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UX Researcher · Human Factors Engineer
Designing empowering digital experiences, driven by people.
A decade across academic HCI, socially impactful design, and safety-critical engineering — using participatory, user-centred methods to build systems that are equitable, intuitive, and grounded in real life.
10+
Years in research & practice
20+
Peer-reviewed publications
11
Featured case studies
A little about me
I treat design as a situated, reflective process — shaped by people, systems, and context.
I'm a UX researcher and human factors specialist with experience spanning academic HCI and applied engineering. My work bridges research and practice — from children's digital health and participatory design with gorillas, to large-scale engineered systems involving human-machine interfaces.
Depending on the challenge, I shift roles: advocating for user-centred practice, enabling under-represented groups to become user-leaders, or deliberately surfacing bias to challenge inherited assumptions. Each project is an attempt to use design not just to solve problems, but to ask better questions.
What I do
My UX skills
Research
Understanding & insight
- Ethnography, interviews, workshop & focus-group facilitation
- Cultural probes & design fiction
- Usability & A/B testing, observation, surveys
- Context analysis, journey mapping, thematic analysis
- Descriptive & inferential statistics
NVivoQualtricsSPSSMaze
Design
Methods & making
- User-centred, participatory & co-design
- Artefact-driven & socially responsible design
- Paper, foam-board & lo-fi prototyping
- Wireframing, 3D modelling, artefact generation
- Motivational theory applied to engagement
FigmaIllustratorPhotoshopInDesign
Engineering
Human factors & delivery
- Functional & hierarchical task analysis
- RAOC workshops & scenario-led assessments
- HF requirements authoring & spatial review
- Prototyping with code for realistic testing
JavaScriptPythonJavaHTML / CSSSQL
Selected case studies
My featured projects
From playful, participatory co-design to UX within large-scale engineering programmes — each project explores how design can centre real human needs.
Social care · Children
trove
A digital and physical memory box for looked-after and adopted children.
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Digital health
OKKO Space Academy
A mobile game to diagnose and monitor childhood amblyopia.
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Health · Play
The Sugargotchi
An embodied digital pet to gamify awareness of sugar consumption.
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Animal-computer interaction
Gorilla Game Lab
Digital and tangible playable interfaces to improve the welfare of zoo-housed gorillas.
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Digital health
SpaceVision
A participatory approach to the evaluation and child-centred redesign of a game for diagnosing children's eye disease.
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Children · Exergaming
Critter Jam
A location-aware mobile exergame to promote children's physical activity.
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Design fiction · VR ethics
VR100
Knowledge exchange between research and immersive theatre: using design fiction to explore VR ethics.
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Education · Methods
ZooDesign
A novel design method to facilitate children's education at zoos.
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Ageing · Co-design
Connecting Through Culture
Co-designing digital products to support healthy ageing.
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EdTech
Data education in schools
UX and design strategy to support live-streamed and interactive educational experiences.
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Children · Cognition
BrainQuest
A mobile exergame to promote children's cognitive and emotional regulatory abilities.
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My upcoming publications
In press · CSCW
An Intersectional Lifecourse Lens and Participatory Methods as Foundations for Co-Designing with and for Minoritised Older Adults
In press
Taking care of ageing futures: Reflections on a situated, relational and care-full praxis of co-design with older adults
Recognition
My awards
2021
Post-Doctoral Research Award
School of Computer Science, University of Bristol
2021
Author Honourable Mention Award
CHI PLAY Conference
2018
Author Honourable Mention Award
Interaction Design & Children Conference
2018
Best Presentation Award
Animal-Computer Interaction Conference
2013
Cooper-Walker Engineering Prize — BSc Hons Dissertation of the Year
Heriot-Watt University