Projects

Over the years I've been lucky enough for my work to align with my values.

Alongside my entrepreneurship I am primarily a designer and full-stack developer. Many people know me from the world of technology education, but my professional interests lie in crypto/socioeconomics, infosec/AI, and campaign/election technology.

I also enjoy a number of projects away from the screen.

2020/21

Moving towards joy

Hexagons

Hexagons is an assessment tool designed for learners with SEND and the professionals who support them. I worked closely with the team at TASMAT to develop the app via a user-centred design process with test-driven development, producing an accessible, secure, multi-platform web app.

Visit Hexagons View GitHub
Open Democracy: Comment Incentives

This project, funded by Grant for the Web, seeks to incentivise high quality comments on digital journalism using the new Web Monetization draft web standard specification.

View the live project
Entre-purrrr-neurship

You protect your computer from threats you can't see. Now's the time to protect it from those you can CUDDLE. Cutting-edge AI that definitely won't replace you.

Download KeyPaws View GitHub
Learning to draw

This year I am learning to draw as I'd love to be a better illustrator and it's a beautifully meditative thing to do and gets me away from the screen. I am learning with the help of a painting and drawing course with the London Art College and a fantastic book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. So far I'm really enjoying it and will aim to post regular updates here.
Mindfulpuss

Mindfulpuss is an experimental podcast that encourages you to live life in the meow.

Be more cat
Ask EveryDoctor

At the height of the pandemic I developed a survey tool for campaigning organisation EveryDoctor to track PPE in the NHS.

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Pembroke House

Working with The Small Axe and their designer Rosalba Ellis, I built a fully customisable website for Pembroke House, a centre for social action and residential community in Walworth.

Visit Pembroke House
Automating myself

All web projects share the same foundations. JAMstack Starter condenses my sixteen years of experience building accessible and privacy-friendly websites and apps into an open-source starter template to robustly jumpstart new projects.

View example site Fork on GitHub
Gwen Hustwit

Made possible by JAMstack Starter, Gwen's affordable, accessible website—fully editable and customisable via a CMS—was put together in a single day of collaboration in Crystal Palace.

Visit Gwen's site

2016-19

Developing new interests

Landscape gardening

In 2019 I moved into a garden flat in Crystal Palace with a weed-filled and overgrown garden. Now half the lawn is a wild-flower meadow, and new beds provide pollen for bees and food for our pot.
Compass

Collaborating with The Small Axe designer Rosalba Ellis I developed a new website for the centre-left thinktank Compass.

Join Compass
Democracy Club's Election Widget

Working in a distributed team well before it was trendy, I collaborated with the team at Democracy Club to develop a fully unit-tested, accessible polling station finder and election information widget in time for the 2019 election.

Check out the widget View source code
Can I Vote?

Collaborating with Small Axe designer Rosalba Ellis, Can I Vote highlighted to Commonwealth citizens that they were eligible to vote in the 2019 General Election and the 2021 local elections.

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CommitMe

CommitMe was an innovative way to engage individuals and institutions on climate change, using cryptoeconomic incentives. Our MVP won an award at 2018's Future of Blockchain competition.

View the MVP
Gifteth

Working as part of 'full-stack crypto-economic production studio' Cryptical Studios, Gifteth was an experimental way of sending cryptocurrency with the goal of increasing adoption of Ethereum.

View the MVP
Verto

I led a skunkworks team of designers, developers, researchers, copywriters and influencers to create Verto, a campaigning tool that weaves together survey and story telling via short interactive video articles that educate, provoke and inspire.

Play Verto
Co-founder: Blox

Blox was a social network for buildings enabling communities to thrive and alternative socioeconomic systems to flourish. We were incubated by the Finance Innovation Lab's Financial Health Fellowship.

Financial Health Fellowship
Head of Technology @ Everledger

I oversaw the design and development and delivery of the Everledger Core, a suite of services, APIs and front-end frameworks that would work with any given blockchain architecture. I was also responsible for Everledger's Information Security,

Visit Everledger
Progressive Alliance

For the 2017 election I joined Compass to help them launch the Progressive Alliance. We delivered the UK's first tactical voting tool of the 2017 General Election, as well as a host of other innovations. Beyond the screen I helped run a Barnstorm in Carlisle.

View at CHD
The Other

With long-time collaborator Clarisse O'Dell we designed and built a set of 'robot lights' for Rebecca Evans' contemporary dance The Other.

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Lead Lecturer @ Ada, National College for Digital Skills

In 2018 Ada needed someone to come in and finesse the design and delivery of their Software Developer and Data Analyst courses for apprentices from organisations including Google, Facebook and Hackney Council.

Visit Ada
Bridge at Waterloo: Digital Futures

Climaxing in a performance of Rebecca Evans' contemporary dance David at the Southbank Centre, I led a team of novices who learnt how to code by building an app that let the audience control the performance using their phones.

Visit the project

2011-15

Full-time technology education

Co-founder @ Decoded

I was CTO and Head of Innovation at Decoded, a global technology education company that has taught hundreds of thousands of people key digital skills.

Visit Decoded

2009-11

Learning the ropes

Creative Director @ .web{Devign}

.web{devign} was run as a co-op and there were three of us in the studio by the time I went full-time on Decoded in 2011. We built standards-compliant, accessible websites for charities, personalities and small businesses.

Visit .web{devign} on the Wayback Machine

2020/21

Moving towards joy

Hexagons

Entre-purrrr-neurship

Automating myself

2016-19

Developing new interests

Can I Vote?

Co-founder: Blox

The Other

2011-15

Full-time technology education

Co-founder @ Decoded

2009-11

Learning the ropes

Creative Director @ .web{Devign}