Project

John Lewis
& Partners

The rebrand and significant optimisation of one of the UK's largest chain of high-end department stores and online retailers

Screenshot of the John Lewis website, developed by John Kavanagh.
johnlewis.com

In Brief

One of the UK's largest department stores and online retailers with over 160,000 products and more than twenty million monthly visitors. In 2018 they undertook a complete identity and look/feel rebrand to 'John Lewis & Partners'.

My Role

Joining the 'Findability' team as their senior front-end developer, I was responsible for refactoring and maintaining their existing platform whilst optimising and adding features to improve users’ experience. In parallel, I was involved in the development of their all-new React platform, and key in the UI development of their 'John Lewis & Partners' rebrand: a complete rebuild of the website front end.

Photograph of the new John Lewis & Partners sign outside their Oxford Street store.

“ John is one of the best front-end developers I've had the pleasure of working with. Incredibly knowledgeable, great attention to detail – he understands design and why it's important to get it right, and he's also very experienced coding for accessibility. Always professional but with a great sense of fun, John would be an asset to any team and project. ”

“ I have worked with John at John Lewis on a team responsible for the most demanding pages on the website. John is a very skilled UI developer, very proactive, pragmatic and a fast thinking guy.

He has always a very strong opinion but sometimes he can be a loose cannon. I look at him as 'the guy who delivers the job', is always available and always has a valid working solution. ”

“ John is enthusiastic and enjoys getting work completed, he is happy to challenge priorities where he sees there is a quicker ROI to be made from his development. His opinion on how we have developed features has been key to our success this financial year. He is fun to work with, always vocal and the dynamic he brought with PO/UX/UI has driven us to deliver better quality features faster than before. ”