DEPT® Agency
Lead Design & Strategy, Melbourne | Feb 2026 – Present (Contract)
Leading design and strategy across concurrent client engagements, setting the design direction and owning the client-facing design relationship. Directing designers on each engagement and pairing UX, UI, and product thinking with commercial context from discovery through delivery.
- Google Store, global e-commerce. Design lead on a flagship retail workstream, delivering page patterns, content systems, and UX into a live global storefront. Partner directly with Google product and brand teams, working inside their design system and review process, and hold the design bar across a high-volume commercial surface.
- Healthdirect Australia, 1800MEDICARE ChatGPT app. Design lead across clinical triage, service finder, and health knowledge. Defined eight guardrail principles and the evaluation criteria behind a QA harness now used for every release, and negotiated clinical thresholds with the health service's medical director and clinical analytics lead.
- Zimmermann. Leading discovery on a clienteling problem spanning online and in-store, where the customer relationship is fragmented between channels. Used coded prototypes early to pressure-test directions with retail, digital, and brand stakeholders before recommending a path.
- UNSW College. Leading discovery and design strategy for the student-facing platform, mapping the student journey and setting the design and content approach the build teams are taking forward.