I’m Steven Watts. A user experience designer, interface designer, and visual designer based on Wadawurrung Country and Wurundjeri Country, Torquay and Melbourne, AU.

I’m more inspired and excited by design than ever — with the challenges of tackling complex and ambiguous problems using design thinking and user-centred design in an era of rapid change, data, IoT, AR and AI. It’s a broad horizon!

Advocating for the user, keeping a “beginner’s mind” and constantly challenging assumptions. Collaborating with, and learning from great people, and improving the experience of others. The role of a designer continues to get better and better.

Complex to simple.

Expertise.

  • User experience (UX) design

  • User interface (UI) design

  • Front end development

  • Working knowledge of back-end and DevOps

  • Visual brand design

  • Illustration

  • Team management

  • Project delivery

Skills.

  • Discovery and research

  • Design thinking

  • User and UI flows, journey maps

  • Prototypes, user and usability testing

  • Design guidelines and DLS

  • Agile ways of working

  • Remote team management

  • Requirements gathering

  • Accessibility

Toolkit.

  • Sketch, Figma

  • InVision, Gallery

  • Miro

  • Principle, Flash

  • Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign

  • Excel, Word, Google Suite

  • Asana, Basecamp

  • Bitbucket and Github

  • HTML and CSS, Material Design and Flutter, Bootstrap, Foundation

Platforms.

  • Nationbuilder Expert and Architect

  • Silverstripe Professional Partner

  • Shopify Partner

  • Amazon Web Services

  • Cloudflare

Over the past two decades I’ve worked with a variety of non-profits, news and media organisations, arts and community organisations, festivals and events, start-ups, and agencies:

Sydney Opera House, St Jerome’s Laneway Festival, Falls Festival, The Big Design Market, Bob Brown Foundation, Barnardos, Sea Shepherd, Environment Victoria, Reprieve, GPY&R, Wunderman, SouthSouthWest, News.com.au, CareerOne, Realestate.com.au, FoxSports, CarsGuide, TrueLocal, Daily Telegraph, Courier Mail, NineMSN, MyHome, Panasonic, Telstra, Microsoft, Avis, Ford, Origin Energy, Caltex, and many more!