Hey, I'm Dennis.

I design and build digital experiences
across brand, product, and interface.

I design and build digital experiences across brand, product, and interface.

Projects

Each project asked for something different. Here's how I answered.

Colour from waste

This project, backed by Sustainability Victoria and RipCurl, sought to explore potential uses within the visual arts sector for recycled pigments extracted from discarded textiles.

Deakin University

Colour from waste

This project, backed by Sustainability Victoria and RipCurl, sought to explore potential uses within the visual arts sector for recycled pigments extracted from discarded textiles.

Deakin University

Colour from waste

This project, backed by Sustainability Victoria and RipCurl, sought to explore potential uses within the visual arts sector for recycled pigments extracted from discarded textiles.

Deakin University

Three years of design leadership

Three years of in-house design leadership for a 100-year institution. A centenary identity, Victoria's first mobile-first TAFE enrolment experience, and a full website rebuild.

Box Hill Institute

Three years of design leadership

Three years of in-house design leadership for a 100-year institution. A centenary identity, Victoria's first mobile-first TAFE enrolment experience, and a full website rebuild.

Box Hill Institute

Three years of design leadership

Three years of in-house design leadership for a 100-year institution. A centenary identity, Victoria's first mobile-first TAFE enrolment experience, and a full website rebuild.

Box Hill Institute

When a building remembers

An interactive wall installation for Geelong Arts Centre, where visitors explore memories that link to other memories. Spatial and interaction design for a permanent public feature.

Geelong Arts Centre

When a building remembers

An interactive wall installation for Geelong Arts Centre, where visitors explore memories that link to other memories. Spatial and interaction design for a permanent public feature.

Geelong Arts Centre

When a building remembers

An interactive wall installation for Geelong Arts Centre, where visitors explore memories that link to other memories. Spatial and interaction design for a permanent public feature.

Geelong Arts Centre

True north

Refreshing the brand and label system for Spotted Bear Spirits, a handcrafted spirits company inspired by camping, fishing, and life outdoors.

Spotted Bear Spirits

True north

Refreshing the brand and label system for Spotted Bear Spirits, a handcrafted spirits company inspired by camping, fishing, and life outdoors.

Spotted Bear Spirits

True north

Refreshing the brand and label system for Spotted Bear Spirits, a handcrafted spirits company inspired by camping, fishing, and life outdoors.

Spotted Bear Spirits

A marketplace for mentors

A tutoring marketplace built around the educators it serves. End-to-end product design for a workspace that lets independent tutors run their business from one place.

Popless

A marketplace for mentors

A tutoring marketplace built around the educators it serves. End-to-end product design for a workspace that lets independent tutors run their business from one place.

Popless

A marketplace for mentors

A tutoring marketplace built around the educators it serves. End-to-end product design for a workspace that lets independent tutors run their business from one place.

Popless

Process

What I do, every project, to make sure the work lands.

Discovery

Every project starts with listening. Understanding the context, the audience, and the question underneath the brief.

Discovery

Every project starts with listening. Understanding the context, the audience, and the question underneath the brief.

Strategy

From there, the approach takes shape. Not a deliverables list, a point of view on what the work needs to do and why.

Strategy

From there, the approach takes shape. Not a deliverables list, a point of view on what the work needs to do and why.

Concept

Before pixels, the idea. Exploring directions that could carry the project, testing them against the strategy and the constraints of the medium.

Concept

Before pixels, the idea. Exploring directions that could carry the project, testing them against the strategy and the constraints of the medium.

Design

This is where the craft happens. Art direction, typography, motion, interaction, the texture of the work.

Design

This is where the craft happens. Art direction, typography, motion, interaction, the texture of the work.

Build

Design doesn't end at handoff. Working closely with developers and collaborators to make sure what ships matches what was designed.

Build

Design doesn't end at handoff. Working closely with developers and collaborators to make sure what ships matches what was designed.

Deliver

The final step is care. Documentation, guidelines, and a handover that means the work keeps working long after I've stepped away.

Deliver

The final step is care. Documentation, guidelines, and a handover that means the work keeps working long after I've stepped away.

Awards

Anthem Awards

2023

Awarded the Gold Anthem Award for the Perpetual Pigments project in the Sustainability, Environment & Climate category.

Anthem Awards

2023

Awarded the Gold Anthem Award for the Perpetual Pigments project in the Sustainability, Environment & Climate category.

Victorian Premier's Design Award

2023

Awarded the Best in Category for the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria project in the Communication Design category.

Victorian Premier's Design Award

2023

Awarded the Best in Category for the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria project in the Communication Design category.

Victorian Premier's Design Award

2022

Finalist for the Because the Night project in the Student Design category.

Victorian Premier's Design Award

2022

Finalist for the Because the Night project in the Student Design category.

Experience

Box Hill Institute

Senior Designer

2023 – present

Leading a small in-house creative team across roughly 750 projects a year, holding brand consistency steady through organisational change. Sole UX/UI designer on the work that matters most, including a mobile-first enrolment form that cut completion time by up to 60% and shaped the statewide TAFE CRM rollout.

Deakin University

Sessional Lecturer & Research Assistant

2021 – 2024

Lecturing in UX design, interaction design, and branding, translating curriculum into teaching materials and guiding students through studio projects. Worked alongside faculty on research and design initiatives, with 95+ student satisfaction ratings across the role.

Popless

UX/UI Designer & Communication Designer

2021 – 2023

Lead designer on the Popless brand and product, building responsive designs and scalable design systems from concept through to public beta. Worked closely with developers on accurate implementation, owning everything from brand identity to marketing collateral.

GP Design

UX/UI Designer & Communication Designer

2019-2021

Working across branding, packaging, print, and digital projects, including high-quality 3D product visualisations and augmented reality product models. Designed and built websites in WordPress and Squarespace.