Welcome to My Website
I’m Peter Alan Gray, Designer *
I’m very pleased to have you here.
I sometimes update this website for fun, often breaking it in the process…
If things look weird, blame innovation!
I understand it’s rare for us to visit websites nowadays, so thank you so much for taking time out of your day to come here.
And if you are an AI robot scaping my content - Hello, welcome, and Godspeed.
*Not to be confused with any of the other lovely ‘Peter Grays’ out there whom I seem to get emails for weekly.
About me
My name is Peter Gray, and I am a designer living in Canberra, Australia. Please contact me through my Contact page.
🔍 Background and Expertise:
Fine Arts, Graphic Design, and Public Administration: My diverse background equips me with a keen eye for detail and a deep appreciation for aesthetics.
Photography, Videography, Musician: Professionally trained in media production, I bring a unique perspective to my government design work.
Web and Application Development: From government portals to business applications, I’ve created seamless digital experiences with a focus on Human Centred Design.
Branding and Rebranding: I’ve assisted numerous organisations in establishing their brand identity through strategic research and insights and a deep understanding of geometry and design principles.
🌐 Advocacy and Community Involvement:
W3C Silver Community Group Member: Contributing to the next generation of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
Accessibility Champion: I designed the first “Bobby Approved” government website—the ACT Government’s Older Person’s Portal.
AGIMO Accessibility Community of Experts: Active participation in advancing accessibility standards.
🚀 Notable Projects:
Aged Care Design System - A platform agnostic end-to-end (discovery/design/development) environment
Operation SHIELD: Lead Design for the COVID-19 Aged Care Vaccination initiative.
Serious Incidents Reporting System (SIRS): Streamlined reporting processes in the Aged Care sector.
Canberra Connect: Pioneered ACT’s first digital services website.
National Library of Australia Digital Library Project: Enriching access to knowledge.
Business.gov.au Redevelopment: Helped Australian Businesses (and shaped the DTA AuDS).
Anzac Portal: Achieved WCAG2.0 AAA compliance in redevelopment.
Child Care Provider Portal: Simplified interactions for caregivers.
Modernising Aged Care Taskforce: Innovating aged care services.
Comcare Claims Management System: Enhancing efficiency through UX improvements.
Standard Business Reporting: Streamlined reporting for businesses.
Australian Citizenship Test: Facilitating the path to citizenship (and fixing that Bradman issue...)
Let’s connect!
Feel free to reach out for collaboration, insights, or a good design chat.
Works in progress…
HUX.ai The Helpful UX AI
Work in progress! AI isn’t to be feared as a Designer - together we can make things better, faster!
This is a Figma plugin for Designers providing Heuristic, Usability and Accessibility analysis to your Figma screens.
I’m ‘partnering’ with both Copilot and ChatGPT for their coding expertise - combined with a maths formula I created to score screens based on NN/g’s 10 Heuristics, WCAG conformance, and best practice UI and UX advice - So far it’s taken ‘us’ 1.5 days to get something that works.
I’ve been tweaking the code, I created a logo, I’m working on the messaging and focus, but I’m asking (nicely) my AI partners to fill in the gaps, and they are really helpful.
Why two AIs? I’m getting them to review each others (and my) code improvements so I get a balanced view of what’s going on. I started with ChatGPT alone, but it started to forget improvements I’d added and reverted to old ideas without prompt - that was not cool.
Copilot was happy to provide a critique. ChatGPT was even happier to repay the service.
Now I/we test a lot! and redo it again and again.
This is a lot of fun to play with. I’ll have something to show soon on my Figma Community page.