I dig handcrafting shit for the web. My background is in code and my passion lies in design and typography. Extensive experience with HTML(5), CSS(3), Photoshop, PHP, WordPress, jQuery and JavaScript. My left and right brains take turns bitch-slapping each other until something good comes out.
I like to think I'm adept at fusing creativity with practicality. I love relaxing in front of a text editor and coding just as much as I love engrossing myself in a sketchbook, Photoshop or Illustrator and designing away.
I make lots of websites, drink lots of coffee and swear lots of swear words.
My focus is, funnily enough, on the user's experience; trying every day to imbue joy and wonder through awesome visual and interaction design.
I work with a team of rather awesome UX folk, in a company of rather awesome tech folk, making some rather big websites.
My freelance design studio where I handcraft websites and web apps for awesome clients around the world. I get to wear many hats. Some of which look ridiculous. Employed by various small businesses, artists, musicians and design agencies on a regular basis.
Worked as lead developer on a contract basis on a number of client projects. Mostly medium-scale, bespoke projects e.g. CMSs, CRMs, booking management systems. Powered by hand-coded PHP backends, HTML and CSS front-ends and jQuery for interaction enhancement. Learned a hell of a lot. Got to get my hands dirty with all sorts of web technologies. Worked part-time throughout University and full-time for a short while after leaving. Quit in order to take the plunge and start Scott Riley Designs.
Expanding upon previous Software Engineering qualification. A hell of a lot more development. Specialised in Java. Realised I hated Java. Tried to do all assignments in PHP, HTML and CSS. Dropped out because Java horrifically abused me and I had no passion for the work.
More development assignments than you can shake PASCAL at. Learned a good number of programming languages, but most importantly obsessed over methodologies and project management. Had to suffer the agony of a VB side-project. Made pong on my first day. Bitched the course up with a 98% overall. Remember 10% of what I was taught. The good 10%. I hope.