Hey, I'm Callum Harrod. I design and develop things.

I've got over 10 years of experience working in design, development. I'm currently the lead designer for two projects at Acquia. When I'm not working at Acquia, I'm tinkering with my side projects.

Public

Drupal Canvas

How I designed and helped ship the future of building and editing websites with Drupal

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Acquia Unification

How I'm designing the future of Acquia, a challenging design problem that is the focus of Acquia at the moment

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Acquia AI

How I designed and shipped an MVP for a brand new product in 2 months

Some side projects

Your Next Tale

Crisp Framer Template

Nifty Framer Template

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Experience

My background is a mixture of design and development, used to create wonderful digital experiences.

Senior Product Designer

Acquia /1 year

I'm currently leading two design projects at Acquia. One is to do with AI, the other is about the unification of Acquia's products. Before these projects I was leading the design of Drupal Canvas, the largest Drupal initiative in years. As a product designer, I create intuitive digital experiences in deeply complex problem spaces.

Senior Software Engineer

Acquia / 6 years, 3 Months

There's way more to this story than what I'm about to write. For this role I initially joined as 'Head of training' for a low-code site building tool in Drupal. But this was for the startup that was acquired by Acquia. In this role I've designed websites, designed new features for our product, pitched to and trained customers, taught design systems, and worked as part of a two man team to migrate a 150k line of code Angular app to React.

There's also been a couple of insane stories like building a project over a weekend that lead to us being acquired. Building an entire website on stage at Acquia Engage. Or recording me building an entire website in a day to land a new customer.

Front-end Web Designer

We Make Websites / 4 Months

Okay, it may look like I've not stuck at this job long, but it didn't stop me having a brilliant impact. In this job I worked on multiple Shopify websites. I helped design new features, and I worked on developing them too. I designed one of my favourite sites I've ever worked on and before leaving I was awarded with employee of the month (I still have the trophy to prove it).

UI/UX Designer & Developer

Pragmatic / 1 year, 11 Months

I moved to this company originally as a developer. I was experience with WordPress, and I helped create some brilliant websites using PHP, Advanced Custom Fields, and good ol' front-end development. After for doing this for around a year, I moved to the design team, as I worked with design outside of my day job. From here I worked with the likes of Bacardi on some fundamental UX work, still used today on all of their websites.

Web Developer

UnitedUS / 6 years, 3 Months

My first job out of University! Here I worked on some incredible sites for small and large businesses alike. Here I worked on full-stack WordPress development (not divi builder, don't worry). Here I was shown how important good design was in making brilliant websites. This was a perfect place to start my career.