Brand & advertising strategy — with design and development
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Signals I care about from strategy through shipped UI.
Brand strategy
First
Positioning, narrative architecture, and experience principles—so channel and creative decisions share one compass.
Advertising strategy
Next
Funnel, media mix, and learning loops—where measurement and message meet without talking past each other.
Design & development
Together
Interface design and production-grade web delivery—carrying strategy into surfaces that can handle real traffic.
Region + global
IE · UK · TR
Day-to-day rhythm in Ireland, the UK, and Turkey; async-friendly collaboration across every timezone.
00 — Signals
What stakeholders feel before they read a single line of code.
These are the operating metrics behind my work—not vanity badges. They keep roadmaps honest and releases calm when traffic arrives.
LCP target
≤ 2.5s
Measured on real devices and throttled networks, with budgets agreed before pixels lock.
Keyboard coverage
100%
Critical flows operable without a pointer—including modals, command palettes, and nested navigation.
Privacy posture
Global-ready
GDPR- and KVKK-aware defaults for Ireland, UK, and EU launches; pragmatic consent and analytics patterns when your audience is worldwide.
Hotfix window
24h
Clear ownership and release channels so regressions are triaged quickly during launch weeks.
Narrative arc
From strategy to shipped surfaces—one table, one rhythm.
I do not polish interfaces or campaigns before brand and advertising strategy are legible; production findings feed the strategy in return. The three tracks below summarise how we keep decisions and delivery aligned.
Every phase ships something your team can reuse—a brief recap, a draft media plan, a component inventory, or a launch checklist in plain language.
Open the approach page01 — Frame
Strategy first, channels in agreement
Positioning, narrative, and funnel assumptions reinforce each other—creative and media speak one measurement language. That frame cuts rework once design and engineering begin.
02 — Build
Design and development carry the strategy
UI, prototypes, and production web delivery bake in performance and accessibility budgets early; campaign landings and product surfaces share the same token and typographic discipline.
03 — Learn
We do not scale before the loop closes
Post-launch CWV, conversion, and support signals become inputs for the next increment. A concise written recap and handover keeps momentum after my involvement thins.
Remote-first with strong overlap across Ireland, the UK, and Turkey; async-friendly everywhere else with written rituals and recorded sessions. I embed for heavy launch weeks, then stay close through measurement and iteration.
Capabilities
From strategy to production—brand, advertising, and the full interface stack.
I start with brand and advertising strategy, then carry design and development on the same line. Each pillar below explains how I embed quality on the delivery side—from first sketch to long-term maintainability.
Performance engineering
Budgets, traces, and shipping discipline
I profile early with Chrome traces and field data, then codify budgets in CI so regressions fail before merge. Code splitting, image pipelines, and font strategy are negotiated alongside UX—not bolted on later.
- Route-level and component-level lazy loading with intentional skeleton UX.
- Server-first rendering and streaming patterns where they materially improve TTFB.
- Third-party script governance with staged loading and consent gating.
Inclusive interaction design
WCAG 2.2 as a baseline, not a sticker
Accessibility is threaded through tokens, focus order, and live component docs. Screen reader spot checks and keyboard audits happen continuously—not as a last-mile audit surprise.
- Semantic landmarks, heading hierarchy, and skip affordances for dense apps.
- Motion preferences honoured with reduced-impact alternatives.
- Colour contrast validated against real brand palettes—not synthetic swatches.
Design systems & APIs
Composable UI with governance
I align component APIs with how product teams actually extend them: slots, variants, and documentation that stay in sync with Storybook or Figma libraries.
- Token-driven spacing, typography, and elevation scales shared across surfaces.
- Versioning strategy for breaking visual changes with codemods when feasible.
- Cross-discipline rituals so tokens and props stay mutually intelligible.
Motion & narrative UX
GSAP, Lenis, and restraint
Scroll-linked storytelling only works when it respects performance and reduced-motion settings. I choreograph timelines with cleanup, scrubbing, and layout-stable transforms.
- Lenis + ScrollTrigger wired on a single frame loop to avoid scroll jank.
- Pinned sections scoped with clear start/end markers for maintainers.
- Mobile-specific easing and distance to keep frames stable on mid-tier GPUs.
Studio
From strategy to production: what we can run together
Brand strategy and advertising strategy come first—once positioning, narrative, and the media plan are clear, we move into social and paid programmes, web and mobile design, UI development, and SEO as needed. Strongest calendar overlap in Ireland, the UK, and Turkey; fully remote delivery for teams anywhere.
Missing a line item? Brief the problem anyway—work often spans brand, advertising, and product surfaces at once.
Method
A transparent cadence from discovery to iteration.
No black-box handoffs. Each phase produces artefacts your team can reuse—research notes, component inventories, and release checklists that survive beyond my involvement.
- 01
Discover & frame
Stakeholder interviews, analytics review, and risk mapping. We agree on success metrics, accessibility level, and performance budgets before visual polish locks.
- 02
Model & prototype
High-fidelity UI in code where it matters: interactive states, edge cases, and data-dense tables. Design tools stay the source of truth for exploration.
- 03
Ship & observe
Progressive rollout, feature flags, and monitoring dashboards. Launch week includes paired war-room support and documented rollback paths.
- 04
Learn & harden
Post-release synthesis: CWV deltas, support tickets, and backlog grooming for the next increment. Knowledge transfer sessions for internal owners.
02 — Selected work
A few recent builds I’ve led or shipped end-to-end.
Operating principles
How I protect your brand, users, and roadmap.
These principles guide trade-offs when timelines tighten. They keep decisions legible for executives and engineers alike.
Trust by default
Transparent estimates, explicit assumptions, and weekly written updates. No surprise scope—if risk shifts, you hear it early with options, not noise.
Privacy-aware delivery
Analytics, cookies, and third-party embeds are weighed against GDPR and KVKK expectations for Ireland, UK, Turkey, and EU programmes—and adapted sensibly for global audiences. I favour minimal data collection and documented data flows for your DPO.
Clarity over cleverness
Interfaces should teach themselves. I bias toward predictable patterns, legible hierarchy, and copy that works across localisation—even before translation ships.
03 — Contact
You open the thread—or I do?
Two doors, one inbox: write to me directly, or leave a note and I’ll reply. (Either way, the same human reads it—no ticket-number personality.)
Writing to me first?
“Whoever sends first wins”—here nobody loses; worst case, your drafts folder gets a workout.
Strong timezone overlap for brand and advertising strategy across Ireland, the UK, and Turkey; async-friendly cadence for design and development delivery everywhere else.
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