Jake Dickinson
Designer & developer
Websites with purpose.
A little personality, too.
Designer, developer, and maker of
useful things for the web.
Born from a love of craft beer, Elbow needed a place to start selling online. I designed and built a Shopify website for the cask and craft beer stockist, helping it take that first step into e-commerce.
A complete design and build, focused on bringing an independent shop’s offering to the web.
Drop Coffee is an award-winning roastery in Stockholm. I designed and built its Shopify website, helping the team sell coffee online and ship it to customers around the world.
An e-commerce project for a business with a physical café and an international audience. If you’re in Stockholm, pay them a visit.
Pattern Paste is my library of ready-to-use WordPress block patterns. Find a section, copy it into the editor, and make it your own — from the words and images to the finer layout details.
It brings together my interests in design, development and better editing experiences. Alongside everyday page sections, the library includes full page templates and interactive patterns.
GSAP Vault is my collection of animation effects, UI elements and website templates. It gives developers a working starting point, with source code they can explore, adapt and bring into their own projects.
A home for the motion and interaction side of my work. This portfolio’s draggable arc gallery is adapted from one of the effects in the collection.
TenderTracker brings notices from Find a Tender and Contracts Finder into one searchable feed, making it easier to find relevant UK public sector opportunities.
Alongside contract search, the product brings together buyer information and daily or weekly email alerts to help people keep up with new work.
TalentTech Recruitment brings candidates and employers together across specialist sectors, from technical and technology sales to engineering and marketing.
The website brings together current vacancies, candidate resources and employer services, with clear routes to explore roles or discuss a new hire.
Useful things
built for the web.
Products, side projects,
and what goes into them.
What I built after The Gaffer: a Slack bot that finds everyday information in Basecamp and brings back an answer, the context and a link to its source.
We wanted a bot to post the fantasy football scores each week. It turned into The Gaffer: a Slack regular with opinions on our captain choices and a memory for things we’d rather forget.
Why I’m making free, practical design courses for developers. Small changes, visible results and room to experiment, from visual hierarchy to motion.
Why I built a library of editable WordPress sections, and why the next person changing the page matters as much as the first.
I’m Jake, a designer and developer working across the public and private sectors. I bring design and code together with a focus on the people who use them — and the people who manage them.
I work from the first idea through to launch, with particular care for accessibility, performance, and thoughtful experiences for both visitors and editors.
