About
I'm a digital product designer, helping teams build software at scale with design systems
Work Experience
—Scaling XUI (Xero User Interface) the Design System at Xero to support over 200 designers and 100 products.
—Developed foundational materials and guidance including Design Tokens to support other platforms including mobile and marketing.
—Researched divergence from the design system, developing processes and pathways for teams where there are gaps in the design system, reducing our cost to support.
—Designed and built internal tooling including Figma plugins for Accessibility and Design System documentation.
—Remit of Trade Me’s primary iOS and Android apps (combined 1.2M MAU).
—Mobile design ‘guild’ lead, facilitating collaboration across business units, working with product owners and designers, identifying shared problems to resolve cohesive experiences for users.
—Development of design systems, combining brand and development including developing guidance for onboarding, change aversion, experimentation, and cross platform cohesive experiences.
—Design sprints, Qualitative and quantitative research, identifying user needs, wireframing, prototyping, user-testing, interface design and release management.
—Documentation of Trade Me’s design system (Tangram.nz) and pattern library.
—Development of brand architecture, designing a cohesive and flexible system for all of Trade Me’s businesses and products.
Volunteering
Summer of Tech empowers New Zealand’s diverse tech candidates to bridge the gap between learning and earning, by making it easy and attractive for New Zealand employers to hire them.
I ran courses on soft and hard skills for designers, coached and mentored students in hackathons
Developed an initiative to encourage and grow emerging design talent through the Student Council at the Designers Institute of New Zealand.