Back to work. Looking for new contracts
About
I specialise in bringing together brand and product strategies to create engaging and delightful customer experiences.
I turn abstract ideas and complex business challenges into tangible product experiences and design systems.
I have over fifteen years of experience in designing digital products for premium and luxury brands. I have delivered beautiful e-commerce websites and apps, engaging interactive experiences, tools and design systems that have empowered teams. I have a deep understanding of technology stacks and how design and brands can get the most out of them.
Projects
brand and e-commerce strategy to combine 66ºNorth's rich heritage and their garments' technical capabilities into a new e-commerce proposition, retail experience and visual identity.
A new design system for shopping and editorial experiences across the web, iOS and Android.
Creating cohesion and focus for teams by establishing the design system for NET-A-PORTER and Mr Porter. hive consists of a set of principles, styles, components and patterns that enable teams to design at scale with precision.
Side Projects
A photographic archive by tbrasington. Pre social-networks (around 2004-8) this is what I and most of used to do with our photos. This is a bit of a digital garden for me to test out other technology and design combinations away from my work web presence.
Written in React via Next.js with Sanity providing the CMS. Styling is with Tailwind
Work Experience
Founded by Thomas Brasington, Design Engineering is a product studio that helps startups and brands realise their ideas from 0 → 1 ++
Refreshing the brand experience utilising 66ºNorth's rich heritage and their garments' technical capabilities into a new e-commerce proposition, retail experience and visual identity.
Creating cohesion and focus for teams by establishing the design system for NET-A-PORTER and Mr Porter.
Cross-platform product and experience design, from the design of burberry.com, where I made mobile e-commerce viable for selling luxury products, to tying garment development with emerging digital opportunities.
Building and designing small to medium sized web sites for art, fashion and commerce brands.