Hello I’m Cathy a Designer, Developer and Blogger from Cheshire.

I am a user experience designer with over 12 years industry experience. I am passionate about accessibility, front end architecture, performance and user centered design. I work with CSS (including Sass and PostCSS), HTML and JavaScript as well as a sketch pad, some post-it notes and my favourite pens.

After completing a three year fine art course in 2004 I went on to gain a degree in product design and development from the University of Salford in 2007. I have since worked across a range of disciplines in the digital industry including, Interaction Design, Service Design, UX Design, User Research and Front End Development.

I am currently employed by Defra as a senior Interaction and Service Designer, I work with research insights and data to design end to end services that are engaging, accessible and easy to navigate. I work across the full project lifecycle, from research, discovery and ideation through to iterative design and testing.

Alongside project work I am also an active menber of the design comunity of practice as well as GDS trained service assesor. I recently became a member of the first design system working group, helping to maintain standards whilst promoting inclusivity.

Over the years I have been fortunate enough to work on a number of exciting digital projects for well-known companies and agencies including…

• Defra
• Environment Agency
• Barclays
• Nintendo
• Sainsbury’s
• EE
• AO.com
• Tropic Skincare
• GetTheLabel.com
• My Protein
• Elizabeth Arden
• Zavvi

As well as the articles on this site I have also written articles for A List Apart, articles for Sitepoint, blog posts on Medium and tutorials for Mr Frontend.

Examples of my code can be found in my Github open source projects or in Codepen demonstrations.