World Wildlife Foundation (WWF)
Visualising and reporting on Australian deforestation for the WWF
Matt helped the Australian National University and World Wildlife Foundation design and build a first-of-its-kind prototype for visualising forest change across the Australian landscape.
♥️ I'm proud of...
- Pairing directly with a developer to 'prototype in code' & sharing a functional prototype, in code, in a matter of days
- Reacting quickly to live feedback as the needs of the project changed amongst political and social influences
- Simplifying a vision for the product which saved thousands of hours and dollars of development time while still meeting project goals
- Defining a roadmap for the WWF to enable them to seek funding to develop the platform further
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Selected Work
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Gallery of design artefacts
A 20+ year collection of design artefacts
GALLERY
Saving the Australian Red Cross hundreds of thousands of dollars in technology investment in Web 3.0 and blockchain for the social sector
Australian Red Cross
SOCIAL SERVICES
Better health knowledge, faster, at a global scale
Covidence
HEALTH
Helping communities around the world prevent the spread of mosquito-borne disease
World Mosquito Project
HEALTH
Strategy and systems design for monitoring human rights in immigration detention
Bonigi Monitoring
HUMAN RIGHTS
Foundational design and research for Australia's fastest growing electric-vehicle charging network
Chargefox
ENERGY
Modernising fishery compliance systems for commercial fishers and fishing regulators
NSW Dept. of Primary Industries
CLIMATE
Bringing biodiversity back to the Australian landscape at scale
Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment, and Water
CLIMATE
Helping Cogent become Australia's leading start-up design and technology consultancy with successful exit to Block Inc.
Cogent
LEADERSHIP
Fractional Head of Design services to give Good Human a path to design team stability and growth
GoodHuman
LEADERSHIP
Visualising and reporting on Australian deforestation for the WWF
WWF
CLIMATE
Always was, always will be
I have lived and worked my whole life on Gadigal (Sydney) and Wurundjeri (Melbourne) land, in Australia. I acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which I do my work and I pay my respects to elders past & present. I acknowledge the sorrow of the stolen generations and the impacts of colonisation on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. I support the Uluru Statement of the Heart and I also recognise the resilience, strength and pride of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Through my work, I aim to help as much as I can to empower and help them thrive.
© Matt Shanks 2010-2025
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