About

I make things, and I help other people make things.

I work where design, education, and technology meet, and I have for most of my career. Today I am a design mentor at the Apple Developer Academy in Bali, where I architect and facilitate a year long challenge based learning arc for 220 learners from over 19 countries. Alongside that, I also take on freelance design and product work.

My path ran through film and motion, then a Master of Interaction Design, then a decade of UX and product work, most of it in education technology.

Jacob's Memoji, waving
Experience
2025 to now

Design Mentor, Apple Developer Academy at BINUS

Joined at the very start of the Academy in Bali and have helped grow it since, shaping how a 220 learner, year long challenge based program is taught.

My focus is the learning design itself, worked out together with the mentor and ops team.

2022 to 2024

Design Mentor, Apple Foundation Program

University of Technology Sydney and RMIT University. Short, intensive challenge based learning programs where learners build their first iOS apps in teams.

The same CBL approach we use at the Academy, run over a few focused weeks.

2021 to 2025

UX / UI Designer, 3P Learning / Mathletics

Designed across an edtech platform reaching 3.5M+ students, alongside the content and analytics team. Redesigns lifted maths activity completion and boosted revenue.

Collaborated on the Student Centre redesign, teacher signups, and onboarding, so learners and teachers could get the best out of their maths.

2021 to 2024

Interaction Design Tutor, University of Technology Sydney

Taught interaction design studio alongside my product work.

Guiding students from user experience research through to resolved, testable prototypes.

2020 to 2021

Digital & UX / UI Designer, Infrastructure Partnerships Australia

Built a membership platform and content hub end to end, used to deliver educational and industry content to members.

This included InfraFlix, a hub for publishing learning and educational material across the sector.

2017 to 2019

Editor / Motion Graphics Designer, Fancy Films

Animated app prototypes and explainer videos for banking and public service clients.

Where I learned to tell a story in seconds, a habit that still shapes how I design.

What I do

  • Learning & curriculum design
  • Facilitation & mentorship
  • UX & product design
  • Motion design & animation
  • Design systems
  • User research
  • AI tech & design product workflows
  • Web & iOS prototyping

Tools

  • Figma, Sketch
  • After Effects, Lottie, Rive
  • Xcode, SwiftUI
  • HTML, CSS, JavaScript & Front End Tools
  • AI tools

Education

Master of Interaction Design University of Technology Sydney
Bachelor of Film and Television Swinburne University of Technology

Away from the desk
I live in Bali, training and learning Brazilian jiu-jitsu, which keeps me endlessly humbled every time I turn up to a class. I love learning, and I'm always building things to keep the creative juices flowing.