Matt Davies

51.50° N3.58° WSouth Wales

Matt Davies

UX/UI Developer

Available for freelance work

Begin the journey

I design and build websites and web apps that people actually enjoy using, and I make games when nobody's looking.

Mission patches

Work

Two missions, each with its own patch. A short brief here; the full story on its own page.

COLEG PENYBONT · BRIDGEND COLLEGE · UX/UI DEVELOPER · EST. 2022

Mission 01 · Oct 2022 – nowCurrent

Bridgend College

UX/UI Developer

I design, build and run the college's own web apps: five systems used by about 700 staff and over 2,000 students.

  • £23ka year saved
  • 5systems
  • 700staff

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PLUSMOVE · CO-FOUNDER · LEAD DEVELOPER · EST. 2021

Mission 02 · May 2021 – now · part-timeCurrent

PlusMove

Co-founder and Lead Developer

A fitness and CrossFit competition platform I co-founded, across the web, mobile and custom scoring hardware.

  • 146pilot users
  • 3platforms
  • 6-weekprogrammes

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Both missions still running.

The observatory

Freelance

Websites for clients. Pick a target and the telescope swings round to it.

Lokust Records' front page: the Lokust wordmark in olive on near-black, the label's locust badge, and a marquee along the bottom.

Target 01Live

Lokust Records

A home for an independent label: new releases, where to listen, the story so far and a mailing list. Chunky type, marquees and a record you can play with.

Type
Independent record label
Year
2026

Explore the project Visit the live site

WildAboutFilm's front page: a featured review on yellow, then fresh reviews on blue, each with a still from the film.

Target 02Live

WildAboutFilm

A film diary with reviews and star ratings, laid out on a Mondrian grid of yellow, blue and red.

Type
Film diary and reviews
Year
2026

Explore the project Visit the live site

PlusMove's front page: Fitness on Display in bold white and green over an overhead shot of a CrossFit competition, with a lane's LED scoreboard showing 30 reps.

Target 03Live

PlusMove

The site for PlusMove's LED scoring displays, hired out to fitness competitions: live scores in every lane and on every erg. Big, bold type in black and PlusMove green, with the displays front and centre.

Type
LED scoring displays for fitness events
Year
2026

Explore the project Visit the live site

12% formed

Target 04Coming soon

Site #4

Still forming. Name, colours and link land here when it goes live.

The Galaxy of Games

Games

2.5 million light years out. Transmissions from when nobody's looking.

Majorem's title: the name in gold over a sunlit village glade. Majorem: the mayor in a top hat on a path through the village, mountains behind. Majorem: a villager chops a tree, with the minimap and the day's clock in the corner. Majorem: blossom trees in a meadow outside the village. Majorem: choosing a building for an empty plot: blacksmith, lumbermill or medium house. Majorem: a quest on the go, its tasks listed top left.

Incoming transmission

Tranzfuser 2021 · Unity · C#

Majorem

A peaceful village-builder. The old mayor has run off and left the village in tatters, so it's up to you: gather resources, build, grow crops, cook and craft, and keep your villagers happy and fed.

Team leader and programmer · Cosy Umbrella, four of us

Explore the game Download on itch.io

Aurora Express: The Mechanic's title screen, in a spaceship corridor. Aurora Express: the engine room, with warnings that a generator needs a new rotor. Aurora Express: down a corridor of the ship, tool in hand, the time to arrival counting down. Aurora Express: the end screen, congratulating you on a successful journey of 250,000 km.

Transmission

Global Game Jam 2020 · Unity

Aurora Express: The Mechanic

You're the only passenger on the Aurora Express, and it's falling apart. Parts break, their spares turn up somewhere aboard, and anything left broken wears the ship down faster: keep it together until you arrive.

Explore the game Play it on itch.io

Nth Loop's title screen, named for the player: Josh's 3rd loop. Nth Loop: platforms in a purple cave, crystals to collect. Nth Loop: Press E to grab the Crystal of Power. Nth Loop: a giant crystal hangs over a dark cavern. Nth Loop: leaping between rocky ledges. Nth Loop: the cave goes dark and blue. Nth Loop: the end of a loop, with the session's stats and the credits.

Transmission

2D platformer · Unity

[PlayerName]'s Nth Loop

Dying means nothing here, for now. Find your way through the world and collect every crystal to break out of the time loop. The title is yours: it takes the name you give it.

Explore the game Play it on itch.io

Everything on itch.io

Crew deck

About

Placeholder for a photo of Matt.
Crew
Matthew Davies
Role
UX/UI developer
Base
South Wales
Mission
Websites, web apps and games

I'm Matt, a UX/UI developer in South Wales. Away from the screen you'll find me stargazing, bouldering at the climbing wall, at a game jam or losing at table football.

Get in touch

Pointing at Astronomy Clear nights, cold hands

Things Matt does when the laptop is shut. Spin the stars, or swing the ring and its pointer round them; each turns freely. Or pick a star.