About Me

I've been designing for as long as I can remember. I taught myself tools like Paint Shop Pro and Photoshop at 13, creating posters, websites, and logos and sharing them through my first portfolio site, Dave's Designs. That early curiosity quickly turned into a career focused on digital projects and apps.

Over the years I've worked across agencies, startups, and publishers, collaborating with teams on complex, content-heavy products and high-profile digital projects for global brands and organisations.

More recently, I've had the privilege of contributing to meaningful not-for-profit work, including Amnesty International. One of these projects, Tear Gas: An Investigation, received a Webby Award, which was pretty cool.

Today, I'm Head of Product Design at Shorthand. I originally joined nearly a decade ago as the founding designer, helping shape the product from its earliest days. After a serendipitous moment with a Shorthand customer, I rejoined to work on a far more mature and widely adopted product, now leading design at a broader, strategic level. My focus now is on product vision, editor usability, and enabling teams to create rich, long-form stories that feel both powerful and effortless to make.