I design things
people move through.

I came to design through architecture — four years of it at the University of Nottingham. What it gave me has lasted: a real foundation in how design works, and the patience to hold a large, messy system in my head and still make clear decisions inside it.

What it couldn’t give me was pace. Buildings answer back in years, and I need the loop to close fast enough to feel it. That mismatch is really why I moved to HCI — the same instinct for how people move through something, on the iteration speed of software. It wasn’t a hard call: career, temperament, and the work that actually energizes me all pointed the same way.

Outside of that, I’m curious to a fault, and most of it finds its way back into design. On a ride I catch myself sketching what a genuinely useful cycling HUD on smart glasses would surface, and when. Watching Formula 1, I’m half in the race and half wondering why a double-wishbone setup trades the way it does, or how ground effect rewards an entirely different car. That habit of wandering into a field and mapping it fast — the line my advisors kept circling in their references — is the engine behind the work above. And now that AI has dropped the cost of building, that’s the part I find most exciting: front-end or back-end, software or hardware, HCI gives me the footing to take an idea and just start. The garage is where that happens.