Work with a human purpose.

Each project began with something I wanted to make easier for someone. They have taken different shapes, and some are still changing.

Employability & confidence

My Next Step

Helping people turn everyday experience into confidence for work, education or training.

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My Next Step interview practice with example stories — Preparing an interview with selected saved experiences. Development fixture with synthetic stories.

Learning to work with AI

J_OS

An evolving way to remember the work, bring AI collaborators together and keep my own judgement.

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A changing way of working

Remember
Decisions, context, lessons.
Connect
Different agents, a shared direction.
Make room
Clear boundaries, freedom to work.

Visual storytelling & learning

InkSpire

Give people a way to communicate meaningful text through visual stories, even when they cannot draw.

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InkSpire desktop start page with two sample comics — The desktop start page gives the collection more room, with two sample comics ready to open.

InkSpire compact start page with a sample comic — On a compact screen, the start controls and a sample comic follow one another vertically.

Creative work & ownership

Fiction Studio

Support a writer’s natural creative work while keeping the story in ordinary files they own.

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Fiction Studio manuscript workspace with a fictional sample story — Working on a manuscript. Recorded development reference using fictional sample material.

Fiction Studio character workspace with fictional sample material — Keeping a character’s background, traits and relationships together. Recorded development reference with fictional material.

A practical public utility

Nottinghamshire Jobs

Make local vacancy searching less fragmented through one straightforward public list.

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Nottinghamshire Jobs public search and filter controls — The public search and filters, captured on 4 October 2026. Vacancy figures and dates are a snapshot.

Bilingual learning & accessibility

LifeInUK

Designed primarily for learning on a phone: help Hong Kong immigrants understand with Traditional Chinese support, then practise in English.

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LifeInUK compact bilingual mock question with vertically stacked answer choices — Phone-first practice: English and Chinese together, with room to read and tap each answer. An unanswered mock question.

Some of these tools are public; others are still in development. Each story explains where the work stands. The examples show the design, rather than measured changes in people’s lives.