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Product and website design masterclasses from one of the best-known digital designers

Product and website design masterclasses

I’m a well-known designer and I’ve taught art direction, design, and development across Australia, Europe, and North America. I’ve run workshops in Cameroon at the Congo Basin Institute, and taught in-house design teams in Russia.

I often find inspiration for my designs outside the web, which gives me a fresh perspective that I bring to every project. My knowledge of modern web technologies helps me deliver designs that are a world away from common generic templates.

Over the past 25 years, I’ve worked with clients worldwide. I’ve designed e-commerce websites for Disney, WWF, and numerous small businesses. Greenpeace and WWF came to me when they needed help improving their online donations. Sunlife did the same when they needed a design system for digital and print marketing. I worked with the Home Office on a website for Hillsborough Independent Panel, designed an anti-smoking campaign for Senydd Cymru, and a website for Open University which encourages young Welsh people to be changemakers.

I’ve worked with numerous councils and dozens of businesses in the manufacturing and service industries. I worked in Australia with Ansarada to develop their brand and visual identity. I’ve also worked in Switzerland for ISO and WIPO and in Germany for SAP. For five years, I led the product design team at Nozomi Networks.

Past workshops

  Topic Event Location Date
2019 Art Direction for the Web Contao Conference Duisburg, Germany Oct 9
2016 Designing and Developing Imaginative Layouts Directions Sydney, Australia Nov 9
Designing and Developing Imaginative Layouts Mixin Perth, Australia Oct 27
2015 CSS3 For Responsive Web Design Smashing Conference Barcelona, Spain Oct 19
CSS3 For Responsive Web Design Smashing Conference New York, USA Jun 15
CSS3 For Responsive Web Design Smashing Conference Santa Monica, USA Apr 27
CSS3 For Responsive Web Design Australian lecture tour Perth, Australia Mar 31
CSS3 For Responsive Web Design Australian lecture tour Melbourne, Australia Mar 25
CSS3 For Responsive Web Design Respond Sydney, Australia Mar 20
2014 CSS3 For Responsive Web Design IGM Oslo, Norway Dec 4
CSS3 For Responsive Web Design Beyond Tellerrand Berlin, Germany Nov 3
CSS3 For Responsive Web Design The Web Is… Cardiff, UK Oct 29
CSS3 For Responsive Web Design Smashing Conference Oxford, UK Mar 20
2013 CSS3 For Responsive Web Design Handheld Conference Cardiff, UK Nov 27
CSS3 For Responsive Web Design Smashing Magazine Freiburg, Germany Jun 24
Fashionably flexible responsive web design Japan workshop tour Tokyo, Japan Apr 6
Fashionably flexible responsive web design New Adventures in Web Design Nottingham, UK Jan 23
2012 Fashionably flexible responsive web design Smashing Conference Freiburg, Germany Sep 19
Fashionably flexible responsive web design Smashing Conference Freiburg, Germany Sep 16
Fashionably flexible responsive web design Australian lecture tour Brisbane, Australia Feb 28
Fashionably flexible responsive web design Australian lecture tour Sydney, Australia Feb 24
Fashionably flexible responsive web design Australian lecture tour Melbourne, Australia Feb 17
Fashionably flexible responsive web design Australian lecture tour Perth, Australia Feb 14
2011 Hardboiled Web Design Hardboiled Web Design book tour Manchester, UK Oct 28
Hardboiled Web Design Hardboiled Web Design book tour London, UK May 25
Hardboiled Web Design Hardboiled Web Design book tour Edinburgh, UK Apr 22
Hardboiled Web Design Hardboiled Web Design book tour Birmingham, UK Feb 25
2010 Advanced CSS Styling Fronteers Amsterdam, Netherlands Oct 7
jQuery for Designers with Remy Sharp London, UK May 14
Designing for Mobile with CSS3 with Dan Rubin Birmingham, UK Apr 1
2009 Advanced CSS Styling Web Directions East Tokyo, Japan Nov 11
Advanced CSS Styling For A Beautiful Web Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK Oct 30
Advanced CSS Styling For A Beautiful Web Birmingham, UK Sep 25
Visual Web Design Masterclass Web Directions South Sydney, Australia Apr 24
Visual Web Design Masterclass Web Directions South Canberra, Australia Apr 22
Visual Web Design Masterclass Web Directions South Melbourne, Australia Apr 20
2008 Visual Web Design Masterclass For A Beautiful Web London, UK Dec 1
Transcending CSS Carson Workshops London, UK May 14
Designing With Microformats Future of Web Design London, UK Apr 18
Web Directions North With Aaron Gustafson Vancouver, Canada Jan 30
2007 Transcending CSS Workshops For Web People Leicester, UK Nov 15
Transcending CSS Voices That Matter San Francisco, USA Oct 22
Transcending CSS Web Directions South Sydney, Australia Sep 25
2006 CSS for Developers Carson Workshops London, UK Oct 19
Creating Inspired Designs Fundamentos Web Oviedo, Spain Oct 4
Extreme Standards Web Directions South Sydney, Australia Sep 26
2005 CSS for Designers Carson Workshops London, UK Nov 17
WOW Web Design and Project Management Conference   Cupertino, USA Sep 16

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