Things I've done
UX Designer for Inamo, and its on-table interactive ordering experience, voted 'Best Restaurant in London' by Time Out readers
UX/Design Consultant to Flook, a location-explorer iPhone app, which
won 'Best User Experience' at the Mobile Premier Awards, Barcelona. (It was also 'Staff Pick' on both the US and UK Apple store)
UX/Design Consultant to Zeebox, a TV-accompaniment iPad app, which Apple made their AppStore 'App of the Week'
Designer and Project Leader for PsiWin, a file manager & connectivity suite, which won 'Best UK Product' at Ziff-Davis Europe's "Software Excellence Awards"
Sole Software Designer (Product/UX) for Psion PDAs and for the original Symbian OS, a mobile platform so well-received that the world's mobile industry came together and made it the world smartphone standard for the next 10 years.
Nowadays, I mainly help out at Joy of Plants
Ever taken over the world? ;)
Not many people can say they were the sole designer of a world-conquering mobile OS…(!) But I was the sole designer of Psion's Symbian OS, and the functionality and UI of the whole platform was my job (just as I was sole designer on a decade of previous Psion PDAs).
In 1998, shortly after the release of this Symbian OS platform, the whole mobile world (Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola, Panasonic) came together to standardise on it, for the next decade.
I've since designed a huge range of apps, UIs, and devices, for dozens of clients of all sizes.
Patent work
I wrote my first patent while still at Symbian. Since leaving there:
— I have filed two patent applications of my own, one hardware and one software — both patents were granted and both sold
— I've been contracted by two companies to help them with the patent creation process
— I've conducted half a dozen "prior art" research projects for a variety of law firms, mainly as the User Interface specialist at Hillebrand Consulting Engineers