James Nowland
UX Design Brand Lead at NGM Group
Newcastle-Maitland, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolJames Nowland is a UX Design Brand Lead and ex-front-end engineer with 11 years delivering customer-centred digital products across banking, utilities, agencies and startups from Newcastle-Maitland, NSW. He blends hands-on front-end craftsmanship and graphic design training with strategic UX leadership, having built teams, prototypes and “ways of working” to help organisations like Greater Bank and Hunter Water go digital. As a consultant and General Manager at Cadence Interactive he pairs commercial pragmatism with design systems thinking, and currently drives brand consistency and agile practices across NGM Group’s digital platforms. Known for keeping developers moving while mentoring designers, he has a rare mix of visual polish and technical fluency that helps translate complex business needs into intuitive experiences.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma Graphic Design, Diploma Graphic Design at TAFE NSWSt Francis Xavier, Hamilton, NSW
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Github Skills (63)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jnowland/sightwords
Aug 2018 - Apr 2020
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Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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jnowland/Chromatica-Quest
Mar 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:22 pushes in 1 day
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