Australia
As the point person for Console Connect's design system, Nimbus, I embraced the challenge of elevating its overall health. My focus is on refining accessibility, usability, and fostering a more collaborative environment between design and development through enhanced guidance and governance, including:
Restructure the design system by separating core components from composed ones.
Address inflexibility by introducing better frontend development standards.
Improve communication channels between design and development teams.
Create new components in the Figma UI Kit and engineered them.
Test components with a pilot team and introduced feedback cycles.
Address accessibility issues through introducing react-aria as a headless development library.
Introduced key guidelines and restructured the Storybook IA to help developers navigate the Nimbus.
2021 — 2023
This role at Octopus Deploy is a hybrid between design and development focusing on frontend user experience (UX Engineering). My main responsibilities are helping to maintain and enhance the internal design system and working on frontend accessibility, usability and user experience.
Audit of existing Octopus Design System (user interviews, docs, competitor research)
Generated a report on complex UI issues caused through poor design health
Converted existing design system to a CMS format
Established new design token language and initial tokens for Octopus Design System
Redesigned Octopus navigation through simplification and added new components to the codebase
Created a WCAG AA colour matrix and revamped/audited accessibility of the system
Created new homepage for marketing website and worked on strategic initiatives for marketing material
2021 — 2021
After working as a Fullstack Outfit requested I work on both design and developer domains. Throughout this role I looked at working more across the backend and frontend looking to implement features from the end to end cycle. During this time I worked across a majority of projects including:
Global search redesign
Brand System
Font upload and storage
Version history & CSS version control
Each of these projects required my to write Ruby on Rails, React, Redux and work with postgresql. During this time I worked on the UX of the application as well fixing usability bugs and consistent data bugs.
2020 — 2021
Brisbane, QLD
In this role, I joined the Product team as a Fullstack Developer & Product Designer. As a part of this team, my role was to help deliver core features of our enterprise product, contribute to the frontend stack of our products and deliver high quality POCs to prove and disprove functional features. During this role I got to experience the best of both worlds and I delved deep into a variety of UX techniques focusing on user research, mock-designs and independent research as well as learning to create easy-to-use solutions to complex problems. There was a steep transition curve with this role and I had to learn a lot on my feet, making it perfect as a fast-paced learning role. For the role I upskilled in the following:
React, Redux, Version Control with Git, Webpack, Ruby on Rails, Postgresql.
Design system (chakra, storybook)
Figma, Miro, Framer & Notion
Jira, Confluence & Trello
Shape Up, Agile w/ Lean UX & Sprint Scrum methods
2019 — 2020
Australia
As a template developer on the Customer Experience Team I work interdependently with a team consisting of development, marketing, sales, customer success and product design. In my role, I use and work on the SaSS platform to design products, working heavily with html, CSS, JavaScript, Markdown/Docz, UI/UX and layout design. My role has challenged me to learn the most effective way to write clean code and moved my design degree to the next level, giving me the opportunity to create unique motion designs for the company. I'm excited by this opportunity to learn and I am extremely happy with my career trajectory from this point.
Education
QUT (Queensland University of Technology)
Interactive and Visual Design (Honours)
Brisbane Grammar School