Pat Armstrong

Pat Armstrong

Interaction Design in Sydney, Australia

About

Interaction designer and civic technologist leading projects for government, financial services, and technology orgs.

Work Experience

2022 — Now
Sydney

Product design and customer research for the NSW government’s single point of contact for the state’s eight million residents and businesses.

2023 — 2024
Parental leave

I was on parental leave from October 2023 — October 2024.

2016 — 2021
Sydney, Melbourne, Singapore

Interaction, strategic, and service design projects for ANZ, CommBank, DBS Bank, Facebook, National Library of Australia, Standard Chartered Bank, Westpac, and others.

2014 — 2016
Sydney, San Francisco

UI & UX lead on web overhauls for SFMOMA, the State Library of NSW, and other collecting institutions.

2013 — 2014
Sydney

Digital editorial design and data visualisation for long-form stories at an investigative journalism startup, including a Walkley-nominated piece of longform comics reporting.

2010 — 2014
Sessional Academic, School of Design at University of Technology Sydney

Wrote and delivered courses on web design & development, creative code, and interaction design.

2011 — 2013
Sydney

Publication and digital design for The Powerhouse Museum, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Carriageworks, AGNSW, Bundanon Trust, and other NSW arts organisations.

2007 — 2010
Sydney

Exhibition and publication design for cultural sector clients.

Projects

2020

Design and front-end development for the Sydney Review of Books.

2019

Website and brand for The Centre for Deep Reading, who make “environments for reading”.

2016

Led UI & UX on a website overhaul for San Francisco's SFMOMA, ahead of their 2016 expansion.

2016

Design & development for a narrative comic by Sam Wallman about land, space, and property.

2014

Longform comics journalism publised by The Global Mail: a first-hand account of life inside an Australian immigration detention facility.

Awards

2023

For “People-Centric Approaches to Al Explainability”, a report authored at Craig Walker, in collaboration with the Trust, Transparency and Control Labs (TTC Labs) team at Meta.

2014

For “A Guard’s Story”.

2014

Print and Online Media Award for “A Guard’s Story”.

Education

2003 — 2008
B. Design (Visual Communication, Hons.) / B. Arts (International Studies) at University of Technology, Sydney

Contact

Website
read.cv
Email
LinkedIn
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