Designing digital products that impact how people live and work
I'm a designer. I've worked with all sorts of organisations; from global corporates and national SMEs to charities and startups.
I usually work on early stage product and service innovation. I like speaking to real people about the problems they face and digging into organisations to understand how they work.
By combining these lessons with novel applications of design and technology I make new digital products that help people, provide a meaningful service and 'shift the needle' for the organisation.
How? Through the application of problem-solving approaches and design techniques learned and deployed over 100s of successful projects delivered to dozens of clients over nearly two decades.
“…excellent – calm, intelligent, added loads of value to our processes, everyone sang his praises. 10/10 would hire again.”
A full portfolio is available on request.
The UK's first charity technology accelerator
Head of design and product
CAST's (Centre for the Acceleration of Social Technology) Fuse programme is focussed on helping charities and non-profits exploit the opportunities digital technology presents to enhance and extend their service provision.
Kopi – The world's best coffee delivered fresh every month
Co-founder
Founded in 2011 with Philip Wilkinson, Kopi delivered a different, freshly roasted, gourmet coffee to subscribers every month.
I managed product development and logistics. Within three years the company had grown to multiple-thousands of subscribers and was subsequently sold to Cafédirect.
TaskSquad for vinspired
Lead service designer
Designing a revenue-generating paid work platform for a youth volunteering charity’s army of 100,000 young volunteers. It won £100,000 in Google's Global Impact Challenge Award.
The future of supermarket loyalty schemes
Lead experience design consultant
Lead three programmes of work over two years to understand how supermarket customer loyalty is changing with rapidly evolving shopping habits. What might loyalty programmes look like in the future and how do customers react when the scheme they know and love changes?
Moving the late majority of retail bankers online
Lead experience design consultant
Looking at ways a high street bank can use behavioural-interupting 'nudges' in-branch to encourage customers to adopt digital channels. Rapid idea generation, prototyping and testing, followed by presenting the lessons to senior business directors.
Innovation programme for Telegraph Media Group
Innovation consultancy
The Telegraph Media Group is awash with business-enhancing ideas from people at all levels from across the business. I helped devise a digital product innovation programme to gather, filter and act upon these ideas.