Christopher Deane A design lead who builds, animates, teaches and scales organisations.

I help organisations and teams grow with design systems, product design, motion and AI-driven design engineering to create scalable, customer-obsessed experiences. Currently building Scale and leading design systems at Macquarie Bank.

Clients

All Design Systems
  • Macquarie Bank
  • Commonwealth Bank
  • Trust Bank Singapore
  • Telstra
  • Australian Unity
  • Sonder
  • Forge
  • Virtually Human Studios
  • Luminary
  • Unilever
  • Deloitte
  • EnergyAustralia
  • Rest Super
  • Quantium
  • Clipsal
  • Nurofen
  • Metricon
  • Snooze
  • Brown Brothers
  • Little Birdie

Selected Work

Macquarie Bank

Mobile banking with personality

PayID product designs and animations, OUI design system in action with Liquid Glass in the dashboard, and account opening card components with their new illustration style.

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Macquarie Bank

Security that moves with you

Splash screen, dashboard empty state and onboarding animations for Macquarie Authenticator App.

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Macquarie Bank

One system behind a whole bank

Co-creator and lead of OUI, Macquarie Bank's design system that scales their entire digital division. Supporting brand, product, accessibility and engineering alike.

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The OUI Design System logo

Trust Bank

Designing trust, one component at a time

Design system for Trust, Singapore's digital bank, from foundations in an iOS playground app to the component set the team uses to build every screen.

Snooze

Simplifying product customisation

Created bedBUILDER for Snooze, letting customers design their dream bed by mixing and matching a range of features.

Melbourne Design and Communicator Awards.

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Rest

Making super feel tangible

3D onboarding animations, and product design for the Rest Superannuation App.

Commonwealth Bank

Faster payments with context

The first time I designed PayID was for CBA, who were the first to market with this feature, where I animated its Lottie icons in After Effects.

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The Brown Brothers website home page

Brown Brothers

E-commerce with a style of its own

A distinctive, highly stylised e-commerce site for Brown Brothers, with a visual filter that helps customers discover the range.

Webby Honouree, Davey, Melbourne Design and Communicator Awards.

Personal

Scale Design System

A Design System that helps individuals and organisations scale. Built with AI and run by Agents. Its Lit web components are open source, with paid versions for Figma and Framer.

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Education

Teaching design systems, animation and AI to 14K members.

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Recognition

  • Communicator Awards (30)
  • Melbourne Design Awards (9)
  • W3 Awards (5)
  • Australian Web Awards (3)
  • Kentico Awards (3)
  • The Webby Awards (2)
  • Global Awards (2)
  • Effie Awards (1)
  • Sydney Design Awards (1)
  • Davey Awards (1)
  • Legal Website Awards (1)