Almost all
things design.
A Wise rebrand
18 APRIL, 2023
The making of an icon
How we made a globally recognisable and scalable icon library.
Overhauling our unorganised and illogical set, to create something streamlined, usable, and ready for the world.
23 MAY, 2023
Creating a Wise typographic set
What does it mean to build a truly international account? Is it to be able to hold many currencies? Sure.
Speak your language? Well, now you’re talking – literally.
Redesigning Design Systems
25 MAY, 2023
Seven lessons from
7 years designing systems
You learn a lot over 7 years specialising in a field. Here are some of my lessons and practical guidance from a career of designing, redesigning and debranding Design Systems.
About me.
I’ve worked across many areas of design. From print, to web, and even to front end for a brief moment. All of these paths eventually led me to Design Systems, which I’ve been doing for the last 6 years.
I would describe myself as a hands on systematic designer, with strong knowledge in technical implementation and accessibility practices.
Along side working in design systems, I’m passionate about teaching and training others to improve their skills in both tooling and systems.
Some other fun stuff
- I’m a half German, half Maltese Aussie, pretending to be British.
- I studied a BA of Fine art in Interactive and Visual Design at QUT.
- I’m currently doing a creative leadership course at Future London Academy.
- When I’m not designing, you can usually find me writing, practicing yoga or crocheting things.
My more recent career
Design Lead
2021 - NOW WISE
Design systems
So far at Wise — I've led foundational product and marketing updates on a systems level for digital assets and typography in their global rebrand.
I also created an onboarding series for new designers, implemented core templates and patterns to keep consistency across product. Whilst, continuiously supporting product teams.
Design Lead
2019 - 2021 OVO ENERGY
Boost // Design systems
At Boost — I redesigned the end to end product offering from the app, to marketing, all the way to employee swag.
At OVO — I built a highly adopted, branded Design System. I then redesigned it to become a scaleable white label System for Kaluza, which was used by SSE and other partner brands.
Design Lead
2016 - 2019 SITEMINDER
Product // Design systems
At SiteMinder — I led experience design across 5 teams. Redesigned the entire product offering and built a Design System that aligned their 5 core products into one platform suite.
I also designed the mobile app for Little Hotelier, as well as a new product called Prophet.
DRIVEN BY DESIGN
© 2023 Ness Grixti
In the end, we only regret the
chances we didn't take