A huge advocate for the design community, Andy is a regular speaker at international conferences like SXSW, Awwwards and The Next Web. He founded and curated the dConstruct, UX London and Leading Design conferences, and manages an online community of over 1,500 design leaders. He's a founding member of the Adobe Design Circle and has appeared on both the Wired 100 and BIMA 100 lists, as well as winning agency of the year several times.
Andy founded Clearleft – one of the most influential design agencies in the UK. Andy was MD of Clearleft for 13 years, growing the company to 30 people and landing major clients like Virgin Atlantic, The BBC and Penguin Books.
Clearleft became employee owned in 2020.
Andy has been fascinated by conferences since speaking at his very first SXSW in 2005. Eager to attend more events back in the UK but finding none, he set up dConstruct, the first dedicated design conference in the UK. Since then he's gone on to set up numerous other conferences like UX London and Leading Design.
Andy loves sharing his thoughts and ideas with design and business leaders, at conferences like SXSW, Mind The Product and The Next Web. His topics all focus on how companies and teams can unlock the power of design in order to create some kind of competitive advantage.
Andy has been coaching start-ups for at least the past 10 years; first through programmes like SeedCamp, and more recently as an advisory board member.