Design Leader · Conference Speaker · Founder
I design and build digital tools that communities need but the market won’t make: accessibility auditors, LGBTQ+ knowledge platforms, sailing club infrastructure. After two decades in UX and service design, I now work independently at the intersection of inclusive design and AI, turning strategy into shipped products.
Alongside that: apps reaching 50 million people, conference papers on AI and cultural heritage, writing published by Towards AI and the British Psychological Society, and a habit of founding communities and platforms that outlast everything else.
BSc Psychology · MSc Human–Computer Interaction · Diploma in Service Design · Certificate in AI Ethics
London Raiders Softball Club
Founded and grew one of the largest LGBT softball clubs in the world.
Back-Pocket Guide to Gay & Lesbian London
A fold-out pocket map of gay and lesbian London, from Soho to Covent Garden.
LGBT History Project
The UK’s largest volunteer-edited encyclopaedia of LGBTQ+ history.
Gay Games London 2018 Bid
Founder and chair of London’s bid to host the Games at the Olympic Park.
Capgemini UX Professional Community
Founder. More than 1,500 members, and an annual conference now in its sixth year.
Design
Design leadership at programme scale: teams, standards, and work that holds.
Apps
Location-aware apps for real places, built on the Nearmark platform.
UX & Accessibility
WCAG in practice, plus original research into where contrast rules fail.
Art & Photography
Painting and photography, stocked with Alamy, Adobe Stock and Getty.
Writing
Essays on AI, consciousness, accessibility and the practice of design.
Founder · Platform owner · Community lead · Agentic AI
A national LGBTQ+ heritage archive built and maintained by volunteers. 50 million visitors. Recognised with a Prime Minister’s Points of Light Award. Now home to Nearmark, a GPS-based heritage walking tour platform.
Open-source · GPS · Heritage · iOS · Android · White-label
An open-source platform that gives any walkable place its own location-aware app: a heritage trail, an arts walk, a pub crawl. Built on Vue 3, Supabase and Leaflet. EU-hosted, no API key billing. Currently live as the Tollesbury Arts Trail and LGBT Heritage App.
Available for keynotes, panels and workshops on enterprise UX at scale, AI ethics and design accountability, and building digital products without a team or budget.
Medium · May 2026
‘What is consciousness really for?’
Part one. What consciousness does, functionally and evolutionarily, and why that matters now.
Towards AI · May 2026
‘Can AI Become Conscious?’
Part two. What it would mean for an AI system to satisfy a functional account of consciousness.
Medium · June 2026
‘The Real Danger Isn’t Conscious AI, it’s AI Without Consciousness’
Part three. The risk of systems that cannot model their own impact on the world.
Towards AI · July 2026
‘Meta’s AI keeps scraping my community website, and I get charged £25 a month for the privilege’
Part one. How the AI industry externalises its infrastructure costs onto the communities it extracts from.
Medium · August 2026
‘The internet has no police. I realised, when I was under attack.’
Part two. What happens when a bot army takes down a volunteer-run site and you look for someone to call.
Medium · August 2026
‘Bots took The Numbers offline after thirty years’
Part three. Nine out of ten visitors to the box-office database were bots. It came back smaller.
Medium · August 2026
‘The Mac Experience at Work Just Died. Here Is the Error Code.’
Part one. Apple’s retreat from the workplace, told through a single error code.
Medium · September 2026
‘Apple Has a Plan for Mail. It Arrives After the Deadline.’
Part two. Apple commits to Microsoft Graph, but macOS 27 shipped without it and the deadline is 1 October.
Medium · October 2026
‘New Outlook Has More Features Than Mail. It Feels Like Fewer.’
Part three. The one not about the deadline: twelve things on screen at once, and who pays for that.
