Design Leader & Entrepreneur

Passionate about design and people, creating the very best product experiences and teams

Research-led Design vision & strategy

Shaping discovery with customer insights, journey maps, and vision concepts grounded in continuous research.

Cross-functional leadership

Driving strategy by aligning with product, engineering, and business leaders to streamline processes and achieve goals.

Enhancing with Psychology

Applying cognitive principles to unlock progress when data is scarce, building smarter solutions rooted in behaviour.

Driving design culture in business

Inspiring collaboration and growth by uniting designers to champion design and share knowledge across the organisation.

Building teams and skillsets

Developing transparent frameworks that empower teams to grow, take ownership, and elevate design standards.

Incorporating business in design thinking

Balancing user and business needs to show how design impacts customer experience and key business outcomes.

Experience

  • Global - Lead Product Designer

    Led product design for an omni-channel product, managing a team of six. Boosted efficiency with design and AI tools, delivering features that enhanced user acquisition, engagement and retention. Introduced career frameworks and collaborated with leadership to align design with business goals.

  • Busuu - Lead Product Designer

    Built and managed an international Product Design team for global B2C and B2B markets. Shaped product strategy with C-Suite, enhanced accessibility to a 90% AA rating, and implemented a design system for consistency and efficiency. Introduced research repositories and high-performing processes to support teams and inform business decisions.

  • Papier - Lead Product Designer

    Managed and grew a Product Design team in a fast-scaling business. Shaped design direction, developed product strategy with the CPO, and improved processes for design and research. Led hands-on feature development and research to enhance customer insights and drive product confidence.

  • Photobox - Lead Product Designer

    Led Product Design for the retail journey and product creation, managing a small team while mentoring across the wider design team. Established and scaled a design system used by engineering and marketing, and delivered high-performing features across the user experience.

  • Zoopla - Senior Product Designer

    Led a full redesign of the Zoopla experience across all platforms, creating a scalable design system for Product and Marketing. Collaborated with Marketing to evolve the brand and ran extensive research to deepen understanding of diverse customer archetypes.

Tools & Businesses

  • Product Design Career Development Framework

    Created to give individuals and teams transparency on how to progress as a Product Designer.

    Get the template

  • UXology - Coming soon

    A new product I’m developing for learning how to apply behavioural psychology to UX design, utilising a method I’ve create myself for combining multiple principles and biases.

    Sign up to the beta

  • Wild & Free Occult Apparel

    I started up an alternative clothing brand, printing illustrations I design on the product. The products ship worldwide using developed partnerships.

    Visit the store