About

Background

I’m a Principal Product Designer with over 20 years of experience designing digital products across fintech, enterprise SaaS, ecommerce and emerging AI-enabled platforms.

My background spans the full product lifecycle, from research and systems thinking through to prototyping, design systems and production-ready delivery. I work best in fast-moving environments where products evolve quickly, requirements shift frequently and teams need to balance user needs with technical, operational and compliance constraints.

Over the past several years I’ve focused on enterprise platforms, digital identity and design-to-code workflows. My process increasingly moves between design tools and code. I’ll often sketch ideas and directions in Figma, then move into code to build out the design system directly in React. From there, flows and interfaces are designed using the live product components themselves rather than static handoff files.

I work closely with engineers throughout the process, using AI tooling to speed up iteration, prototyping and implementation. Increasingly, my workflow is centred around design in code, reducing the gap between concept, system design and production-ready UI.

I’ve worked with organisations including Xertilox, Lloyds Banking Group, Worldpay, John Lewis, HSBC, eBay and Amazon.

Core skills

Research and framing

Plan and run interviews, focus groups and surveys to understand users and contexts

Synthesis that defines problems, scope and success measures

Translate insights into a clear product and design strategy

Experience design

User-centred flows, wireframes and prototypes that validate assumptions early

Journey maps, personas and scenarios that guide decisions

Structured content and interaction patterns that scale across channels

Visual design and systems craft

Pixel-perfect UI with strong typography, layout and hierarchy

Design systems with tokenised colour, type and spacing using Figma variables

Component libraries with usage guidance, variants and accessibility notes

Prototyping and delivery

High-fidelity prototypes in Figma and code via Cursor using MPC server

Production-ready specs for developer handover

Accessibility to WCAG 2.2 AA as a baseline 

Collaboration and leadership

Confident communicator with stakeholders and senior leaders

Close collaboration with Product Managers, Product Owners and Engineers

Able to lead multiple projects, mentor designers and keep teams aligned in Agile environments

Tech stack

Pen & paper

Miro

Figma

Rive

Cursor

GitHub

Chat GPT5

Claude

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