Summary
Justin Spencer is a Digital Design Director based in Greater Sydney with over twenty years of hands-on visual design experience and more than a decade leading digital design at enterprise scale. He established and continues to evolve Westpac Group’s multi-brand design system (GEL), an open-source UI framework and documentation that now underpins every digital product across the bank and is widely respected globally. Justin’s background spans advertising, media and finance—translating complex brands into cohesive digital experiences for organizations like News Limited, Fairfax, Nissan and GlaxoSmithKline. He combines art direction, UI craft and front-end stewardship, regularly mentoring teams and shaping design practices from concept through production. Less obvious is his track record of turning agency-style creative rigor into durable design systems that scale across product portfolios and engineering teams.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer