“Nick is the uncontested master of design as a means for translation and clarity. He finds the soft underbelly of ideas, listens at the door of culture, clears away the tangle of hyperbole - and reveals those few notes that matter.”

/  CHARLIE SUTTON - FORMER HEAD OF DESIGN - FACEBOOK/META  /

Nick is considered an expert in the use of design to bring emerging technologies, behaviors and ideas together into well-rounded propositions.

While Industrial Design forms the bedrock of his practice, the depth of his experience has allowed him to explore a broad spectrum of design approaches. As a consultant in London, Nick worked with a wide variety of clients - from chocolate manufacturers to luxury car brands - and used discussions, sketching, and storytelling techniques to help give their futures some sort of shape. At Sony, he used insights from emerging behavioral research to create compelling, high-definition product concepts for new electronic devices, for both European and Asian customers. During his time at Nokia, he used models, prototyping, animation and filmmaking techniques to bring future devices and services to life, and poked at the future of countless technologies through long-form writing and debate. At Google, Nick created provocative pieces of future hardware and demos of novel interaction concepts for a number of challenging engineering projects, and at Google X he built a talented, cross-disciplinary design team to identify and develop high-impact moonshot projects.

Nick’s ongoing research and writing have also established him as a key figure in the conversation about what design is, and helping to redefine what design can do.

Due to the strategic nature of his work, the majority of it remains pre-launched or under strict non-disclosure clauses. If you would like to see examples of Nick’s work or discuss particular projects, please get in touch here.