I’m Nick, a product designer with 10+ years building complex digital products.

I’m self-taught, with a degree in politics. I didn’t come into design through a traditional route, so before I ever designed interfaces I was trained to think in trade-offs, incentives, and power dynamics, especially in complex systems with incomplete information.


Most of my work sits in complex environments: multi-brand platforms, internal tools at scale, and products that need to stay coherent as teams, features, and organisational pressure grow


What’s kept me here isn’t tools or trends. It’s the work of making products clearer, more resilient, and easier to build and maintain through close collaboration with engineering and leadership.


My focus is on durable UI, design systems, and decision-making that holds up over time, not just at launch.

I’m self-taught, with a degree in politics. I didn’t come into design through a traditional route, so before I ever designed interfaces I was trained to think in trade-offs, incentives, and power dynamics, especially in complex systems with incomplete information.


Most of my work sits in complex environments: multi-brand platforms, internal tools at scale, and products that need to stay coherent as teams, features, and organisational pressure grow


What’s kept me here isn’t tools or trends. It’s the work of making products clearer, more resilient, and easier to build and maintain through close collaboration with engineering and leadership.


My focus is on durable UI, design systems, and decision-making that holds up over time, not just at launch.

Work Experience

Product Design Lead

Armstrong Operations

2022 - Today

Led design for Orbital, a mission-critical internal platform spanning payments, data, localisation, CMS, and operations across multiple regulated brands. Built a token-driven design system embedded directly into production with engineering, creating a stable foundation for scale, governance, and long-term maintenance across five products.

Armstrong Operations

Product Design Lead

2022 - Today

Led design for Orbital, a mission-critical internal platform spanning payments, data, localisation, CMS, and operations across multiple regulated brands. Built a token-driven design system embedded directly into production with engineering, creating a stable foundation for scale, governance, and long-term maintenance across five products.

Product Design Lead

Skilling

2018 - 2022

Joined early and led product design through rapid growth from ~10 to 100+ employees. Rebuilt the core trading platform end-to-end across web and mobile, shipping onboarding, wallets, dashboards, and discovery features for a global user base, while establishing a design system that held together across multiple rebrands.

Skilling

Product Design Lead

2018 - 2022

Product Design / Art Director

Creative Space

2017-2021

Led product design and creative direction across branding, product, and marketing for a fast-paced strategy studio. Owned client work from concept to delivery, translating business goals into clear positioning and shippable outcomes under tight timelines.

Creative Space

Product Design / Art Director

2017-2021

Product Designer

Gaming Innovation Group (GiG)

2017 - 2018

Worked across multiple consumer-facing casino platforms in a high-output, multi-brand environment, contributing to UI, brand, and exploratory UX across both live products and early-stage initiatives.

Gaming Innovation Group (GiG)

Product Designer

2017 - 2018

Product Designer

Gametech Ltd.

2015 - 2017

Started as a junior designer and progressed to leading product design across three core web and mobile products, working directly with engineering to modernise interfaces and interaction patterns as the company scaled toward IPO.

Gametech Ltd.

Product Designer

2015 - 2017

Education

King's COllege London Logo

BA International Relations

King's College London

2010 - 2014

EU Law and International Relations, Political theory, Philosophy, Environmental Risk, Global Governance, Spanish Cinema.


Representative to student committee for European Studies and Spanish. KCL ThinkTank.

King's College London

BA International Relations

2010 - 2014

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ERASMUS

Universidad Complutense de Madrid

2012 - 2013

Poltical Sciences, Poltical Theory, Economics, Philosophy, International Relations, Basque & Catalan Nationalism.

Universidad Complutense de Madrid

ERASMUS

2012 - 2013

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