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I’m a digital product designer with seven years professional experience. I’ve worked with idea-stage, seed-funded and venture-funded startups as well as starting my own companies and products. I have expertise in UI, UX and interaction design and IA. I am a production-level front-end developer and possess technical knowledge in HTML5, CSS3, Javascript (jQuery), Git, Liquid (for Shopify development) and the Meteor realtime JS framework. I have a working/improving knowledge of Rails.

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Helvetitee was the result of a four-day hack by developer Chico Charlesworth and I. We wanted to create a product that would gain traction virally, but be as simple and quick to develop as possible.

Tshirt sites are often bloated, whereas Helvetitee offers no options—”the ultimate hipster accessory” as one blogger called it. We were featured on the Hacker News front page, Design Milk, Coudal.com, Inqmind, SiteInspire and many more.

http://helvetitee.com/
UI, UX, concept View project

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Dsgn Jbs is a personal project, born out of frustration (or perhaps laziness).

I regularly check the various design job boards, but opening each after the other is a bit laborious. So, instead, I used IFTT to amalgamate various RSS feeds into one Twitter stream (@dsgnjbs), and then created a responsive site to show off the stream.

You can read more about the process on the blog.

http://dsgnjbs.com/
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I worked as Lead Designer at Top10 from 2010 to July 2012, overseeing 3 iterations of the web app product.

Praise for the design came from notable industry figures such as Aarron Walter (MailChimp), Dave McClure (PayPal, 500 startups) and Nick Halstead (DataSift).

http://top10.me/
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One of the first 12 Spotify apps, and still among the most popular today.

The app’s users made over one million song recommendations in the first six months. The UX received high praise in various media such as TechCrunch and GigaOm.

http://open.spotify.com/app/top10
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I was tasked with giving ReadWave — a place for amateur writers to upload their stories — a complete design overhaul and refresh their branding.

A more vibrant colour palette was employed to induce feelings of excitement about the content available to readers; whilst an unmissable call to action prompted would-be Rowlings to show off their ability.


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Art-directed food blog with a focus on the London restaurant scene. Responsive from desktop to mobile.

Reviews are written and designed by me, with Alice Feaver providing the illustration.

http://forkingknife.com/
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Alice Feaver is a chef and illustrator. She required a custom blog that would allow her to create both recipe and drawing posts.

I built the blog using Harmony in order that a nice URL structure could be put in place utilising the ‘alice.is’ domain (e.g. alice.is/cooking/vegetable-fritters). The site also includes hundreds of digitised recipes from Alice’s notes, and is fully responsive from desktop to mobile.

http://alice.is/
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Homepage design for Seedcamp winner MyBuilder.com. This redesign is to be implemented in 2013.

I also helped transition the site to a mobile friendly layout in a designer and front-end engineer capacity.

http://mybuilder.com/
UI, front-end build View project

Further work samples are available on request.

History

Currently
Exploring startup ideas and accepting freelance work
2010–2012
Top10 (Lead Designer)
2009-2010
Co-founder, Monza (Design/development consultancy)
2009-2010
University of Leeds (Lecturer: Interface Design)
2007-2009
TwentySix (Mid-weight Designer)