The day job
Lead UX Interaction Designer
Money and Pensions Service (DWP). Accessibility isn’t optional here; it’s the point. I lead interaction design across a service used at scale.
Entry 06 — the person on the sheet
Hi, I’m Sul — designer by day, maker after hours
I’ve spent my career making services and products usable — most of it in the public sector, where the people who need the service most are the people the design has to work hardest for.
Over a decade of designing products — and I actually love my job.
Two truths
The side projects
Founder-maker behind Sulei
DayDeskr, Loyal Beagle, OpenDS and the rest of the index. Small products, designed and shipped by me — my laboratory for the craft I practise by day.
Ask me about the gap between design systems in Figma and the ones that survive production.
01 What I’m known for
Four specialisms, no filler
| No. | Specialism | What that means in practice |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Accessibility & inclusive design | WCAG 2.2 AA as a baseline, not a ceiling — audits, prototypes and the judgement to know what matters. |
| 02 | Design systems | Tokens, components, documentation and governance that survive contact with a real product roadmap. |
| 03 | Interaction design | Flows, states, errors and edge cases — the 90% of a product that ships after the happy path is drawn. |
| 04 | Product engineering | I build what I design — HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Nuxt, Directus. Range you can verify, not claim. |
02 Contact & elsewhere
The formal CV lives on its own sheet
Resume — sulei.uk/resumeThe formal documentContact form — sulei.uk/contactWork enquiries & hellosRSS — /writing/feed.xmlEssays & journals ↗Email — hello at sulei dot ukSlowest reply, most personal
Employer shown as “Money and Pensions Service (DWP)”, still subject to Sul’s employer-policy check.