✔ Professional Front End Designer & Developer with 24+ Years Experience
✔ Native English Speaker With Excellent Communication Skills
✔ Experienced in a Broad Range of Front End Development Platforms and Technologies
I specialise in UX flow development / enhancement & UI Design and development with a strong visual emphasis on brand consistency, coding best practices for web, mobile apps and admin dashboards using the latest Front End frameworks and technologies:
- Wire-framing: Figma / Sketch / Balsamiq / proto.io / Adobe XD
- Design: Figma / Sketch / Zeplin / Adobe (Illustrator, Photoshop) / Icon Font Development
- Development: HTML5, CSS (Less/SCSS), Javascript (ES6, Vanilla, TypeScript, jQuery, D3.js),
- Frameworks: Vue3, Quasar, Nuxt, BootStrap, AngularJS, React, WebFlow, nodeJS.
- Version control: I am competent using GIT, BitBucket and SVN versioning tools
My skills and experience are adaptable to any front-end framework - I can quickly find my way around most application file structure to refactor or extend existing functionality.
I am versatile and have experience entering a wide variety of projects at varying stages:
Initial text based brief ➜ definition of MVP ➜ wireframe development ➜ working prototype ➜ component definitions ➜ style guide development ➜ production development
My portfolio is available at ui-ux-design dot com.
My process is clear, and can be customised somewhat to suit my client and the team I am working with.
I value time spent discussing and clarifying the brief before embarking on any work so that both sides have a clear understanding and expectation of the work that is required. I work in an iterative way, and am familiar with Agile environments for design and development sprints.
I come with a broad range of experience on many types of projects from start-ups to large corporate companies. Thanks to this, there is a lot of knowledge I can bring to your project.
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Recent feedback from my clients:
"A Pro. We hired James to fix a broken calculator in a Webflow site. Besides a slight bump when understanding the location of the code, James delivered quickly and professionally to out utmost satisfaction. Thank you James!"
"Jamie combines high level front end skills with great communication and organizing abilities, resulting in a great end product we were very happy with. I would highly recommend Jamie for either working as part of a team, or as a single resource, for high quality front end coding, produced on time and on budget."
"Great quality work. Exceeded expectations in every possible way."
"High quality of deliverable. Very skilled."
"Jamie did a great job of delivering on time and on budget, very happy with his communication and quality of work as well. Would definitely work with him again."
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I have been working in the design and communications industry since I was 16 (that’s nearly 24 years!) and in UI & UX design and development across a vast range of devices since beginning my studies in Digital Graphic Design in Reading Colledge of the Arts, England in 1998. I have worked in web, graphic and application design and development since.
I have a solid understanding and working proficiency using HTML, CSS, LESS, SCSS, Javascript, jQuery, Vue.js, ReactJS, Bootstrap and NodeJS among others. I excel at idea development of flows and functionality, and have the skills and experience to bring those ideas to life through design and finally to fully functional, responsive experiences and applications.
Please check out my upWork profile and portfolio, my personal website and linkedIn profile for more details of my working history.
You may also contact me for references.
Personal hobbies include:
- Percussion, I play bongo, djembe, cajon, tamberine etc for a variety of bands and jam sessions
- Swimming, I try to go two or three times a week
- Walking, with my dog, my partner or anyone else interested
- Music - all types, it depends on my mood ;)
I look forward to hearing from, and hopefully working with you in the near future.