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Paul Waller - Designer

Paul Waller

Designer

Paul creates beautiful designs from abstract technical concepts, and digital experiences that leave customers delighted. He always starts with his favourite technology stack - pen and paper - so he can sketch ideas before realisation. From 3D to print, UX to illustration, Paul brings passion and flair to his work. Not to mention a bit of 'cycling chic'.

Meet Paul

Paul Waller

Paul has over 20 years of creative experience in design, and delivering user and customer experiences across 3D, print, and digital disciplines. As endjin’s designer, Paul enables customers and the team to visualise abstract concepts. Whether it’s UX, or dashboards for financial and retail services, television props for the Great British Menu, illustrations and animations for promotion and marketing campaigns, or logos and iconography for design systems, Paul is responsible for making concepts look and feel great, in a way our customers can understand.

Paul’s blog

How to enable data teams with the design assets required for impactful data storytelling in Power BI

How to enable data teams with the design assets required for impactful data storytelling in Power BI

Paul Waller

In this post we will talk through how to expand on a data team's creative skillset, without access to specialist photo editing software such as Photoshop or Illustrator.
How to Create Custom Buttons in Power BI

How to Create Custom Buttons in Power BI

Paul Waller

In this post we will talk through a step-by-step guide for how to design and build custom buttons in Power BI. We'll start with the basic foundations of shape and form, to applying icons, states, and actions with the view to extending your brand collateral across your report design and UI.
Visualising Technical Content - How we Design our Blog Headers

Visualising Technical Content - How we Design our Blog Headers

Paul Waller

In this post we will be talking about our graphic process from conception to finalisation. We will look at Icons, Pictograms, Ideogram, and how we utilise this form of design to illustrate abstract technical concepts within our blog header graphics.
How to Build a Branded Power BI Report Theme

How to Build a Branded Power BI Report Theme

Paul Waller

This is the first post in a series where we begin to explore how to translate a companies brand and visual identity into Power BI report, and how adopting a new platform could mean that you need to extend your visual identity and brand language to include Power BI
Generating custom themes in Power BI – A designer's perspective

Generating custom themes in Power BI – A designer's perspective

Paul Waller

Its good to feel challenged and pushed out of your comfort zone. In this post I talk about custom Power BI theme and share some handy tips for styling Power BI reports.
Guardian Masterclass - An introduction to Data Visualisation

Guardian Masterclass - An introduction to Data Visualisation

Paul Waller

A few years ago, I attended a Guardian 1-day Masterclass - Introduction to Data Visualisation. What I did not know then was that it would have a profound effect on how I view design. This blog is a recap of that day and reference points to consider when designing and creating graphics for data visualisation.
Depositing Cheques via a Mobile Banking Experience

Depositing Cheques via a Mobile Banking Experience

Paul Waller

It is possibly that I have only recently discovered one of my favourite pieces of UX whilst on lockdown - Mobile cheques deposits via digital imaging in my banking app. In this short post I share my experience of discovering a simple but practical piece of UX that made me happy.
A Bit of a Christmas Do in the Country with Benchpeg

A Bit of a Christmas Do in the Country with Benchpeg

Paul Waller

In 2016, endjin redesigned the Benchpeg website, migrating it from a 10-year-old platform over to our own CMS system - Vellum – so the Benchpeg team could have greater control over their content management and halve the day-to-day workload for generating content. This is a creative post about the practical experiences gained from 1-day silversmithing workshop at the invitation of Benchpeg.
Bermondsey barber gets a website for Christmas after featuring in Time Out London

Bermondsey barber gets a website for Christmas after featuring in Time Out London

Paul Waller

Journalist Danielle Goldstein interviewed local barber Vangelos Georgiou, who has been cutting hair at George Gents' Hairdresser on Bermondsey street (near endjin's old office) since 1970. In the Time Out London article, Georgiou mentioned that he didn't have a phone or website because of the expense. The team at endjin spotted the article and decided to step in and help - building him a new website to help attract and inform customers.
Reasons to: Round up of the Sessions I Attended

Reasons to: Round up of the Sessions I Attended

Paul Waller

The 3-day "Reasons To" conference was held in Brighton in September 2016. The conference is a fusion of disciplines: design, development, illustration, 3D modelling and data visualisation to name a few. In this post Paul Waller provides an overview of the sessions he attended and the ideas that really sparked his imagination.
Designing for television: food safe props for The Great British Menu 2014

Designing for television: food safe props for The Great British Menu 2014

Paul Waller

Throughout endjin's history we have been invited to work on a host of projects. In late 2013 we were asked if we could produce a series of graphics props for the Great British Menu 2014. In this post we talk about the research and production methods behind developing graphics for television.
High-Res Prototyping Tips: How we eliminated waste and enabled collaboration

High-Res Prototyping Tips: How we eliminated waste and enabled collaboration

Paul Waller

At endjin we believe in collaboration and the ability to pull together expertise and ideas. In this post we talk about the collaborative efforts between designers and developers the importance of communication, a step by step guide followed by some handy tips.
It's more than just merchandise: Developing a visual language

It's more than just merchandise: Developing a visual language

Paul Waller

Laying the foundations to build a brand doesn't happen overnight. At endjin it taken many years to develop our brand look and tone of voice. In this post we talk about developing our visual language so that we can maintain a consistent look and feel across all our collateral.
Live by the sword: A practical approach to our own digital strategy

Live by the sword: A practical approach to our own digital strategy

Paul Waller

7 years ago, feels like a lifetime - for you eldest it is - but this was when endjin took the first steps in refreshing our website promoting our cloud expertise and mobile first responsive design. In this post we talk about our strategic, creative, prototyping and production processes to deliver our website and enforce our brand.