I joined to fix one annoying bug: the invoice editor jumped whenever you typed a long line item. The honest fix was a rebuild, so I did it in small pieces behind a flag while everyone kept sending invoices. A first invoice now takes four minutes instead of eleven.

I also ran the component library fourteen engineers shipped with, and wrote the motion rules, including the one that lets you switch motion off. In October the platform team was restructured out of existence. The editor is still fine. I checked.

Small team, big remit. I designed and built most of what new users met first: onboarding, the first deposit, and the charts that show your savings growing at a realistic pace. Onboarding went from five screens to two, and legal still signed it off. The charts got popular enough that we gave them away.

Twenty-two websites for theatres, galleries and two festivals, most of them still running on a CMS I would now write differently. I started the studio’s accessibility checklist after someone couldn’t buy a theatre ticket with a screen reader. That should never happen, and at our studio it stopped.

Three years of typography and one year of teaching myself JavaScript at 2am. My degree show piece set a type specimen from each visitor’s name. It crashed on opening night, which taught me more than the dissertation did.