Design Systems Engineer, Web Standards Pedant,
& Professional Cloud Shouter
Twenty years at the border of design and engineering. Still not picking a side.
Where I've worked
Full timeline
Now
Royal London
Principal Design Systems Engineer
Token strategy, design-to-code pipeline, accessibility as a quality baseline.
Previously
AND Digital
Tech Principal – Front-End
Raising the bar for front-end craft and implementation-aware design thinking.
Previously
cinch
Engineering Practice Lead
Driving front-end standards and adoption across engineering.
Previously
Co-op
Lead Front-End Design Engineer
Lead engineer on the design system. Shared components, contribution models.
Journal
All postsYou've Made a Start. Then What?
What sustained accessibility work actually looks like inside an organisation that's trying. Audit findings, regression patterns, and the role nobody quite owns.
What Good Actually Looks Like
The conditions that allow accessibility to take root, what sustains it, and why even the organisations getting it right haven't solved it.
The Organisation That Never Prioritised It
Agencies that scope it out, enterprises that bury it in process, and the leadership layer above design and engineering that's been getting away with indifference for decades.