Today is the first day of the rest of my life.

With such a clichéd title to this first blog post it’s hard to start without explaining the reason for such a post.
Last Friday was my last day in the service of  Snow Valley, experts in e-commerce. I had spent 3 years on the UX team helping them deliver the front-end aspect of various sites for various High Street and Boutique retailers. I was brought in as a junior and was allowed to cut my teeth at ‘the Valley’ but in time my job role veered away from the design side of things and more into the technical area of UX. This happened more as a matter of circumstance than anything else and for a while I was happy to focus and learn more of this particular skillset. However, this was not something that could last and my urges to design more, and become once again a more rounded UX designer have prevailed!
This is why I’m writing this blog post, that’s why I’m going to give freelancing a really good bash and hope to pursue a Masters in the following year. I left Snow Valley on good terms and I will miss working there. I wish them the best of success and I hope the sentiment is truly reciprocated. For now though, I will be writing this blog to update those that read it, on my progress; showing how my personal website develops and to publicise any other projects I am working on.
Exciting times ahead and a lot of work involved…