Leading design at every stage

Having designed interfaces from the complex to the crazy my work as a visual designer will never stop exciting me. I am primarily an applications designer. I don’t use Photoshop. I mock up toolkits in Sketch and design in code.

My absolute passion and privilege is to manage people. I support, motivate and mentor them to do their best work. I build top-of-class creative teams that are healthy, happy and love what they do.

I’m a trained UX Researcher and love producing my own fully fledged ethnographic validation testing, card sorting, emotion mapping and analysis.

I’m a complete agile evangelist. Working in agile development teams has inspired me to bring the methodology into my own practice by running design sprints and working in a lean iterative way.

Paper mock-ups, sketch sessions and Axure prototypes are a fundamental part of my design process. I also run collaborative wireframing sessions which are an interesting way of rapidly working out layouts and user journeys.

I think it’s pretty darn important to know the structure of code and how it works. I’m confident writing HTML and CSS. In my years of hacking code to make that style perfect, I’ve picked up a thing or two.