“I've had the pleasure of working with Calvin on a variety of programmes and projects, spanning strategic and optimisation.

Calvin is without doubt, a seriously talented, and driven UX designer, who has constantly shown the ability to drive change along with adaptability required for working with clients.

A real talent of his is extracting the goals and real needs of a project and turning it into designs that will deliver the change required.

I look forward to watching his career develop and hope that we can work together again in the near future.”

Brad Sellars, Head of Delivery / Programme Manager at Biglight

“I worked directly with Calvin at the start of my time at GTB, where we had the role of delivering UX design for Ford's first fully end-to-end e-commerce journey.

Automotive is notoriously one of the most challenging industries to design for with a multitude of data, legal and market requirements. After a number of attempts from more senior freelancers, Calvin took on the task of designing the Global Car Configurator, single handedly, under intense time pressure, whilst implementing a design system. Following this he confidently presented his approach to a range of senior stakeholders, engineers, and undertook the justification battle with the design system team to get his component designs approved. After securing client buy in from the global client team he preceded to tackle every scenario, for all EU markets (and there were hundreds) all with a focused mindset and meticulous design eye.

Time and again he overcame UX challenges, solved UI problems with a system mindset, conducted full user research processes and showed himself to be equally brilliant in each field, solving business challenges with the customer and data at the heart of every decision.

Did I mention he's also a really nice bloke! Zero ego. Takes feedback seriously but positively and is always open to learning. He's amazing for team culture and rally's everyone together for the social events. Just a bloody legend really.”

Melody Michaud, Head of Product Design Operations at Skyscanner

“Calvin is great to work with, he’s a brilliant UXer / Product Designer as well as being super friendly, helpful & welcoming. I was brought into the business to finish a piece of work that Calvin had started & it was a really smooth transition, largely due to the quality of Calvin’s UX thinking & the documentation that I inherited from him. Calvin’s work is thorough & extremely well considered & I found him super easy to collaborate with due to his easygoing, calm nature. I’ve really enjoyed working Calvin, he’s great at what he does & is a thoroughly nice person to boot.”

Ronnie Baxter, Lead UX Designer at VMLY&R

"Calvin has been a pleasure to work with. He has produced some very professional designs with great communication throughout the process."

Richard Patterson, Founder at Comparitech

“Calvin has been extremely efficient and timely in the designs. He quickly understood the design language we wanted and adapted and gave us very good suggestions than what we wanted. We are already looking to work with Calvin again for our next project.”

Avneet Rana, Director of Technology at Baazi Networks

"We tasked Calvin with reviewing and making recommendations around the user experience of a website that we felt could be converting better. Calvin produced a clear and concise review, with a number of well thought out recommendations. He then produced a set of wires that were easy to understand, addressed the issues raised and were clear enough for our developers to work with. We were pleased with the speed at which Calvin was able to complete his work, throughout the process he was quick to respond to queries and make adjustments based on our feedback. As a result of this positive experience we have since decided to invite him to work with us on a number of other e-commerce projects."​

Shaun Sparks, Design & Development Manager at ROCK Insurance Group

"Calvin has been a pleasure to work with. His understanding of the brief was impressive especially when he did not have any previous experience in a travel project like ours. He made all deadlines, was communicative throughout the process and delivered beyond the brief with ideas we will shape with him in another project" 

Mike Bayon, CEO at Sound Travel

"Calvin is simply excellent. Eager, insightful and skilled. To top it off, he's also a pleasure to work with. I look forward to future projects with him."​

Adam Hall, Digital Account Manager at Oliver & Graimes

"First time we worked with Calvin but an excellent first delivery. Quickly grasped the requirement and worked seamlessly with both Business and Developer leads within the project team clearly and to spec. Look forward to working with him again soon."

​Michael Phillips, Developer at Fr3dom

"Great job on a tough project. Calvin went the extra mile creating a great set of wireframes and concepts on a complex b2b solution. Will definitely be working with him soon!"​

Sarju Radia, CEO at Inasepct Technology Ltd

"Extremely professional and responsive. Calvin worked to a very tight deadline and delivered exactly what we needed. Very impressed!"

Bryan Horner, Brand Director at Brand Action

"Working with Calvin was seamless. This was due to his vast knowledge of user experience design and advanced digital design skills.

​Initially we asked Calvin to design the UI of our booking platform, but this flagged up plenty of issues with our existing website which naturally we asked him to fix! The redesign of the booking platform has meant we have plugged a hole in our sales funnel and due to this have a much higher volume of viewings booked. After finishing our booking platform we then commissioned Calvin to work on our home page, our city page and property information pages. Looking to A/B test the redesign of the website when we roll it out - the results should speak for themselves!"   ​

 James Wragg, Digital Marketing Manager at Student Cribs

"Calvin did such an excellent job for us in critiquing a client's website and its convoluted user journey, helping us argue the case that their site needed an overhaul. His work was thorough, well thought-out and Calvin demonstrated excellent attention to detail."   ​

Simon Fordham, Director at HeyBigMan!

As part of his major project research, Calvin suggested to us to adopt a Lean process, which he took charge of. Although this didn’t turn out as he had hoped for reasons out of his control, Calvin’s persistence to carry on using the process on his own accord demonstrated drive and determination to put his own mark on the development of Wugo.

Having watched him work and approach the development of Wugo with such a focus on the user, it is clear that he’s a practical worker and enjoys experimenting with different techniques in order to broaden his understanding in the field of UX. 

Calvin and I have stayed in close contact since his time at Wugo came to an end, as a result of the quality of his advice, I have, in fact, involved him as an advisor for a new app development project that has recently begun. His persistence in the face of adversity as well as his clear and concise communication skills will hold him in good stead throughout his career." ​

Joel Bravette, Brand and Marketing Director at Wugo

"I began working with Calvin in July on FansVoice and was something I had been working on for quite some time. As a CEO who initially lacked any tech skills, I had been involved with a couple of designers previous to Calvin and having him on board proved to be a breath of fresh air. 

From the outset, Calvin was clear with his intentions in terms of the methodology (design sprints) he’d be implementing in order to try and get the app ready for the start of the 2016/17 Premier League season as planned. Although Calvin was only working on FansVoice 2 days a week, which resulted in the methodology being compromised to an extent, the sprints meant the app progressed significantly throughout his involvement. With tasks outlined at our weekly meetings, Calvin quickly produced the progressions using Sketch and made them available to me, along with all the assets, using Zeplin. Although the app itself wasn’t ready for the start of the season due to the amount of work, using the sprints saw 95% of the original development brief achieved to a very high standard.

While the design sprints were effective, being able to communicate with Calvin easily throughout the week, to make further refinements and improvements to each sprint, made the world of difference. His communication skills and work ethic were second to none and I was amazed at how quickly he was able to produce new designs after just a brief conversation. 

Having had a look over Calvin’s portfolio upon his response to my original advertisement for a UX/UI designer, I was thoroughly impressed with his eye for design. Working with him on the project demonstrated that he has a great understanding of UX and has proved that he is more than capable of implementing a sound UX into simple, yet effective designs. 

Calvin would be a great addition to any team and I hope to continue working with him further down the line!"​

Piers Ebdon, CEO at FansVoice