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. I write about what I learn running design & product teams here.
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.
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 several websites including Postdrop, HTML Email and Codeshare.
🎨 Skillset
- 10+ Years Product & Design Leader, Coach, Mentor
- 20+ Years UX Design, Web Development
- Passion for designing & building world-class B2B web applications
🍄 Active Personal Projects
📮 Open-Source Software
- Figma Community Design Systems
- Grunt Email Workflow
- Responsive HTML Email
- Transactional Email Templates
🤓 Articles Of Mine You Should Read
- How I Noticed a Gap, Built a Solution, and Made It My Side Gig (Indie Hackers interview)
- An Introduction To Building And Sending HTML Email For Web Developers (Smashing Magazine)
- The Ultimate Guide To Push Notifications For Developers (Smashing Magazine)
- How Product, Design & Engineering Work Together
- How we Organize Figma Projects and Files On Our Design Team
- How We Do Design Systems
📣 Speaking Engagements
- Fluent Developer Conference, San Francisco
- Litmus Live Email Conference, Boston
- Web Unleashed Developer Conference, Toronto
- Future of Web Design, San Francisco
- Advanced Email Conference, London
💪 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]
📚 Books I Read More Than Once
- Lean Startup, Eric Ries
- Rework, Jason Fried
- Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
- Inspired: How to create products customers love, Marty Cagan
- Start With Why, Simon Sinek
- Continuous Discovery Habits, Teresa Torres
- The Making Of A Manager, Julie Zhuo
- Escaping The Build Trap, Melissa Perri