Product Design Engineer
Hey. I’m John.
Independent by nature, curious by default. I turn complex problems into useful, thoughtful products — designing and building at Flowforest, consulting at Goodjob.
Available for select work · 2026
Designing & building atFlowforestConsulting atGoodjobBased inNambucca Valley, AustraliaExperience15+ years
01 — Selected work
Projects built with people, for people.
Client and independent work across e-commerce, education, hospitality and culture — carried from first sketch through to production.
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02 — Independent practice
Software I’m designing and building.
Local-first tools made through Flowforest — where product thinking, interface design and agentic development come together.
03 — R&D
A little room to experiment.
Small tools, visual studies and ideas followed out of curiosity — a look inside my R&D folder.
Bus 351
On schedule or late? A weekday workflow that checks live departures and sends one sentence to WhatsApp.
Solar State of Charge
One number, every hour, wherever I am. An hourly message with the battery state of charge, straight from the Victron VRM API.
Canopy
An evolving canopy of particle trails. Explore how local rules, layered noise and colour build an organic whole.
Stipple Contours
A study in dots, contours and seeded variation. Adjust the parameters and explore the composition.
Hours in a Week
Make time tangible. Colour a weekly grid to explore where the hours go. Your choices stay in this browser.
PageSpeed Automation
Compare website audit results. A workflow using the PageSpeed Insights API. Requires your own Google API key.
Dropbox Save URL
Save a remote file into Dropbox. An interface for saving a file and checking its progress. Requires your own Dropbox access token.
Field note
The space between design and code.
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04 — Experience
A broad practice. A connected skill set.
From pixels to production lines, each chapter adds a different way of seeing a problem.
- 2026 — PresentFlowforest — Independent product practice
Bringing product thinking, interface design and agentic development together through Runway, Flare and Slate.
- 2021 — 2026We Are Coast — Front-end design & development
Led front-end design and development, turning brand and product direction into shipped interfaces.
- 2017 — 2021Independent work & physical making
Independent web consulting sat alongside CNC production at Sketch & Etch and industrial glass printing at Solos.
- 2010 — 2015In10tion Creative Agency — Co-founder
Co-founded a creative agency and led design, development and client delivery. Built custom websites, e-commerce stores and an education portal.
A designer who builds. A builder who asks why.
I’m John, a Product Designer and Agentic Developer based in the Nambucca Valley, Australia. I bring 15+ years across graphic design, UI/UX, web development and creative leadership to the things I make.
I co-founded a creative agency, worked independently across time zones and led front-end design and development at We Are Coast. Along the way I’ve run CNC machines and industrial printers — working with real materials has a way of sharpening how you solve problems.
These days I’m building local-first knowledge tools through Flowforest, using agents to help turn product ideas into working software. Away from the desk: family, surfing, running and making things.
Based in
Nambucca Valley, AU
Experience
15+ years
Studio
Flowforest
Consulting
Goodjob
Let’s work together
Have something in mind? Let’s make it real.
Designing and building useful, thoughtful products — from first idea through to shipped software.
Let’s talk