Hi
I'm Matt Norrish

My speciality is designing and building modern, accessible websites and applications.

I’m a young, pro-active user experience designer and web developer; skilled in both creative design process and hand-coding in a range of technologies and frameworks.

What excites me is modern, innovative and accessible. I love learning new skills and putting them to use with great ideas.

I'm currently based in Dunedin, NZ, working as the Web Developer at T&D Advertising and Marketing.

More about me on LinkedIn

What
I offer

  • Design and development of everything from simple brochure websites and blogs to advanced web applications.
  • Custom-built themes and plugins for content management systems including Wordpress.
  • Responsive web design for various devices including desktops, tablets and smartphones.
  • Modern, accessible, compliant code which follows industry best practices.
  • Graphic design for both print and screen including logos, brand identity, photography, photo editing and illustration.

My work

CareerCloud

Established by the New Zealand ITPs, CareerCloud helps to link businesses to work-ready students and graduates in a number of sectors nationwide.

I led development, collaborating with a team of newSplash Studio colleagues — web developers, Nick Bryson and Rob Attfield and designer, Victoria Griffin to create stage one of this web application in a short timeframe.

Stage two is in development now.

Built on the CodeIgniter PHP framework.

CareerCloud homepage
Under development

OP Tools

An iPad/iOS application used at Otago Polytechnic to teach students the safe operation and maintenance of power tools.

The application platform is now being used with different content in a range of courses throughout the institution.

Designed by me as a freelancer and developed by iOS developers, Anton Smith and Taua Piri.

Awards:

  • Microsoft Tertiary ICT Innovation Award 2011
  • 3M Award for Innovation in Health and Safety – Gold 2011
OP Tools lauch home screen OP Tools lauch loading screen

Centrefire McCarthy’s

New website for one of Dunedin’s oldest retailers, providing an online presence for the business and its products, while encouraging visitors to engage further through online services and directly in store.

Centrefire McCarthy’s website

Nigel Brown

Official website for well-known New Zealand painter and printmaker, Nigel Brown. The website contains a journal, biography and catalogue of more than 300 images.

Developed by me from visual design provided by Dudley Benson.

Nigel Brown website

Kahu Technologies

Custom designed and developed website for Kahu Technologies, a New Zealand technology developer and engineering service provider with expertise in lightweight composites and computational fluid dynamics.

Designed by me and developed alongside Rob Attfield at newSplash Studio.

Kahu Technologies website

ClubChief

A free web application which makes sports team management easy.

Developed on Ruby on Rails by Otago Polytechnic BIT students, Lee Farley, BJ Smid and Ben Dol.

I was approached by the development team to design the brand and web interface — a task which I undertook as the final academic project in my Bachelor of Design.

ClubChief home page

My skills

Design

  • Web and app design
  • Digital SLR photography
  • Great knowledge of typography
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Adobe InDesign
GangstaMatic character illustration

Development

Frontend

  • HTML(5) and XHTML
  • CSS — also LESS and SASS precompilers
  • Javascript, jQuery and CoffeeScript
  • Microdata/Schema.org
  • Great knowledge of browser compatibility and web accessibility guidelines.

Backend

  • PHP — CodeIgniter MVC framework and custom Wordpress theme and plugin development.
  • SQL — data modelling and relational database design.
  • Academic experience in Python and Java.
  • Currently learning Ruby on Rails.

General

  • Adobe Dreamweaver, Eclipse/Aptana and NetBeans IDEs.
  • GIT and SVN version control.
  • Comfortable with Linux, Mac or Windows desktop and command line.

I'm keen to be involved with any innovative projects
so get in touch

contact@mnorrish.co.nz
Skype
m.p.norrish
LinkedIn