About

Bio

Hi! I'm Nic. I build websites, draw pictures and this is my little home on the internet. I'm based in Hong Kong, but I've had 9+ years of experience working with people all across the globe!

Career Highlights

  • I've been a freelancer for 9+ years, with hundreds of completed projects and dozens of happy clients.
  • I'm a member of the W3C Maps4HTML Community Group, and have co-authored the Use Cases and Requirements for Standardizing Web Maps report.
  • I'm particularly passionate about web accessibility
  • I've been published at one of my favorite web publications, Smashing Magazine
  • I've spoken at 3 events and counting!

Testimonials

Henny Swan, Director at Tetralogical

We worked with Nic on a set of page layout and component changes to improve readability and make large amounts of content easier to manage. She understood the brief straight away and was clear about what to tackle first and why, which made the process straightforward from the outset...

Andy Bell, Set Studio

Nic is one of those people that you can really depend on. Everything they touch turns to gold and the standard of their work is in a completely different league to everyone else’s.

Laurel Bybee, Senior Product Designer at Classy

We are grateful to Nic for sharing her wealth of knowledge on accessibility best practices. It’s a great talent she has to be able to speak a language that both engineers and designers can easily understand and incorporate into their work.

Jeff Singleton, Principal at Converge Accessibility

In our opinion, she is the person you want to help with accessibility remediation on Shopify.

Brooke Xiang, Mentee

It is an understatement to say that Nic is a pleasure to work with. She consistently brings eagerness, patience, humility, and emotional intelligence to our mentoring sessions, and she never fails to go above and beyond by finding additional resources that are relevant to my questions and interests...

Peter Rushforth, Maps for HTML Chair

Nic does great work, she's a pleasure to work with, and is an extremely talented developer.

Marianne Ferguson, Colleague at Alt & Dot

Nic is hands-down one of the most talented developers I have worked with. Her technical expertise is second to none — when I ask Nic for advice on how to approach a problem, I know she'll offer an informed solution that is both creative and highly pragmatic...

Nic Chan

Aww thanks everyone! I really appreciate you all taking the time to write me a testimonial. 😍