Ciao!

I’m Buzz ✌🏼 a British/Australian dad, designer and creativity enthusiast working just outside Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺. I love creating fun, weird and useful solutions to problems that don’t have obvious answers.

It’s me. That’s a sign of love 🖕

I am the human in the loop — the person who sits between ambitious ideas, emerging technology and difficult customer problems. I make ideas sharper, more original and more useful. I turn complexity into clarity, find ideas their unique opinion and help teams ship work they didn’t think they were capable of.

I go where the work needs me — from writing code to writing strategy, from teaching AI to beginners to helping exceptional teams do their best creative work.

I’m happiest in ambiguity and high stakes, turning half-formed ideas into memorable customer experiences. I’m not precious about the medium, software or technique. I care about finding the core of an idea, then working with designers, engineers and product teams to make it real!

I’ve proudly done that as Principal Designer at Help Scout, Buildkite and Atlassian… as Design Director at Campaign Monitor and Sendle… and as Design Lead at Skype and various agencies around the world.

I also founded Prevue, a design presentation product used by more than 40,000 agencies worldwide to share millions of concepts and gather client feedback. I built and ran Prevue solo for over a decade until its acquisition in 2018. Along the way, I taught myself to code, deepened my visual design craft and learned how to turn design judgement into a real, profitable business.

Computers are cool, but…

I spend a lot of time offline, too. Before design, I was a competitive sailor and coach — teaching people of all ages and abilities while competing in internationally recognised events. I worked as an ⛵ Olympic sailing coach and lived in the Mediterranean for a while before realising it might be time to point myself toward software.

My mind is never too far from the ocean. When I’m not online, you’ll usually find me outside with my wife and kids — travelling, swimming, sand-running or generally trying to remember that the best ideas rarely arrive while staring at a screen.