This month it was 9 years since I started Collier Design and began freelancing, almost 14 years since I graduated and starting working as a designer.

Through the challenging period of the pandemic, I’ve seen my role at Tesco expand from leading design projects as a freelance UI Lead to joining the leadership team in a permanent capacity as Design Lead/Principal. I now oversee product design across some 45 products and 50 designers in the Enterprise design team. As a part of this I also lead the new Enterprise design system and the team coming together to make it happen.

Also this year, I’ve been lucky enough to work with Else (formerly SomeOne/Else) again on a project creating accessibility guidelines for leading pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim. It was great to work with Lu, Olly and Barry, and I hope to support them on another project again soon.