Digital Experiences.

I'm Paul, a product designer specialising in building thoughtful, fast, and accessible products on the web.

Selected Works

01. Selected Works

We The Players

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We The Players

We The Players began with a simple frustration: gaming is deeply social, yet the spaces we use to talk about games rarely feel welcoming. Built as an exploration into calmer, player-first communities, the project asked what might happen if a gaming platform prioritised shared taste, thoughtful discussion, and belonging over noise and engagement metrics. We The Players is a concept-led study in how product design can shape healthier, more human online communities for gamers.

Nexus Mods

Case Study

Nexus Mods

By 2015, Nexus Mods was the undisputed home of PC game modding. Nearly ten million members, hundreds of thousands of mods, and over a billion downloads. The numbers were staggering. The website, however, was not.

WordGrid

Case Study

WordGrid

WordGrid is a daily, time-boxed word game where players build as many valid words as they can from a shared 4×4 letter grid in 3 minutes, earning points via Scrabble-style letter values plus length multipliers. It’s designed to be quick, competitive, and repeatable as a daily ritual, with features like a daily leaderboard, private leagues, and a personal stats dashboard.

Personal Design System - Foundations

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Personal Design System - Foundations

Every designer has been there. A new project lands, the brand colours are completely different from your last one, and suddenly you're staring down the barrel of manually updating hundreds of components across dozens of files. It's tedious, error-prone, and about as enjoyable as a root canal. I wanted to fix that.

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02. Writing

21 February 2026

Design Systems Are Consuming the World (And That's Fine)

Whatever your relationship with design systems, here's the uncomfortable truth: they've gone from a nice organisational bonus to an absolute necessity. And if your team is still building products without one, you're essentially assembling IKEA furniture without the instructions. Except the instructions are also in Swedish. And someone's already lost three of the screws.

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21 February 2026

The UX of Video Games: What Product Designers Should Be Stealing

Product designers love to talk about onboarding flows, progressive disclosure, feedback loops, and user engagement. We attend conferences about it. We read books about it. We create elaborate Figma files documenting it. And yet, video games have been doing all of this, often brilliantly, since before most of us had email addresses. The games industry has been running the world's largest UX experiment for over forty years, and most product designers are barely paying attention.

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29 January 2026

Raising the Dead: Bringing a long fallen platform back to life

A gaming platform that cost £5,000/month fell under its own weight. Years later, it's been rebuilt from scratch as vgdb.co, with AI assistance and a radically simpler approach. This is a resurrection story.

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