- Founding a design and development studio focused on delivering digital solutions for startups and SMEʼs across various industries.
- UX/UI design, web development, and ecommerce projects.
- Driving strategic design consultation and hands-on development to create impactful products and services.
Work Experience
Oct2023 - present
UX Engineer at 🌐 One Big Lab
Oct2023 - Aug2024
Founder Fellow: @LaunchClubAutumn24 at 🧢 Cap
- ⚙️ Currently building Cap: An opinionated budgeting app.
Feb2022 - 23/03/2023
UX Engineer at 🪐 Gravity
- 🛠️ Designed and coded functional components for enterprise software products.
- 👨🏼💻 Worked on product interaction concepts with latest frontend tech: Tailwind, TailwindUI, NextJS and, TypeScript.
- ⚙️ Built design systems with documentation using Storybook, Confluence and Notion.
- 🚀 Crafted and launched service websites for clients.
Jan2022 - 20/11/2022
Lead Designer at 🪐 Gravity
- 🛠️ Designed intuitive design systems, interaction experiments and product concepts using Figma, Storybook, and Framer.
- ⚙️ Built UX flows and UI systems for consumer apps and enterprise services.
- 👨🏼💻 Worked on innovative stealth-mode product projects for corporate clients across various sectors; telecommunications, home improvement, and finance.
Feb2020 - 30/09/2020
Creative Technologist at ⚡️ Run
- 🧑💻 Collaborated Māori owned, globally awarded creative & design agency; translating creative concepts into functional prototypes for clients.
- 💼 Working briefly on indigenous-led branding projects, cultural workshops.
Jan2020 - 20/02/2022
Experience Designer at 💥 Colenso BBDO
- 💥 Crafted design for immersive digital experiences for corporate clients spanning the telecommunications, pet food, and banking.
- ⚙️ Designed UX flows and UI systems for a globally recognised client in the pet food sector on their consumer app.
- 🔎 Conducted UX research initiatives on various projects to gather insights and inform design decisions, resulting in tailored solutions to be culturally, socially and technologically sound.
Feb2019 - Feb2019
🇳🇿 Tāura Kaiwhatu / Student Mentor at Auckland University of Technology
- 📝 Mentored University Students spanning; product design, digital arts, creative technologies and media, visual arts and fashion design.