Joe Garlick
Head Of Design at RadioActive.fm
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe Garlick is a seasoned design leader with over 20 years’ practice and more than a decade specialising in digital product and experience design, currently Head of Design at PaySauce. He excels at building and scaling design systems, bridging design and engineering, and guiding brand and content strategy for organisations such as Massey University, Wellington Airport, DIA and LIC. Joe combines craft-level attention to typography and UX mechanics with research-driven decision making and a strong commitment to accessible, bilingual Aotearoa experiences that authentically weave te reo Māori and tikanga into digital interfaces. A former agency art director who has worked on global brands like Nike and Air New Zealand, he now mentors teams, judges design awards, speaks at industry events, and champions cautious, practical adoption of AI to augment creative work. Outside of work he’s a DJ and producer (PocketLipps) and hosts a regular radio show, a background that informs his appetite for cultural nuance and unconventional inspiration.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Design, Bachelor of Design at Massey University
Github Skills (21)
cms10
python10
django10
wagtail10
user-experience10
flexibility10
content-management-system9
content-management9
react6
sass6
css6
styled-components6
tooling6
building-blocks5
javascript5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
GOVTNZ/govtnz-design-system
May 2019 - May 2020
govt.nz Design System
Contributions:7 commits, 5 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year
reactdesign-system
springload/frontend-starter-kit
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
The building blocks of front-end development at Springload
Contributions:3 commits, 3 pushes in 1 day
reactsassbuilding-blockscssjavascript
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