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Lead product designer at Xero, and a builder.

For over a decade, I’ve designed financial systems, compliance tools, and daily workflows used by millions of small businesses.

Selected Work

I’ve been designing products for over a decade. The last eight on finance tools for small businesses.

  1. Xero

    2021 – present

    Lead product designer. I lead design on payments and bill workflows across three markets, and set the strategy for AI document capture.

  2. Hubdoc

    2018 – 2021

    Sr. product designer. I owned design end to end: I rebuilt the mobile app, modernized the web app, and led research.

  3. Sprout

    2016 – 2018

    Sr. product designer. I was a senior designer on a consumer wellness platform.

How I lead

I do my best work before the problem is fully formed. I start by questioning the brief: is this the right thing to build, and in the right order? Then I get the team to agree on a few principles before anyone draws a screen.

I write my reasoning down so others can challenge it, build on it, and carry it on without me. If a decision only holds while I'm in the room, I haven't finished it.

Tools I've built for the team. Both are published for the wider design org.

Design crit roster. Picks who presents at our fortnightly crit so everyone gets a fair turn. It asks them on Slack, handles the no’s, and sets up the session, so my manager doesn’t run it by hand.

Weekly wrap. Pulls a designer’s week from Slack, Confluence, GitHub, Figma, calendars and meeting notes, and writes it up in their own voice. Leads can skim it, and at review time Claude can read the year back.

Let's build something
amazing together.