About
Some background
I grew up in the south-east suburbs of London, going on to the University of Kent to study history, politics and government. During a year’s postgraduate study in history during the mid ’90s I discovered the Web and HTML.
As the 90s drew to a close I got a job working in the Systems team of a library and redesigned the library’s website using my knowledge of HTML, adding a little Javascript and a lot of CSS along the way.
This led to me working for some leading organisations in the education and cultural heritage sectors, including the BBC, the Wellcome Trust and Birkbeck, University of London, along with freelance design work for private clients.
Specialisms
My passion is designing usable and aesthetically pleasing interfaces and I have experience in a number of interface-related areas, including interaction design, visual design and front-end coding.
In 2009 I achieved a distinction for the Open University course User Interface Design and Evaluation which gave me a solid grounding in practical Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and usability techniques and methods.
I put the user at the centre of all my design activities, from the initial research phases of a project through to production — requirements gathering to usability testing.
Current interests
Currently I am interested in the application of user interface design, and particularly user-centred design methodologies to support engagement and participation with digital resources within the cultural heritage, digital museums and humanities sectors. I am especially interested in participatory activities such as crowd-sourcing within these sectors.
I have recently been elected to the committee of the Museums Computer Group.
Additionally I am interested in improving the long-form reading experience on the Web and have a growing obsession with typography.
