Becoming a remote UX/UI Designer

In 2015, I switched my UX/UI office job in London for a remote UX/UI Design role at Hotjar. The remote experience gave me the opportunity to travel and work from anywhere.

Working Remotely in Sydney

After five years of working remotely, my partner and I moved to Sydney. Following a surfing accident that had me on crutches for 6 months I began sharing educational content on socials

Growing a community of 30,000 Designers

After 3 months of sharing consistently, I grew a community of 30,000 folks around the world on Instagram and arranged the first Memorisely meet-up in Sydney; one designer named Pem showed up.

Memorisely Community Slack

Having conversations 1:1 via Instagram rocked but ultimately it felt like a great opportunity to connect other passionate designers. So, I created a free slack channel for the community to thrive

Memorisely first live Bootcamp

In the height of the pandemic I was shocked that General Assembly and the likes were charging upwards of $20,000 to learn UX/UI Design. So, I created Memorisely first remote Bootcamp and 6 folks joined around the world. Our first student to sign up, Mateen, joined live classes at 3am in Singapore!

Full-time at Memorisely

On October 5th 2020, I took the leap to go full-time on Memorisely and LA Drury joined as our first full-time Community Manager.

Yoga is introduced at Memorisely

With the pandemic causing our students stress, we hired our 3rd team member. Liza joined form the Netherlands to teach Yoga and help students get stretchy together after class.

Design Systems at Memorisely

With the initial UX/UI Design Bootcamp gathering demand and the curriculum evolving with feedback, I introduced a Design System Bootcamp to upskill those in the industry.

Hired our first remote teaching team

With demand exceeding supply, we hired our first remote teaching team who shared their expertise and contributed in improving our curriculums.

Memorisely becomes a team of 10

With a wider range of Bootcamp times available and our community swelling to 10,000+ in slack, we hired more Community Managers around the world and our first Bootcamp Manager to improve the learning experience for students.

Introduced specialised UX/UI Bootcamps

Following feedback requests from our community we launched our Accessible Design, UI Design, and UXR Bootcamp and hired experienced designers in these fields to teach our curriculum live.

Educating 300+ Students a term

In early 2022, we introduced the concept of terms to Memorisely and celebrated over 300+ students learning live with us each term.

First team-retreat to Portugal

Working remotely we felt the need to bring the team together. For our first-team retreat we invited the first ten folks who joined Memorisely to hang out in Portugal for 5 days of cycling, yoga, and surfing!

50 Team Members at Memorisely

Needing to meet the demand of those wanting to learn with Memorisely we continued to hire amazing folks to join our team and we celebrated building our first Dev, Branding, and Web Design teams

Meet-ups in cities around the world

Following the pandemic we invited our team to host micro meet-ups around the world in fun food markets. So far we've held meet-ups in London, Netherlands, Edinburgh, Barcelona, Ottawa, NYC, and Toronto

500,000+ Community

We've never spent a $ on advertising and have always championed our value of authenticity. Following a lotta creative effort from the team our community reached 500,000+ on socials

Introduction of Coding Bootcamps

Given our community began as designers, we felt it was a natural next step to connect them with developers. So, our team got to work creating live coding Bootcamps

Product Management Bootcamps

With a lotta requests for a Product Management Bootcamp we formed our first curriculum and started onboarding students to begin learning in early 2023

On-demand classes

Recognising that our community can't all learn live, we built a web application to make it easy for designers and developers to learn with us anywhere, anytime

Second team retreat in Lake District

Our second team retreat was an epic opportunity to bring our Bootcamp, Product, and Community team togetehr for hikes and fireside brainstorms