Three connected modes of work. Most engagements start with an interface analysis and grow from there — into research that explains what the analysis surfaced, or into design work that puts the changes into the product. Each mode also stands alone.
Interface Analysis
Best For: Product teams, app developers, ethical tech startups, regulated industries..
A forensic read of your digital product's behavioural architecture — how it's designed to influence users, what patterns it's borrowed from, and where it sits inside the wider landscape of platform culture and digital norms.
You receive a written report with prioritised findings and recommendations your team can act on. The same findings also become public-facing content: short videos that communicate what your product is actually doing and why that matters, built from genuine critical understanding rather than marketing language.
Pricing on request.
Research
Qualitative User Testing
Variable Scope
Best for: Teams who need to understand something specific about how their users actually experience the product — before a redesign, alongside an analysis, or as a standalone study.
Research scoped to the question you're trying to answer, not the methodology you think you should be using. At the lighter end: desk research, heuristic work, structured walk-throughs, competitor analysis through the lens of interface ethics. At the heavier end: user testing, qualitative interviews, full research projects that produce a grounded account of how users are actually moving through your product — not how you assume they are.
Research can deepen an interface analysis or stand alone. Either way, you end up with something defensible to point at when you're making design decisions internally.
Pricing on request.
interface design
Best for: Ethical tech founders, consumer app teams, and mission-driven organisations
Most interface design inherits its logic from platforms built on extraction and manipulation. The patterns are everywhere and the alternatives aren't obvious. I work with you to build interfaces that are honest about what they're doing to users, grounded in an understanding of how digital systems shape behaviour and identity, and aligned with what you actually stand for.
Available two ways:
— Project work, with scoped deliverables and a clear end point.
— Monthly retainer, I work alongside your team keeping both the philosophy and the product goal intact. .
Pricing on request.
Interface Analysis
Best For: Product teams, app developers, ethical tech startups, regulated industries..
A forensic read of your digital product's behavioural architecture — how it's designed to influence users, what patterns it's borrowed from, and where it sits inside the wider landscape of platform culture and digital norms.
You receive a written report with prioritised findings and recommendations your team can act on. The same findings also become public-facing content: short videos that communicate what your product is actually doing and why that matters, built from genuine critical understanding rather than marketing language.
Pricing on request.
Research
Best for: Teams who need to understand something specific about how their users actually experience the product — before a redesign, alongside an analysis, or as a standalone study.
Research scoped to the question you're trying to answer, not the methodology you think you should be using. At the lighter end: desk research, heuristic work, structured walk-throughs, competitor analysis through the lens of interface ethics. At the heavier end: user testing, qualitative interviews, full research projects that produce a grounded account of how users are actually moving through your product — not how you assume they are.
Research can deepen an interface analysis or stand alone. Either way, you end up with something defensible to point at when you're making design decisions internally.
Pricing on request.
Interface Design
interface design
Best for: Ethical tech founders, consumer app teams, and mission-driven organisations
Most interface design inherits its logic from platforms built on extraction and manipulation. The patterns are everywhere and the alternatives aren't obvious. I work with you to build interfaces that are honest about what they're doing to users, grounded in an understanding of how digital systems shape behaviour and identity, and aligned with what you actually stand for.
Available two ways:
— Project work, with scoped deliverables and a clear end point.
— Monthly retainer, I work alongside your team keeping both the philosophy and the product goal intact. .
Pricing on request.
Interface Analysis
Best For: Product teams, app developers, ethical tech startups, regulated industries..
A forensic read of your digital product's behavioural architecture — how it's designed to influence users, what patterns it's borrowed from, and where it sits inside the wider landscape of platform culture and digital norms.
You receive a written report with prioritised findings and recommendations your team can act on. The same findings also become public-facing content: short videos that communicate what your product is actually doing and why that matters, built from genuine critical understanding rather than marketing language.
Pricing on request.
Research
Best for: Teams who need to understand something specific about how their users actually experience the product — before a redesign, alongside an analysis, or as a standalone study.
Research scoped to the question you're trying to answer, not the methodology you think you should be using. At the lighter end: desk research, heuristic work, structured walk-throughs, competitor analysis through the lens of interface ethics. At the heavier end: user testing, qualitative interviews, full research projects that produce a grounded account of how users are actually moving through your product — not how you assume they are.
Research can deepen an interface analysis or stand alone. Either way, you end up with something defensible to point at when you're making design decisions internally.
Pricing on request.
Interface Design
Best for: Ethical tech founders, consumer app teams, and mission-driven organisations
Most interface design inherits its logic from platforms built on extraction and manipulation. The patterns are everywhere and the alternatives aren't obvious. I work with you to build interfaces that are honest about what they're doing to users, grounded in an understanding of how digital systems shape behaviour and identity, and aligned with what you actually stand for.
Available two ways:
— Project work, with scoped deliverables and a clear end point.
— Monthly retainer, I work alongside your team keeping both the philosophy and the product goal intact. .
Pricing on request.
DISCOVERY
We talk about your product, your users, and what's bothering you. I'll tell you honestly whether I can help— and if I can, I'll outline what an engagement would look like and what it would cost.
DIAGNOSIS
I go deep into your product, platform presence, or communications stack. I'm mapping the behavioural layer: what assumptions your design is making about your users, what patterns it's borrowing, and where those patterns confl ict with your values.
DELIVERY
You receive what the engagement scoped for — a written report and UGC content for an analysis, a research output for a research engagement, a redesigned interface and implementation templates for a design project, or an ongoing working relationship for a retainer. We finish with a working session so the deliverable lands properly inside your team.
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DISCOVERY
We talk about your product, your users, and what's bothering you. I'll tell you honestly whether I can help— and if I can, I'll outline what an engagement would look like and what it would cost.
DIAGNOSIS
I go deep into your product, platform presence, or communications stack. I'm mapping the behavioural layer: what assumptions your design is making about your users, what patterns it's borrowing, and where those patterns confl ict with your values.
DELIVERY
A strategic communications framework built on systems-level understanding of how platforms distribute,suppress, and amplify content. I help you develop messaging, content strategy, and channel approaches thatcut through algorithmic noise — without resorting to the engagement-hacking tactics that undermine yourcredibility.