About
UX/UI design through
the lens of education.
I’m Jack, but most people call me JP. I’m a UX/UI designer and digital marketing specialist on Vancouver Island, currently designing institutional and web experiences for Queen Margaret’s School.
Background
From classrooms to interfaces.
I’m a UX/UI designer and digital marketing specialist focused on creating clear, accessible, and practical digital experiences across web, content, communication, and brand.
My career started in education after earning an Educational Assistant and Community Support Certificate from Vancouver Island University. Working in schools across Vancouver Island gave me a strong foundation in empathy, adaptability, communication, and problem-solving. Those skills continue to shape how I approach design: by understanding people first, then creating systems that are easier to use, navigate, and maintain.
I later completed the Interactive Media Developer Certificate at Camosun College, where I developed skills in UX/UI design, front-end development, prototyping, visual design, and digital media. This gave me a way to combine creative thinking, technical execution, and user-focused problem-solving.
In 2023, I joined TASIS Portugal as a UX/UI Designer and Web Specialist Intern, contributing to web and design projects in an international school setting. I later continued with TASIS remotely as a consultant, supporting digital work from Victoria, BC.
Today, I work at Queen Margaret’s School as a Digital Marketing Specialist and Designer. My role spans website strategy, UX/UI improvements, digital marketing, content management, photography, videography, print and digital media, admissions-related pages, and stakeholder-facing web projects. It has become the strongest expression of my skill set: turning complex organizational needs into polished, practical digital experiences.
While my background in education is a major asset to how I design, I’m interested in building useful digital experiences across a wide range of fields. I’m especially drawn to work that combines strategy, design, communication, and implementation to make information clearer, systems more usable, and experiences more effective.
Philosophy
How I think about design.
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Clarity over cleverness.
The page or product has a job to do. I’d rather design a confident, obvious experience than a clever one that needs explaining.
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Accessibility is the floor.
Focus states, contrast, hierarchy, and type aren’t features. They’re the baseline a professional digital product owes its users.
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Constraints make better work.
WordPress themes, plugin commitments, governance rules, PHP versions: these aren’t the enemy. They’re the conditions the design has to live inside.
Strengths
A few things people hire me for.
- UX/UI design for content-heavy sites and internal tools
- WordPress implementation work that holds up over time
- Information architecture for stakeholders with competing needs
- Accessible-by-default HTML, CSS, and design tokens
- Content design that turns long copy into useful structure
- Quiet, defensible visual systems for institutional contexts
- Print and digital production fluency across Adobe CC
- Designing with people who don’t usually get designed for
- Digital marketing campaigns that stay on-brand across channels
What I’m looking for
Where I want to take this.
I’m building toward a career in UX/UI, product, and education technology. I’m especially interested in:
- Design work that improves outcomes for students, especially those with learning disabilities.
- Education-sector product teams in K–12, independent schools, or EdTech tackling a meaningful problem.
- Roles where design and implementation aren’t separate jobs.
- Teams that take accessibility, content, and stakeholder collaboration seriously.