// About
Designer, developer and part-time tutor.
Nine years of making things for small teams, and teaching the next lot how to test them.
readme.md — about wren
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I make products people can use on the first try, and I build them so your team can keep going without me.
I studied graphic design in Bristol, then spent two years making identities and packaging for local makers. Then I learned to code, because every website I designed was built by someone else, slightly differently, and I wanted to see it through.
Since then I’ve worked in agencies, in a travel-software company, and on my own. The pattern is the same everywhere. The projects that go well start with listening, move quickly to something people can touch, and end with a handover the team is glad to have.
Outside work I teach interaction design two days a week, sketch on trains, and look after a very old bicycle. I’m happiest when a client tells me their team stopped needing to ask what a screen does.
Bristol, UK
01 Experience
Where I’ve worked and taught.
history — experience
6 entries
Lead designer
Studio Plume
Senior product designer
Harbourline Software
Designer and front-end developer
Kestrel & Co
Freelance designer
Independent
Part-time tutor, interaction design
West Country School of Art
BA Graphic Design
West Country School of Art
6 entries
02 How I work
Three habits I won’t drop.
sketch-first.txt
Sketch first
Ten rough ideas on paper cost nothing. I show you all of them, then we choose two to test.
test-with-people.txt
Test with people
Five real users, one afternoon. Whatever they trip over is what we fix first.
leave-it-editable.txt
Leave it editable
Every site ships with a CMS and a short guide, so you never need to call me to change a headline.
03 Toolkit
The skills behind the work.
applications
8 items
8 skills
04 Track record
Nine years, in numbers.
activity monitor — wren
all time
Years practising
9
of 10 planned
Projects shipped
42
since 2017
Teams worked with
31
across 6 countries
Clients who came back
96%
hired me again
Figures from client projects 2017 to 2026
05 Kind words
What clients say afterwards.
messages — kind words
6 messages
Wren rewrote our product pages around how people actually choose coffee. Our repeat orders went up and my inbox went quiet.
Priya Nandakumar
Fernhill Roasters
She sat in on our booking calls before drawing anything. That is why the flow works, and why our developers trusted it.
Tomas Berglund
Northbound Tours
Wren interviewed twenty-one stallholders in their slowest hour. Nobody else had asked them anything.
Aisha Mbeki
Quay Street Market
The site moves the way our buildings feel: slowly and in order. Clients mention it in the first meeting.
Daniel Kirkwood
Marlow & Finch Architects
She made the design system a shared project, not a handover. Engineers use it because they helped build it.
Hannah Osei
Tidepool Ocean Data
Enquiries got better overnight. People now arrive knowing the wood, the wait and roughly the cost.
Leo Marchetti
Oak & Ember Furniture
6 conversations
// next step
Want to work together?
Tell me what you’re building. I reply within one working day.