects

Book

Find out more about Design for Emotion (the award-winning book Trevor coauthored with Edie Adams) and designing for emotion and personality.

More on Design for Emotion

Speaking

View a list of Trevor’s past and upcoming presentations and speaking engagements on user experience design and designing for emotion.

Speaking engagements

Contact

Need more information on how Trevor can help your project succeed? Get in touch with him via telephone or email, to find out how he can help.

Contact Trevor

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