Financial Times

At the Financial Times I'm a member of the Origami team. Our aim is to unify design and reduce the time teams spend repeating work.

To achieve our aims we, working closely with our product design team, maintain a shared frontend component system and also a number of services.

The services we own include a Build Service, to bundle and deliver Origami components; an Image Service, to optimise images for the web; and polyfill.io, to fix or add missing web browser apis.

As a services team the documentation we write, the support we offer, and our openness to feedback is particularly important. Being available to help fellow designers and software engineers is among the most rewarding parts of my role.