About

I transform businesses & realise the full potential of new technologies through design

I enable companies to transform their business through design, delivering groundbreaking products, forging a far deeper connection with their customers, and seeing significant financial, brand and reputational jumps as a result.

I foster organisational cultures that are creative, design-literate and understand their customers deeply, making breakthrough innovation and beloved products, part of the fabric of the company.

I’ve an exceptional track record of delivering ambitious, pioneering digital products and services, and setting their creators up to keep delivering better for years to come.

Digital product designer turned design leader

With twenty years’ experience as a designer, I know how to craft beautiful, intuitive and successful digital products and services, and I continue to keep my design skills sharp.

Having turned design leader, I this wealth of experience helps me to establish design process and best practice, mentor and develop my team, and always keep an eye on craft and quality.

I turn promising new technologies into essential, beloved products

With my help, companies can make that leap from the lab to real products in customers’ hands. I identify business potential, craft a clear product vision and guide teams through the uncertain process of designing, building and delivering something customers love.

I nurture design-mature, customer-centric organisations

In all my senior roles, I’ve taught the organisations I work for how to better understand their customers, imagine bigger and better products and get more our of design practice.
I establish ways of working, design standards, train and grow teams and foster a culture of creativity and quality.

I build roads to the future with exciting, inspiring product visions & direction

I find the untapped potential in customer experience and create new visions of the future - ambitious, inspiring reinventions or entirely new products that entire companies can get behind. Then I show teams how to achieve that vision step by step, and stick around to ensure it’s fulfilled.

Complex, specialist applications become intelligent, effortless experiences

Complex and specialist products and digital services are no problem. I’ve many years delivering specialist B2B products, reinventing old products to stay ahead of the competition, and streamlining experiences to better work for customers. Great design makes a difference, no matter how complex the problem.

“Matt is an incredibly talented designer that I’ve had the pleasure of working with on a few projects. Great in front of clients, very thorough in approach and superb at coming up with the UX, concepts and the execution of solutions that simplify complicated problems. In fact there’s not much Matt isn’t good at.”

Ant Ludlow, VP Head of Design, Talos

I lead & grow influential design teams that are central to business success

I’ve hired, grown, managed and led design teams across agency, in-house and start-up businesses. I find exceptional designers and researchers and give them an environment where they can flourish. My teams quickly become the driving force behind creative culture change in their companies, and lead the way with clarity on where we’re going and how we’ll get there.

I share my expertise and develop new talent through mentoring, writing & speaking

I believe in giving back to the design community and helping new talent develop. I regularly give talks on cutting-edge design such as spatial and gestural interfaces. I mentor aspiring designers from around the world, write on the latest developments in the industry, and run courses via LinkedIn Learning and Springboard.