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About

Curiosity, connected to craft.

I'm a multi-disciplinary designer for complex organisations. I think in terms of systems: seeing the pattern, iterating quickly, connecting people who don't usually talk to each other, and loving the build itself.

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Profile

The short version

Service design and UX applied end to end to AI-native products: research, journey mapping and service blueprints, brand and art direction, prompt and pipeline design, workshop facilitation, content and video production, and the build itself.

Experience

Where I've done it
02Professional Jan 2024 → current · 2 yr 8 mo
Dec 2025 → current · 8 mo

Design and Marketing Campaign ManagerPromoted · Group

Benefact Group

Group-wide: campaign delivery, brand strategy and design advisory across Digital, Data, Social, Impact and Internal Comms, reporting to the Head of Brand and Marketing.

Outcome Ran the first cross-functional user journey workshop the team had done; it became the reference plan the work now runs from
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Jan 2025 → Dec 2025 · 11 mo

Graphic and Multimedia DesignerMade permanent

Benefact Trust

Kept on full-time when the cover ended. Service blueprints, journey maps and a full website redesign.

Outcome YouTube 928 → 30,000+ views · 96% of users rate the site easy to navigate
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Jan 2024 → Jan 2025 · 12 mo

Graphic and Multimedia DesignerMaternity cover

Benefact Trust

Joined on a fixed-term contract covering a year's leave.

01Development Sep 2018 → Jan 2024 · 5 yr 4 mo
Jan 2022 → current · ongoing

Independent practiceFreelance

Own clients

Brand, web and product work taken on directly, run alongside everything below it. Still running.

2023 → 2026 · 3 yr

No.91 DevelopmentsClient · brand & web

Freelance

Garden construction in Cheltenham. An identity built the way they build, and a site that sells design rather than trade.

Outcome Re-platformed off Webflow onto Cloudflare Pages in 2026 — same site, no recurring fee
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Dec 2022 → Jan 2024 · 13 mo

Service DesignerStartup · part-time

Vault Investments

Shaped the brand positioning and storytelling for a fintech startup, making a complex blockchain-based investment platform accessible to investors in Latin America. Run part-time, straight through the MA.

Outcome Pitch content secured £5,000 Imperial College funding and 1st place in the MBA entrepreneurship competition
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Sep 2022 → Sep 2023 · 12 mo

MA Service DesignStudy

Royal College of Art

Where the systems thinking got formal.

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Sep 2021 → Jan 2022 · 4 mo

MarketerStartup

Puredrive Energy

Renewable energy startup. Brand, campaign and web across a growing product line.

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Sep 2018 → Jun 2021 · 2 yr 10 mo

BSc Marketing & DesignStudy

Lancaster University

Where the two halves first sat in the same degree.

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Bar length = months elapsed · hatched = continuous practice, not a post

The kit

What I make it with, and what it made

Skills

Ten, with the work that proves them
CapabilityProven at
01Service designBenefact Trust
02AI product designVan Brain
03UX / UI designCotswold Sauna
04Design strategyBenefact Group
05Service blueprintingVault Investments
06Journey mappingBenefact Trust
07Brand identityAurora Tents
08Prompt & pipeline designBrand Flow
09Building with AI agentsR.E.X.
10Data visualisationTapestry

Beyond work

Life
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Runner & gym

Where I do my actual thinking. Most of the ideas on this site arrived somewhere around mile three.

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Film buff

Obsessed with storytelling and character arcs. Favourite of late: In the Mood for Love, and anything with Jake Gyllenhaal.

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Maker

The half of this job I would do anyway. The work page is mostly things nobody asked for.

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Traveller

Berlin in October, which is why I built a voice trainer to get me through it.

Dream job

The role I'm building toward
Dream job

AI-Native Design Lead

Hybrid · RemoteOpen to the right one
AI product designCreative systemsService design PrototypingArt direction

Key responsibilities

  • Own the design of AI-native products end to end, from the loop underneath to the interface on top
  • Build working prototypes rather than decks, and use them to settle arguments early
  • Design the generation pipelines that make creative output repeatable for a whole team
  • Set the guardrails: where a model proposes, where a human approves, and what never ships unchecked
  • Facilitate the cross-functional sessions that turn a messy brief into one clear decision
  • Hold the taste line, and say honestly what was automated and what was curated

Role overview

This role sits where creative direction meets systems thinking. Working end to end, from the first prompt to the shipped artefact, turning one-off AI output into something a team can re-run without losing the taste.

Expect to shift between hands-on making and the architecture behind it: prototyping in code, art-directing models, mapping the loop, and deciding where a human has to stay inside it. The job is to make AI genuinely useful to an organisation, not merely visibly present in it.

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