Martin Wright*

My name is Martin,

human centred

designer for hire

I design complex digital products and services where clarity, trust, and delivery matter.

Human centred design

I design products and services to solve real problems with the people most affected, through understanding, collaboration, and inclusion.

Design leadership

I’ve led and supported teams of all sizes across a wide range of sectors, helping people do important, impactful work under real constraints.

UX & digital strategy

I help teams and organisations use digital systems to overcome complexity, reach the right audiences, and deliver meaningful outcomes.

Next availability from early 2026. Get in touch

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Featured projects

Flowchart with three interconnected circles labeled 'Fund Engagement,' 'Access Funding,' and 'Report Funding Progress,' with arrows showing the cycle among them.
a blue, pink, and green shape and the text 'ecosyste.ms'

Organisations I’ve worked with

Logos of various organisations including UK Ministry of Housing, Dropbox, Médecins Sans Frontières, Google, NHS England, and The King's Fund.
Collection of logos for organisations including National Highways, Recycle, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, University of Oxford, WWF, RNIB, and others.

Blog

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One year of freelance

Notes and lessons from my first year working for myself — money, rejection, overwork, and the ongoing experiment of doing what you love for a living.

Mapping is thinking

We often treat maps as deliverables, neat, tidy artefacts to show what we’re building. But the value of mapping isn’t in the artefact. The value of mapping is in getting there. The process of making the map is what helps us think, collaborate and move a problem forwards.

Designing the ecosyste.ms brand

I recently had the pleasure of designing the brand and identity for ecosyste.ms and promised myself I’d keep track as we went so that I could write a blog post about. Here’s me fulfilling that promise to myself…

About

I’m a designer with twenty years’ extensive and celebrated experience designing websites and services for clients including central and local government, healthcare, charity, and the private sector.

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