randomguy.dev

About

Tenyears
inandaround
theweb.

Portrait of the designer, seated by a window in Newcastle

Bio

I'm an independent web designer based in Newcastle upon Tyne. I work with founders, studios and small teams that treat their website as the front door to the whole business — not a leaflet they'll swap out next year.

Before going independent I was a senior product designer at a Series B fintech and, before that, a junior at a Newcastle agency that taught me most of what I know. I design, I code the front end, and I hand off cleanly to engineering teams when there's one waiting.

Outside work: long walks along the Tyne, records from the 70s I'm too young to remember, and a semi-serious search for the north east's best flat white.

Tools

  • Figma
  • Framer
  • Cursor
  • Next.js
  • TanStack Start
  • Astro
  • Sanity
  • Contentful
  • Vercel
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Motion
  • GSAP
  • TypeScript
  • Rive

Timeline

  1. 2025

    Studio of one, still.

    Working with founders and studios across UK, EU and US remote.

  2. 2023

    Went fully independent.

    Left product design at a Series B fintech. First client shipped in 6 weeks.

  3. 2020

    Senior product designer.

    Led design on a public-sector platform used by 400k people.

  4. 2017

    First real job.

    Junior designer at a Newcastle agency. Learned to ship on Fridays.

  5. 2015

    Northumbria BA (Hons) Graphic Design.

    Print, type, and a stubborn love for editorial grids.