Portfolio

Although a lot of my work is spent collaborating with awesome designers, here are a collection of projects where I took on the role of designer.

Call of the Brave

I built the platform for Call of the Brave iteratively. It started life as a simple static website that used a crowdfunding plug-in to collect pre-orders for t-shirt designs.

I used guerilla testing to get feedback on my designs. "Getting out of the building" enabled me to understand what people needed from the landing pages.

The logo was designed by a brand consultant and was also used for tags inside the t-shirts. I kept the dimensions of the tag for the logo on the homepage.

Later iterations of the site were built with Material Design UI components.

cxpartners microsite

A mockup of the cxpartners remote labs web pages, it has the value proposition: stay close to customers with our award winning low cost, managed user-research service

At the start of the pandemic in 2020, I was given a brief to create a microsite to promote cxpartners' new remote labs service. Using illustrations from our marketing materials, I designed and built a one-page site that showed off our new offer.

The site is still live: remotelabs.cxpartners.co.uk

Bristol Central Counselling

Screenshot of Jo's site with hero image with fonts matched to the theme and a simple layout.

Jo reached out to me after she had set up a Wordpress.com website for her new Counselling practice as she felt it "didn't look quite right".

On a limited budget and constrained by the limitations of the basic theme, I made a few tweaks and implemented what Jo hadn't been able to:

I improved the layout and removed unwanted Sidebar elements,
I recreated her banner image using Adobe Photoshop so the font families matched the theme,
I replaced the Wordpress footer with a call-to-action.

Recent work — invite

Helium baloons adrift in the sky as a background to a 40th birthday invitation

I still keep my hand in whenever possible. Last year, I designed an inivation for a low-key birthday celebration.

Recent work — JavaScript Glossary

a Figma design of a glossary website. it has a search bar in a side panel and a list of glossary terms to the right

This was a side-project I started to learn how to use Figma. I created components, variants and page layouts for a microsite for looking up definitions of JavaScript terms.

Figma components and their variants showing different states

Mobile version of design.