Experienced design leader, designing and shipping web, mobile & desktop software.
My skillset includes leading design and UI teams, product strategy and discovery, user research, rapid prototyping & validation, user interface design and frontend development. Here are the tools I use.
I have built and shipped products from scratch, designing the UX, writing code and running marketing & growth campaigns. I've also led product teams to ship complex products end-to-end. Take a look at my portfolio and GitHub for examples of my work, products I've built and code I've written.
I take a lean approach to product design, using research and data to help guide design decisions early in the process, continuously validating assumptions & iterating with engineers and product stakeholders.
I have a Masters in Multi-Disciplinary Design from University of Ulster Belfast and am currently Head of Design at OneSignal, headquartered in San Francisco, building the future of messaging. Previously I have managed design and product teams at Mesosphere, Mailgun (acquired by Rackspace), Kareo and Runnable (acquired by MuleSoft), was Founder of Lookaly and created several websites including Postdrop, HTML Email and Codeshare.
🎨 Design Skillset
- Design Leader
- UX Design
- Developer Experience
- Lean Product Development
- Mobile & Responsive Design
💻 Development Background
- I am a designer that can code
- Primarily frontend: HTML, CSS, Javascript
- Familiar with backend: Rails, Node.js, PHP
- Other dev skills: Git, Email, Wordpress, Ghost, Craft CMS
🍄 Active Side Projects
📮 Open-Source Software
- Grunt Email Workflow
- Responsive HTML Email
- Transactional Email Templates
- Motherplate (Sass Boilerplate)
📣 Speaking Engagements
- Fluent Developer Conference, San Francisco
- Litmus Live Email Conference, Boston
- Web Unleashed Developer Conference, Toronto
- Future of Web Design, San Francisco
💪 Other Credits
- Mentor for Lean Startup Machine, Los Angeles
- Mentor for Startup Weekend, Oakland
- Author for Smashing Magazine
- Author for Web Designer Depot
- Author for tuts+
- Featured in Wired magazine
- Featured in .Net magazine [pdf]
🤓 Articles Of Mine You Should Read
- How I Noticed a Gap, Built a Solution, and Made It My Side Gig (Indie Hackers interview)
- Enterprise design stack: the tools we use to design the datacenter operating system (UX Collective)
- How we design enterprise software (Noteworthy)
- On the importance of design team education and building a culture of learning
- Side projects are your playground
- An introduction to building and sending HTML email for web developers (Smashing Magazine)
- How to get started user testing at your company (InVision blog)