I'm Liam, a digital designer / developer with over ten years experience engineering, building, and releasing digital products. I've worked with a wide variety of organisations — from small startups to established, multi-national businesses.
I presented a talk at the September 2017 PolymerSyd meetup. The talk detailed my experiments with the preview version of Polymer's syntactic sugar for Web Components.
View the presentation online →I co-founded PolymerSyd — a quarterly meetup group for Polymer & Web Component enthusiasts. I also had the honour of being a speaker at the first event alongside representatives from Mentally Friendly and Google.
Join the meetup →I published an article about creating a simple web component using Polymer.
Read the article on Medium →I released a Polymer web component that works like a paper-dropdown-menu on desktop browsers but switches to the native OS select element UI on mobile devices.
Find it on Bower →I released an Ubuntu Docker container for Laravel web applications to GitHub & Docker Hub for public use. It generated a bit of traction and reached a few thousand installs, but was eventually made redundant by Vessel.
View on Docker Hub →I joined Mentally Friendly — a digital product studio that helps businesses tackle complex challenges.
View their website →In 2012 I was invited to help design and publish the first issue of the Animal Studies Journal, a fully-refereed (double-blind peer reviewed) journal highlighting current research in human-animal studies. More recent issues have moved to a digital format and I'm proud to continue my involvement with the publication to this day.
Visit the Animal Studies Journal website →To fulfil the written component of a BCA (honours) course I wrote a thesis about virtual worlds, gamification, & the role of designers and developers in creating hyperreality.
Read the thesis →A prototype for an alternative art collection browsing system. In order to fulfil the practical component of a BCA Honours course I built a table-sized touch screen device (using a projector, a webcam, a low-power PC, lots of MDF, and infrared light), then designed a prototype interface for navigating the UoW Art Collection. This work was on display as part of the Digital Natives art exhibition .
Read the production notes →I'd love to catch up and chat about what digital prototyping means to you, which comic superhero is due for a good movie adaptation (spoiler; it's Nightwing), the future of virtual reality, or anything else that takes your fancy!
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