Projects

Client work is confidential. This page shows tools I have built, or am building, for my own use. Get in touch if you want to talk about a project.

Government and public data

  • Council Reporter

    A tool councils can host themselves so people can report local problems without giving a name. People can send a photo and a location from their phone, for example pavement parking, graffiti or fly-tipping. It checks images, stores reports on a map, and gives council staff an admin view.

  • HMRC Ecosystem

    A map of how HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) services relate to each other, and to tax and customs more widely.

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User research and testing

  • Tessera

    A research tool you host yourself, so interview notes stay under your control. You can store documents, tag quotes, pull out themes, and sketch journey maps and service blueprints. It can also run keyword and clustering analysis. Optional links to language models are off unless you turn them on.

  • HeatMap

    Turns research data into a heatmap on a screen or prototype. You can use where people looked, or where they clicked or tapped. That shows where attention gathers, so you can compare tasks or designs in a report.

  • Retina

    Helps run studies that use where people look. It covers calibration and capture, and it can work with Fixation. Use it when gaze tells you about attention, confusion or whether a task worked.

Knowledge work and AI assistants

  • Mermate

    A tool for Mermaid diagrams: charts you write as text, such as flowcharts and sequence diagrams. You can create, edit and preview them next to the writing they belong with, so the diagram stays in step with the page.

Creative and visual

  • Mandala

    Makes symmetrical, circular patterns from simple rules. Other Mandala projects use it to draw the picture. Built for the pleasure of watching a pattern appear, in the spirit of old music visualisers.

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  • 365 days of sky

    A camera on a Raspberry Pi took one photograph of the sky at 8am every day for a year. Software then picked the main colour. Those colours were knitted into a scarf on a digital loom, as a wearable record of a time and place.

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Other

  • CrawlStreetJournal

    Web crawler and structured page inventory (CSV outputs) and visualiser

  • QRCodeGenerator

    QR Code Generator: enter a URL, generate and download a QR code

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