About me
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Writings
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Overview
Skills
Breakdown of skills and experience
Work History
Where I've worked.
Portfolio
A sample of my work.
Testimonials
What people are saying about me.
Design Process
My design process.
A detailed breakdown
Product / Service Design as a whole. Considering business needs and priorities, technical delivery capabilities, human-to-system and system-to-system touchpoints, workflows and interactions across organisational boundaries.
View my work history and portfolio for examples.
Highly experienced
lifecycle
(Real-time, mission-critical, high-impact, multi-user, non-linear workflows, large data-sets, variable underlying tasks, supporting hand-offs to other roles, inter-connected systems and applications)
User Experience Design is a highly multi-disciplinary field and I am highly-skilled across most of its sub-disciplines.
Expert
Advanced / Expert
Although I do not have a professional qualification in Visual Design, I appreciate the importance of good visual design and how it can affect users' moods, perceptions, impressions, and overall readability as well as usability of a product.
Advanced
Intermediate / Advanced
I started my professional career as a web designer and front-end developer back in the mid-1990s when the Web was at it's infancy.
I was and am still able to develop pixel-perfect implementations based on designs (although over the years this has been less important with established design systems and the nature of responsive design).
In some cases, I am able to prototype faster in raw code than producing prototypes in Axure.
My former life as a Senior Front-End Developer and Team Lead enables me to confidently liaise and work with development teams and be the "bridge" or intermediary between Product Management and Development teams.
I have a strong understanding of how much effort some functionality will take to be implemented and my UX design solutions not only take into consideration of user needs but I balance it out with delivering a service or product that meets business requirements and technical implementation and delivery within project deadlines.
Intermediate
Learning
Learning (80% familiarity)
Many learning resources suggest that if you're already comfortable with CSS, you're about 80% of the way to understanding Tailwind.
I make the transition from one stage of the project life-cycle to the next as smooth as possible by providing the necessary specs and documentation.
For documentation.
These range from static site-generators to cloud-hosted solutions
Beginner
Standard tools of the trade
Standard productivity, documentation, collaboration, project-tracking and other software used in large organisations
Beginner / Intermediate
Working the Design process into these software development methodologies
Many of my projects involve complex workflows and touch-points across the physical and digital space, and across organisational boundaries.
Understanding or Applied Knowledge
Expert (for a UXer)
Hands-on retail trading experience
Modules studied from studying BSc. Business Computing Systems
Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
Business Accounting Systems
Business Organisations
Business Process Re-engineering
Client Server Systems
Database Systems
Data Modelling
Expert Systems & Applied AI
IT Security
Requirements Engineering
Object-Oriented Software Engineering