“Before, we were a UX agency, a product agency working with a small development team. Now we have HTEC’s technological expertise as a powerhouse behind Momentum. Now we can call upon that knowledge base at any time, and it’s something that our clients love. We’ve got genuine experts who can offer advice and guidance from the earliest stages. We see Momentum as the spearhead of HTEC, where we come into organizations and ask the right questions, and then rely on this immense technological backbone to formulate and implement solutions. We’ve always helped our clients grow from the perspective of design direction, and now we can continue to do so with an educated tech drive. It’s something that I’m excited about, because it helps organizations improve their performance, improve the user experience, thus helping the user and creating greater value for everyone involved. So, any organization that’s willing to listen and adapt is an organization we want to be involved with.”With all the different avenues, alleyways, and detours his career has taken and continues to take, Mark has built himself as a versatile, all-purpose player in the product design arena, capable of contributing and improving things in all aspects of work. Versatility seems second nature to Mark, but we were curious to learn whether there are any aspects of his work that he enjoys over others. “I like those ‘aha’ moments when things click, when you finally understand what is the job to be done. At Momentum, we run internal sessions called ‘What’s the point?,’ where all of our team will sit down for an hour or two and look at a project. We pick it apart and assess what is the point of our work on it, why are we doing this. And sometimes it comes to that crystal clear ‘eureka!’ moment where everything comes into place, and we all understand what we need to be doing. It’s those moments that create excitement, shape the direction that everyone loves, and lead to creating really good products. With Momentum, we’ve been fortunate to work with some amazing clients, including a number of unicorns, who have had great ideas, great direction, and that’s what excites me – being a part of processes that can change the world.” Changing the world is an overused phrase, but it is also one that we don’t take lightly. It speaks to the degree and the impact of work we do daily at HTEC and Momentum. We continue to ask the fundamental question ‘what is the challenge we are trying to resolve?’ and strive to provide and productize meaningful answers. We are delighted to have people like Mark working alongside us, fully confident that together we can find the best answers to the questions to come.