Hi I'm Nathaniel, a Senior Product Designer & UX Engineer focused on user-centred innovation for growing companies. I'm a designer who codes. I create innovative, user-focused digital experiences, blending Design Thinking with a deep understanding of web development principles.
A quote has been banging around in my head for a week now: A problem well defined is half solved. Genius. So often you might be tempted to find a fix without first understanding the problem and then waste a lot of time solving the wrong problem. Make sure to clearly state the problem simply […]
Give others the help you never got. Growing up, we face challenges and obstacles, sometimes without the proper guidance or support. This experience is tough, but it also shapes and defines us as people and we carry this emotional response into our future interactions. Looking back, how much better it would have been to have […]
I had an interesting discussion with someone the other day about empathy in UX design which I wanted to expand on. I will use this as a reply to that conversation, as I realise I haven’t fully considered what Empathy is. It seems in UX design empathy gets misunderstood where we have to feel the […]
(I’m reposting this from a comment I made on a Laura Baker post, and there’s a great discussion here on this topic.) The question was: Design often has a low ‘business maturity’ perception. My answer: I was listening to Beyond UX Design podcast (thank you Jeremy Miller!) and heard this – “Design is ‘preventative’ and […]
Design isn’t just designing, it’s a bit more than that.