About me
Experienced Senior Digital Designer with a demonstrated history of working in multiple industries with over 4 years of management experience leading small design teams.
I have 20+ years of professional experience in both Graphic & Web Design.
I have over 8 years of experience working within an agile environment, working across Scrum, DSDM and Sprints.
I tend to organise my workflow within Design Sprints that sit within project sprints (if necessary and applicable). Completely comfortable working as part of a team or on my own.
Equally comfortable in the boardroom and on the studio floor with strong marketing, content creation, negotiation, relationship building and team management skills; proficient in social media analytics. Creative, socially engaged, team player with a passion for making a difference.
Highly skilled in Creative, Brand Identity, eCommerce, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), User Experience (UX - User Journey mapping, mind mapping, information architecture (IA) brainstorming for ideation, creating empathy maps), Motion design, Design systems, Logo Design, Typography and Artworking.
Strong information technology professional with a BTEC ND focused in Graphic Design from Dewsbury School of Art & Design.
A conscientious, artistic, creative soul with an eye for process, hard-working, highly-skilled, multi-disciplined, devoted and enthusiastic team member who will never shirk away from any situation.
“Design isn’t about how it looks.
It’s about how it works, feels, changes a persons life.
That is what design is about. It’s not necessarily the aesthetics, it’s about the outcome.”
Having devoted my working life to the field of design, it seemed a natural progression to move from traditional graphic design into web design and therefore UX & UI.
The skills I have learnt along the way have all been self-taught, and I now see my career progressing as not just a graphic or web designer, but instead as a multi-disciplined digital creative.
I am passionate about clean, well informed and educated design and have a healthy respect for knowledge and skill, which goes a long way to explain the relentless amount of learning I have put into self-development to ensure constant progression within my career.
“Good design, when done well, should be invisible.”
I am fluent in using the Adobe Creative Suite, writing HTML(5), CSS(3), and a little jQuery.
Fluent in Figma, Sketch and Adobe XD.
I also have a Certificate in Management (Level 3 NVQ)
You can find extra commercial & collaboration pieces on my Behance page with further details.
As part of my desire to ensure I have multiple skill sets covered, I consistently look at new courses and certifications to make sure I’m not standing still.