Design services
Apps, places, and programs where connection is built in rather than bolted on. I've spent thirty years thinking about how people end up isolated and what actually fixes it — and I'd like to put that to work on your project.
Things I can help design
The model this site is built on: people ask to live (or be) near their people through a matching app, space is deliberately kept open so groups can grow, anyone can move at any time, and a nearest-neighbours system lays the place out by real bonds instead of fixed plots. Every fragment of it is proven — the assembly is the design work, and AI now makes it practical. I'll help you apply it to a village, a building, a campus, or a program.
Systems that connect people by real bonds and real needs — like this site's AI-populated community directory and the living map concept. If your organisation needs people matched to people, places, or services, I've designed and shipped this.
"What's happening near me that I can just walk into?" — matching people to activities, groups, and each other without the friction of scheduling everyone in advance. The thinking behind this site's always-something-to-do design, applied to your place.
Retirement villages, neighbourhood houses, councils, and housing projects that want community to actually happen — not as an activities calendar, but designed into how the place works day to day. Drawing on the Belonging design series.
Residents are some of the most isolated people anywhere, and the research is blunt: connection is preventive health. An app that shows who's around, makes visits and activities easy to join without booking, keeps family in the loop, and gives residents real choices about their daily company — designed around the resident, not the roster.
How it works
Tell me what you're trying to make. A rough idea is enough — "our residents are lonely and the activities board isn't working" is a perfectly good starting brief. I'll help you turn it into a design: what it does, how people actually use it, what to build first, and what to leave out.
Cost depends on the project. If it genuinely grows community — especially for isolated people — I want it to exist, and I'm flexible to the point of free for the right project. Commercial projects, we'll agree something fair.
What you get: a worked design you can build from — screens and flows for an app, or the program and layout thinking for a place — plus the reasoning behind every choice, drawing on the evidence about what connection does to people.
I'm one person with deep interest and long experience in this one subject — not an agency. If you need a big team and a fixed enterprise contract, I'm the wrong door. If you need someone who has thought about isolation and belonging for three decades to help you design the thing properly before you build it, I'm exactly the right one.
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Tell me what you're trying to make, in as few or many words as you like. I read everything.
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