Andre Kakos

Andre is our Head of Digital Experience specialising in Human-centred Design methodologies. He delivers solutions that live on that rarified ground where User Needs (Desirability) meet Business Objectives (Viability) and best practice Technology (Feasibility).

Projects

Aerial view of beaches and coastline
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Morpht built the Australian Hydrographic Office's new GovCMS website on a condensed schedule, making charts, Notices to Mariners and tide tables easier to find.
Family walking hand in hand into the sunset
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Morpht delivered the Defence and Veterans' Services Commission website in six weeks for its launch, built to WCAG 2.2 AA with a reusable consultation webform.
Clown fish in coral
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Morpht rebuilt the Reef Knowledge System on GovCMS SaaS with a Resource Hub, topic navigation and personalised recommendations. Runner-up in two Splash Awards.
School of fish
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Morpht moved Reef Guardian Schools to GovCMS SaaS with 382 schools and 800+ users, no re-registration, and a secure resource library just for teachers.
MDSAP medical device factory
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Morpht created a new brand and award-winning website for the Medical Device Single Audit Program, with a document library searchable without document codes.
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Morpht rebuilt the Department of Defence's DATE website around user journeys, with a new Tactics Hub. Half of its traffic now comes from overseas partners.
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Morpht redesigned the National Office for Child Safety website in under three weeks for a national campaign. Page views then rose 745% in three weeks.
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Morpht built the Respect@Work website for the Australian Human Rights Commission, using privacy-safe personalisation to show employers and workers what applies.
TGA scientists in lab
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Morpht rebuilt the TGA website on GovCMS, turning 95,000+ ARTG records into searchable pages and cutting 71 content types to 49 for 5.5 million monthly users.
City and people graphic
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The CGC website is based on Convivial for GovCMS and includes document containers and file collections; as well as an interactive map of Australia.
Food inspection
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Morpht moved the NSW Food Authority website to GovCMS, migrating 8,000+ pages and files. Traffic rose 9.7% year on year and time on page increased by 44%.
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Morpht moved the Attorney-General's Department website from SharePoint to GovCMS, organising 1,200 pages and 6,000+ publications into nine searchable sections.
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Morpht connected NSW Trustee and Guardian's CRM, booking portal, Google Maps and Drupal, so pop-up service locations publish and expire automatically.

Articles

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André Kakos & Matt Commons presented Unifying the UX pipeline at DrupalSouth Community Day, Canberra, 7 November 2025. They highlighted how their UX and UI workflows and processes are unified to deliver efficiencies through the discovery and design phases of a new site build.
Unifying the
UX pipeline
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This presentation delves into the pros and cons of PDF vs HTML format on Government sites, looking at when PDF is a viable option and techniques for designing content without them.
PDF or not to PDF!
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Morpht is looking forward to attending and participating in the Mega Meetup. We’re excited about catching up with clients and friends and getting to talk about why we’ve all been so busy this year. So drop in and say hi!
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A UX playbook for how to implement personalisation into a Drupal considering user research, discovery of user goals and the definition of user pathways and journeys through the site.
Football field playbook.
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Design trends come and go. We can’t help but adopt some of these trends by building solutions on our Drupal starter site Convivial to be ready for your next big site redesign. 
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Morpht would like to extend a big welcome to the newest member of the team, André Kakos, Digital Experience Lead.
Andre Kakos