Nick is a co-founder of Canoe and a digital designer with over 20 years of experience in digital transformation, innovation and sustainability programmes for global companies, start-ups and essential social infrastructure. He combines strategy with hands-on delivery, using UX, UI, agile methodologies, storytelling, communications, and design thinking to develop data journeys, prototypes, digital innovation, and organisational change, focusing on the energy sector and decarbonisation.

Key competencies

• Data journeys and digital transformation, mapping legacy systems, designing SaaS cloud solutions and developing tools like dashboards, resource forecasting and emissions tracking that turn data into actionable insight for complex operations
• Digital innovation and UX/UI design, leading processes from concept to scalable product, combining service and interaction design to reduce risk, accelerate adoption and move from insight and prototyping to product strategy, design systems and measurable user experiences
• Sustainability transformation and decarbonisation, helping companies embed sustainability as a core business value, identifying efficiency gains, prioritising action and building tools that reduce fuel consumption and emissions without compromising performance, connecting strategy to real environmental and commercial results
• Aligns teams around shared goals through hackathons, workshops and visual facilitation. Builds momentum by making progress visible and engaging, using co-creation, team events and strong visual communication to establish a genuine team spirit and move complex work forward with purpose and clarity

Recent project highlights

• Stepwise – Chief Design Officer, SaaS platform for offshore emissions reduction – enabling 10–15% annual reductions in fuel use and emissions for TotalEnergies, Serica and Anasuria
• Equinor – Offshore wind research product designer
• Aker BP – Facilitator and product designer for the Eureka digital transformation programme