Passionately curious, constantly learning and leading through design.
Hey, I’m Paul, thanks for stopping by. I’m a strategic experience designer passionate about creating meaningful human-centred design. I’ve proudly directed award winning research and design teams, crafting highly effective customer centric experiences.
I love bringing projects to life, collaborating with strategy, creative, and technology teams. I utilise Design Thinking methodologies and human-centric principles to architect solutions, commonly leading the extension of creative campaigns into digital mediums. I’ve taken a user-centred approach throughout my career, combining design and technology to create effective and meaningful experiences. Whether it be through user research, digital strategy, interface and experience design, art direction or the roll out of brand design processes, putting people at the heart of what I do allows me to create unique and effective solutions that people love.
When I’m not designing, you’ll find me laughing with my daughter, cycling the streets of Sydney’s Inner West, shooting hoops, or flipping through vinyl. I also like to chill with our cat Tycho, who, thankfully, is also a Golden State Warriors fan.
Team leader
Whether it’s facilitating a day long workshop or operating in a leadership position over long periods of time, I thoroughly enjoy the process of collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams and the opportunities within leadership to create space for people around me to succeed.
Experience strategy
I create the potential for great experiences for businesses and their customers by discovering valuable insights, communicating plans and processes and identifying possibilities not yet explored to drive competitive advantage.
User research
An advocate for ‘jobs to be done’ profiles, I use qualitative and quantitative user research to develop audience understanding and empathy as profile information, condensed into actionable ideas.
Journey mapping
Visually capturing research as steps that map a current customer journey, allows challenges to be identified and opportunities for improvement to be addressed. With a diverse multi-disciplinary background and as a strong conceptual thinker, I bring a depth of experience envisioning ideal customer journeys that maximise identified opportunities.
Information architecture
I craft high quality digital experiences through validation to marry information that is clear and approachable together with language and pathways that align to the priorities of users.
Design
I have a long history in creating effective designs that combine business goals with user needs into enjoyable, meaningful experiences. In organising information through design, I test interactions, messaging and user understanding through practical rounds of iterative revisions until the brief is achieved.
User testing
Putting designs in the hands of users is the single best way to evolve towards a successful product or experience and understand how it aligns to their behaviours and needs. Gathering iterative feedback from users through rapid prototyping and user testing ensures the people I’m designing for are at the centre of my design process.
Awards
75 out of 100
Praise or Haze Trump
Public Vote Shortlist
70% Yes Vote – Qantas Points Destination
Highly Commended
Art Direction
Digital Website & Microsites
Mobile Marketing (x2)
UX, Interface & Navigation Design (x3)
Customer Retention Campaign
Gold – Retail & Direct Sales
Silver – eCommerce Experience
Bronze – Campaign Brand Experience
Silver – Fairfax World’s Best Fielder – Mar ’15
Bronze – Optus Business Olympics – Nov ’16
Bronze – Qantas Points Destination – Jul ’15
Honorable Mention
Mobile Excellence Award
Praise or Haze Trump
Official Public Vote Award for Innovation
Best UI Design and Best UX Design
Special Kudos Award
CSSDA crew and judges
Winner
Best Digital Advertising or Communication (x2)
Best Website or Online Service
Winner
Consumer retention / Loyalty marketing campaign
Qantas Points Destination
2016
Winner
Employee of the year
WiTH Collective
2013