
Olly Willans
Olly is a Founder Director and the Creative Director at Torchbox. His job is to help our clients achieve fantastic things online.
Olly is ultimately responsible for the design, digital strategy, user experience, and information architecture work at Torchbox. Along with Tom, Olly also fulfils the role of MD at Torchbox.
Olly has led our teams creating award-winning sites and campaigns for a roll-call of the most exciting organisations in the development, health and education sectors. Olly tries to ensure that Torchbox doesn't just meet expectations in our projects, but exceeds them. And, after fifteen years, Olly is just as excited about the Internet's potential as a force for social good as he was in the first dot com days.
Olly leads on our user experience team and is hands on in several UX projects, running workshops, defining IAs, co-creating wireframes, overseeing test programmes, as well as running a programme of ongoing development to ensure that our UX practices are continually evolving.
Olly is a married dad of three. He enjoys sports (cycling, skiing, tennis, cricket, squash), and dabbles with am-dram! He is currently rehearsing for a much anticipated role as the Sheriff of Nottingham, in the Northmoor Village pantomime. To the shame of his son and father-in-law, Olly is only a half-hearted Manchester United supporter.
Olly is Non-Executive Director of the charity Valid Nutrition.
Blog posts by Olly
We're supporting Google, NASA, Oxfam & the NHS on Wagtail, now we can support you too
27 September 2018GDPR compliant? Over one third of charities still need to sort out their data collection before the May deadline.
13 March 2018A design week with California College of the Arts
8 November 2017Introducing our Bristol office
26 September 2016Improve website usability with effective navigation labels
21 June 2016Streamfield solves the content management conundrum
13 July 2015Torchbox's core organisational values
8 January 2015A principled approach for the University of Oxford
7 August 2014Meet Wagtail, our new CMS
24 February 2014Royal College of Art website launched
2 December 2013Adios, Manuel
13 March 2013Cher Président
6 March 2012The Torchbox choir
27 February 2012Major new website for Nuffield Trust
23 February 2012