NICK WOODS
PRODUCT DESIGN LEAD • CREATIVE TECH • TEACHER • FOUNDER
Based in Naarm/Melbourne
👆 my brain
END-TO-END PRODUCT DESIGN
I've spent most of my career working in startups, leading the product design process from initial discovery research right through to MVP development.
I wear many hats. And not just because I have no hair.
I wear many hats. And not just because I have no hair.
RAPID, FUNCTIONAL PROTOTYPING
My background as a developer and passion as a creative technologist means I'm a pro at quickly building experiments to rapidly validate hypotheses.
Lately I've been exploring rapid functional prototyping using Bubble - ask me about it! Or watch a talk I did for This is HCD below (and THEN ask me about it).
Lately I've been exploring rapid functional prototyping using Bubble - ask me about it! Or watch a talk I did for This is HCD below (and THEN ask me about it).
Check out this talk I did on functional prototyping for This is HCD
FACILITATING CREATIVITY
Nothing makes me happier than helping a room full of people come up with shiny new ideas. I'm a believer in the importance of psychological safety and playfulness as key factors that bring out peoples' creativity.
I daydream about doing a PhD in how to foster psychological safety in creative teams to drive innovation and creativity.
I daydream about doing a PhD in how to foster psychological safety in creative teams to drive innovation and creativity.
TEACHING & MENTORING
I've mentored junior designers in the workplace, taught UX/IXD courses at University of Sydney and Academy Xi, and I'm an IxDA mentor.
WORK
Previous: Product Design Lead @ Today
Previous: Head of Product @ Piiq Digital
Responsible for everything product - research, end-to-end design, development.
Responsible for everything product - research, end-to-end design, development.
Previous: Sr. Product Designer @ ustwo
Project lead, designer, creative tech for a number of startup clients.
Project lead, designer, creative tech for a number of startup clients.
Want the secret case studies I can't share publicly? Hit me up
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SHOUT OUTS
Great artists steal, Good artists give credit. Here's who inspired this portfolio:
Fonts, Layout: Harry Moses
Colour palette: Oda
Worms Codepen: soulwire
Eye movement: Georg @ stackoverflow
Logo circle movement: Zach Saucier @ stackoverflow
Copyright Nick Woods 2024.
Great artists steal, Good artists give credit. Here's who inspired this portfolio:
Fonts, Layout: Harry Moses
Colour palette: Oda
Worms Codepen: soulwire
Eye movement: Georg @ stackoverflow
Logo circle movement: Zach Saucier @ stackoverflow
Copyright Nick Woods 2024.