Years
Not just time, pattern recognition. Enough to know what works and where things break.
Independent UX consultancy
21 years of research, design and strategy at the NHS, Barclays, ING and GOV.UK Verify. Engagements scoped and priced up front, and flexible when the work demands it.
Experience
Research, design and strategy. Mostly on products that had become harder than they needed to be.
Years
Not just time, pattern recognition. Enough to know what works and where things break.
Projects
Some needed small fixes. Others needed starting again. Knowing the difference is where the value is.
Clients
Different pressures, different expectations, same goal. Cut through the noise and get to what actually matters.
Industries
Patterns repeat, context changes. Experience is knowing what transfers and what doesn’t.
Countries
Different cultures, different ways of working. Clarity matters more when nothing else is shared.
Fixed scope, fixed price.
Engagements are defined up front and flexible when the work demands it.
Blissfully independent.
No internal politics to protect, no permanent headcount, no recruitment cycle.
Bigger engagements exist.
Embedded and fractional work is available when a fixed piece is not the right shape.
The path they made, not the path you built.
I find where the journey and the design disagree, then set out what to change and in what order, so the next release fixes the right thing.
You can’t argue with a worn step.
I go and ask, watch and record, then hand back what people did rather than what they said they would do, and the decisions that settles.
The track is fine. The points are the problem.
I map the route end to end, find the handovers that break, and show you which ones are costing you customers rather than merely annoying them.
Nothing here is found by luck.
I test how people actually look for things, then rebuild around that: labels, hierarchy and navigation that match how they already think.
They came all this way to be stopped.
I find the exact points where people stop, work out why, and hand back a ranked list of fixes with the size of the prize next to each one.
Nobody is average. Design like it.
I audit against WCAG, test with assistive technology, and hand back what to fix, in what order, and what it takes to keep it that way.
Everything downstream is decided here.
I help you work out what is worth building, what to leave out, and how you will know it worked, before the first sprint, not after the tenth.
Half a transformation is the system you had.
I start with how the work actually happens, not the org chart or the roadmap, then help you change the process and the service together.
You keep flying. I come to you.
I work inside your team, setting direction, raising the standard and building the capability, so what I leave behind keeps running without me.
LET'S WORK TOGETHER
UX, research and product leadership for teams tackling complex digital services.
Previous feedback
I had a fantastic experience working with Andy. One of his most impressive achievements during our time at NHS HEE was masterminding a deeply complex information architecture for a new platform that brought together a large number of legacy websites.
Will Parkhouse
Senior Content Designer