About me

My name is Nils Fearons, I was born in Barnsley, South Yorkshire in 1982. I have always had a huge passion for Art and Design from a very young age and I loved to paint and draw. This passion followed through in to my education and also in a lot of my hobbies and interests that I love to enjoy on a daily basis.

I now live in South West London with my Wife and our two girls who are my main focus in life. I spend most of my spare time enjoying and teaching my girls the things that I have learnt so that they too can have a fun and creative life.

If I ever find my self at a lose end I have a multitude of skills that I love to enjoy from Bottle Flaring and Skateboarding to keeping fit on my bicycle or lifting weights.

Current Role

I am currently working as a full time web designer/front end developer in Teddington. As a senior designer I manage my own projects as well as giving direction to others with regards to design, development and technical issues.

Although I am a Web Designer/Front End Developer I have other skills including Flash, Android development in Eclipse and some Windows server side skills including IIS management and MSQL,As we have our own CMS I spend a lot of the time in this role trouble shooting, I also have to assist with any server migration and DNS management.

My Education

2004 – 2007 - University of Westminster

Upper Second Class Degree
BA Hons in Graphic Information Design
Dissertation: "Consistency and Predictability within Design"

1999 –  2001 - Barnsley College,  Barnsley

A Level art & craft

BTEC Diploma Art & Design

10/1994 – 06/1998 - Holgate School, Barnsley

6  G.C.S.Es - Maths, Arts, Music, Double Science, Design Technology

What makes me tick

I love interface designer and have a huge passion for interaction design & user experience architecture. I am firm advocate of web standards & enjoys talking design with anyone who cares to listen.

Some of my work

A lot of my work includes design and build of clean, stylish and effective projects that range from web interfaces and interaction design methodologies to highly polished pieces of print work.

What can I do for you

My skill set typically involves user interface design and development, interaction design, user experience architecture, XHTML, CSS, Flash, typography and the odd bit of traditional print design.