EXPERIENCE DESIGN

STRATEGY

SERVICE DESIGN

EXPERIENCE DESIGN STRATEGY SERVICE DESIGN

Crafting meaningful relationships between people and services through insight-led strategy and design.

Experience Strategist and Designer

With experience both agency and client-side, I guide cross-functional teams to deliver thoughtful, effective and inclusive design solutions. I've been fortunate to work across a wide range of sectors - covering global organisations to some of Australia’s most iconic brands.

Currently based in Melbourne, Australia and relocating to London in late 2025.

Experience Design Director

Howatson+Company, 2025 - present


Associate Experience Design Director


Lead Experience Designer

AKQA, 2021

As a diverse practitioner, I love working across all phases of design - bridging creativity, craft, execution and measurement.

Areas of craft

  • Areas of practice include:

    • Strategic experience visioning

    • Business + brand alignment

    • Customer journey mapping (high-level/lifecycle)

    • Insight synthesis (combining research, business + market intelligence)

    • Persona development (for strategic alignment)

    • Omnichannel experience planning

    • Opportunity/gap identification

    • Roadmapping + prioritisation frameworks

    • Measurement strategy (CX/UX metrics + KPIs)

    • Facilitation with executive stakeholders

    • Innovation + value proposition strategy

    • Ecosystem mapping

    • Competitive/market benchmarking

  • Areas of practice include:

    • Service blueprinting (frontstage/backstage)

    • Journey mapping (current and future state - detailed, operational focus)

    • Process mapping & systems design

    • Stakeholder & ecosystem mapping

    • Touchpoint orchestration

    • Co-design and participatory workshops

    • Service prototyping + validation

    • Operational model design

    • Roles + responsibility mapping (RACI)

    • Service governance integration

    • Readiness assessment + implementation strategy

    • Cross-functional collaboration

    • Policy, tech + org alignment for service execution

  • Areas of practice include:

    • Interaction design (IxD)

    • Information architecture (IA)

    • Wireframing + prototyping (low to high fidelity)

    • Visual/UI design (including typography, layout + visual hierarchies)

    • Design systems + component libraries

    • Motion + micro-interaction design

    • Accessibility / inclusive design (WCAG compliance)

    • UX writing / content design for interfaces

    • Usability heuristics evaluations

    • Handoff for development

    • Agile design process + iteration cycles

  • Areas of practice include:

    • Research planning + methodology selection

    • Participant recruitment + screening

    • Interviews, contextual inquiry + ethnography

    • Usability testing (moderated/unmoderated)

    • Diary studies + fieldwork

    • Surveys + quantitative data collection

    • Journey + empathy mapping

    • Data synthesis + insight generation

    • Concept validation + desirability testing

    • Task analysis

    • Behavioural segmentation

    • Research reporting + storytelling

    • Knowledge management (ResearchOps)