About


Hi! I’m Steve, a Product Design Lead based in sunny Brisbane, Australia. I love collaborating with teams to create top-notch customer experiences.

For the past 12 years, I’ve been part of the remote workforce at Squiz, working with cross-functional teams to design tools that help people and organizations worldwide manage and publish web content.

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During this time, I’ve had the pleasure of designing product solutions that have benefited awesome clients like Monash University, The Victoria and Albert Museum, Queensland Government, Ciena, and New York University, along with many others across Australia 🇦🇺, New Zealand 🇳🇿, the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 and the United States 🇺🇸.

A photo of Steve!

I’m passionate about every aspect of the product design process and have built a diverse skill set that allows me to support my team throughout the entire journey. From brainstorming ideas to fine-tuning designs and diving into the code base, I enjoy taking on new challenges, learning from customer feedback and improving our solutions along the way.

In my day-to-day work as Product Design Lead, I strive to:

Over the years, I’ve worked closely with both local and remote design and development teams. At Squiz, we’ve embraced Agile practices for the past six years. Before joining Squiz, I gained valuable experience collaborating with Government and Higher Education teams, contributing to projects in various team setups.

Employment History

Squiz
2012 - Current

  • Product Design Lead

  • Senior Product Designer

  • Product Designer

Department of Justice & Attorney General
2010 - 2011

  • Web Content Specialist

Queensland University of Technology
2004 - 2010

  • Senior Project Officer

  • Peer Tutor (Communication Design)

  • Designer and Developer

Education and Training

Griffith University
2011

Master of Digital Design


Queensland University of Technology
2007

Bachelor of Creative Industries
(Interaction Design and Visual Arts)


AJ&Smart
2021

Design Sprint Masterclass


RMIT Online
2020

Project Managment -
Future Skills Short Course


IDEOU
2019

Foundations in Design Thinking


ICAgile
2019

Agile Foundations

Expert in

Accessibility
Agile
Design Leadership
Design Sprints
Design Systems
Design Thinking
Facilitation
User Experience
User Interface Design
UX Research

Applications and Tools

Adobe Creative Cloud
Axure RP
Dovetail
Figma
Git
Heap
HTML & CSS
Jira
Principle
Mural
Optimal Workshop
ZeroHeight