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Sunlit studio workspace with tables and plants

Product designer · Systems thinker

Opal
Lumen

I turn complex products into calm, useful experiences people can understand and return to.

Based in Northline / RemoteFocus Digital products, service systems

Profile

01 / 06

For the past decade, I have helped early-stage and established teams find the signal inside complicated ideas. My work sits between research, product strategy and interface craft, with a bias toward clear decisions and durable systems.

Selected work

02 / 06
Civic / 2024

Wayfinder service map

Reframed a fragmented public-service journey into a clearer set of moments, language and handoffs.

Climate / 2023

Fieldnote platform

Created a flexible research workspace that lets distributed teams turn observations into decisions.

Finance / 2022

Quiet Ledger

Designed a calmer operating model for independent businesses managing irregular income.

Experience

03 / 06
2021 — now

Independent product designer / Northline Studio

Partner with founders and product teams from first principles through shipped experience, balancing strategic framing with hands-on interface design.

2017 — 2021

Senior experience designer / Common Thread

Led cross-functional discovery and design for digital services across civic, climate and financial wellbeing projects.

2014 — 2017

Visual designer / Morrow & Co.

Built identities, editorial systems and early product foundations for a small portfolio of purpose-led organisations.

Capabilities

04 / 06

Frame

Research direction, service mapping, product strategy, workshop design

Make

Interaction design, prototyping, visual systems, accessible UI

Move

Design critique, team rituals, stakeholder alignment, delivery planning

Tools

Figma, FigJam, Principle, Notion, and a well-used sketchbook

Education

05 / 06

BA, Communication Design · Westbridge School of Art

2010 — 2014

Next conversation

06 / 06

Good work starts with a useful question. If you are shaping a product or service and need a clearer path through it, I would be glad to hear what you are working on.