After graduating with a degree in Graphic Design, I went into the area of e-learning, followed by a career in print: firstly for editorial advertising and then as a designer in the marketing department at Paul Smith. At this role, as well as taking on print briefs, I was being given some small digital briefs, being the only designer in the department with this kind of experience.

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Around this time, with the introduction of smartphones, the need for digital designers was beginning to rocket and the term ‘User Experience’ became a job that you could do. A combination of design, technology and psychology, I was fascinated.

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At this juncture I made a bold jump to a tech start-up and delved deeply into digital user interface and experience design. In a very small company, the other skills I had in areas such as offline marketing, brand and art direction were also appreciated and well utilised, as the company scaled up!

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After a few years, and a huge uptake of digital design and UX skills and experience in SaaS, I accepted an appointment at Nottingham Trent University as a digital designer, where I worked in various cross-functional teams and on multiple products in their vast digital estate.

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Working at pace and scale as a digital designer at NTU gave me a fantastic grounding to become an interaction designer at the Ministry of Justice. I admire the innovation of the Government Design System and enjoy being a small part of the big picture, whilst working in a user-centred way to help a diverse range of people.