👋 Hi, I’m Paul - a UX Designer and Front End Developer from Liverpool and now based in Oxford.

My journey to this point has been full of twists and turns...

My background is originally in Biochemistry and Biological Science. I did a Masters degree in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology and that was my way in to development. I delved into the web making a website for my band on Geocities! It was hilariously basic. The website, not the band.

I've been a Java backend developer for a pharmaceutical company, a front end dev for a graduate careers site, a webmaster for University of Oxford, built interfaces for computational chemistry apps, Laravel dev and voiceover artist(!) for a digital agency. You name it, I've done it. Within reason.

My UX journey started around 10 years ago when I first opened Balsamiq Mockups and made a mockup of the plan for the SGC website. Since then, I've learned about interaction design, psychology, compromise, diplomacy, and accessibility. I really love being able to combine the design and dev worlds, and learning how each influences the other.

When I’m not doing UX things, I enjoy playing drums and guitar and have turned my drumming practice into my exercise - you can see what I mean at metalwerkout.com. I also like gardening and woodwork, and have to endure the fortunes (or lack of them) of Everton Football Club (Thanks, Dad!). I have a little girl who takes up the vast majority of this free time instead at the moment!