Harry Hextall
Creative Technologist
- Gent, Belgium or Bristol, UK
- hazzahex@gmail.com
- hazzahex.co.uk
- linkedin.com/in/harry-hextall
- github.com/hazzahex
Creative technologist working at the seam between design and engineering. Over a decade spanning product and UX, front-end engineering, and high-end 3D and motion, most recently shipping production software and shaping AI strategy on a high-stakes manufacturing platform. I do my best work on intricate, first-principles problems where design taste and technical depth have to pull in the same direction.
Experience
Oqton
2023 – 2026Design Specialist
Jan 2023 – May 2026- Worked across design and engineering on MOS, Oqton’s Manufacturing Operating System, growing from branding into shipping production software and shaping product direction.
- Product & UX: turned a genuinely complex operating system into interfaces usable daily by floor managers and machine operators, mapping workflows, roles and permissions into durable information architecture.
- Front-end engineering: shipped features across a large TypeScript monorepo, including scheduling and planning views, process grouping and execution workflows, and the shared data logic behind them.
- AI strategy: led adoption of generative AI across the business and defined where AI earns its place in MOS while keeping every suggestion reviewable and respecting existing approval gates and permissions.
- Built the visual language that let engineers, PMs and designers communicate on the same playing field, measurably improving time to value.
Dyson
2015 – 2023Lead Designer
Apr 2022 – Jan 2023- Produced cutting-edge 3D animation across all current and future Dyson NPI categories on a Mac-based render farm, to increasingly short deadlines.
- Built custom automated applications and scripts to streamline design-to-software handover, and prototyped designs on-device in Android Studio (Kotlin/Java) for senior stakeholder reviews.
- Educated colleagues on motion principles and designing for how information moves and changes over time.
Senior Global Motion Graphics & 3D Designer
May 2019 – Apr 2022- Aligned with the New Product Innovation team to conceptualise, develop and produce complex motion graphics and 3D visuals for future Dyson products.
Middleweight 3D Artist
May 2017 – May 2019- Created emotive, detailed Dyson imagery and animation from engineering CAD data for use across global Dyson material.
Graduate 3D Artist
Sep 2015 – May 2017- Produced product animations and rich imagery alongside industry-leading artists, collaborating with engineers to communicate the technology inside Dyson products.
UKarbon Ltd
2013Co-Founder
Sep 2013- Co-founded a brand making precision-cut device skins from premium 3M material, running template design, photography, social, the Shopify storefront, manufacturing and distribution in-house.
Cozy Bay Ltd
2013Graphic Designer
Aug 2013- Conceptualised, drafted and delivered media products and services to deadline.
Education
Bournemouth University
Graduated 2015BA (Hons) Industrial Design
Marlborough College
Graduated 2010Secondary education
Skills & Tools
- Focus
- Product & UX · Information architecture · Design systems · AI strategy & tooling
- Engineering
- TypeScript · JavaScript · React / Next.js · HTML / CSS · Python · Kotlin · Java
- Design
- Figma · Sketch · Photoshop · Illustrator
- 3D & Motion
- After Effects · Maya · V-Ray · Nuke