Development
Code & design, hands-on
A space for things I build for myself — watch faces and tiles for Wear OS smartwatches, and tools and themes for WordPress.
Watch faces for Wear OS
I design and build watch faces in the WFF format — from concept and layout through data complications to publishing on Google Play. Five so far.
Material Digital
A clean digital face in the spirit of Material design. Configurable colours, complications and digit style.
Material Digital
Bold stacked digital watch face with a dynamic accent colour and live weather.
- Big stacked clock — the hour in a filled circle, the minutes in a rounded square, in a soft rounded typeface.
- Nine accent tones (Grey, Mint, Lavender, Sky, Peach, Butter, Rose, Coral, Sage) colour the hour, the progress bar and the minutes.
- Live weather and step count as complications; a slim battery gauge across the middle.
- Always-on: the hour as a light outline, the minutes in a dark block.
Material Digital Combi
A combined face — analogue hands over a digital core, with a ring of complications.
Material Digital Combi
Digital watch face with three rim gauges you fill with any complication.
- Three curved rim gauges — each a complication slot you choose: steps, heart rate, calories, battery, weather, floors…
- The time on a soft scalloped Material container; day and date in a pill below.
- One accent, nine palettes — colours the container, the gauge fills and the date.
- Always-on: container and date pill as thin rings, the time a dim solid grey.
Material Digital Picture
A face with your own photo background, loaded from Google Photos. Built on WFF v4 for Wear OS 6.
Material Digital Picture
Your Google Photos on your watch, in a rounded card, star or full screen.
- Four shapes — rounded card, five-lobe star, large square, or a star filling the whole screen.
- Pick photos from Google Photos on your phone; they change each time you raise your wrist.
- Card shapes carry three gauges you fill with any complication.
- Time in Google Sans Flex over the photo; nine accent palettes; quiet always-on outline.
Material Digital Facet
Three complications for your favourite data, an app shortcut along the bottom, and the unread-notification count in AOD.
Material Digital Facet
A faceted Material face with three favourite complications and an app shortcut.
- Three complication slots for your favourite data — steps, heart rate, weather, calendar…
- An app shortcut along the bottom edge for one-tap access.
- Always-on shows the unread-notification count.
- Nine accent palettes colour the faceted centre and gauges.
Material Digital Duo
A bold split digital clock — hours in a rounded square, minutes in a circle, a two-dot colon between. Always on.
Material Digital Duo
A bold, split digital watch face — the time is the whole face.
- Black-weight digits: the hour in a rounded square on the left, the minutes in a circle on the right, a two-dot colon between.
- Top — a wide pill for a longer complication: day and date, next event, a label.
- Bottom — two small pills for a value each: steps, battery, heart rate, temperature, a timer.
- Always-on drops to thin monochrome line art — just the outlined blocks, colon and digits.
- Nine themes (Grey, Mint, Lavender, Sky, Peach, Butter, Rose, Coral, Sage) — one seed colour at three tones.
Material Watch tiles
Swipe from the watch face — a tile with exactly what you want, arranged how you want.
Favourite Apps
Six apps you pick, in two blocks of three, in your order — not alphabetical. Plus one text-only shortcut.
Favourite Apps
Your six apps, one swipe from the watch face — in the order you choose.
- The stock app list locks you to a three-wide A–Z grid. This is one tile with six apps you pick, arranged how you want.
- Two rounded blocks of three; move any cell earlier or later — it is never re-sorted for you.
- One name-only shortcut pill under the grid for the app you open by word, not icon.
- Editable title, set from the watch; nine colours matching the watch-face picker.
- Configured entirely on the watch — the settings screen is a live preview of the real tile.
WordPress plugins
Tools I build to fit the job — from interactive calculators to store management.
Financial calculators
A set of calculators (income protection, mortgage, repayments) merged into one plugin with a unified glass design. Real-time results.
Store management plugins
Custom plugins for running the shop, plus a range of smaller improvements and automations.
Newsletter plugin
My own newsletter plugin with an interactive template builder and email sending.
Web design
Full visual work — from concept through design to code.
E-shop redesign
A complete visual redesign of the store, plus an admin tailored to how the shop is run.
Custom websites
Websites built to order — end to end, from concept through design to code.
Custom theme
A fully custom WordPress theme — bespoke header and footer, animated background and a toggleable admin redesign.