CV Last updated 26 May 2026

Hi, I’m Russ.

With 14 years in the industry, I’m a full-service product designer who has delivered multiple products and services to market, working end-to-end from concept through to delivery. I do this by understanding user pain points and business needs while leveraging a user-centred and systems design approach.

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Experience

Senior Product Designer, Midnight Network

Feb 2024 – Dec 2025
  • Discovery, definition, ideation, and design of Glacier Drop; Phase 1 of Midnight's core token distribution event which resulted in over 3.5 billion tokens claimed with 170,000+ wallets from 8 major ecosystems, marking one of the industry's largest token distributions in history.
  • Scavenger Mine (phase 2) drew a subsequent 1 billion tokens via 8 million wallets.

Senior Product Designer, EcoVadis

Feb 2023 – Aug 2023
  • Planned and conducted user interviews with 6 participants to discover pain points, then translating insights into actionable recommendations resulting in reduced support issues and increased customer satisfaction scores.
  • Synthesised UX research findings from interviews and surveys, translating insights into prototypes, then planned and conducted usability studies which led to a 30% improvement in engagement for EcoVadis' core sustainability assessment service.

Senior Product Designer, Target Group

May 2021 – Apr 2022
  • Facilitated cross-functional collaboration and streamlined the design system, resulting in a 30% reduction in delivery time and a 25% increase in team efficiency for Target's core mortgage origination service.
  • Designed multi-channel user flows, templates, and prototypes for two rounds of usability studies to iterate designs based on insights; this contributed to a 25% increase in user satisfaction and a 40% decrease in user errors.
  • Guided and mentored the offshore design team to enhance design skills, improving delivery of exceptional results.

Visiting Tutor, Arts University Bournemouth

Apr 2021 – Present
  • Mentor and tutor to classes of 30+ students on the BA (Hons) Visual Communication course.

Product Designer, IOHK

Jun 2020 – Apr 2021
  • Led end-to-end research, design, and testing efforts resulting in the successful launch of Marlowe on the Cardano Testnet, a powerful smart contract application for consumers, as well as a cloud-based IDE for developers.

Senior UX/UI Designer, ITF Tennis

Apr 2019 – Jan 2020
  • Drove the successful overhaul of the ITF's website, focusing on accessibility and pioneering a brand-led mobile-first design system. This led to a 57% increase in mobile usage and an additional 230,000 resource downloads.

Senior UX/UI Designer, Dyson

Aug 2016 – Sep 2018
  • Led the website redesign for Dyson's charitable arm, prioritising a mobile-first design, and a seamless resource booking experience. This led to a 22% increase in mobile adoption and resource bookings grew from 26 to 163 in the first quarter.
  • Built and led a team of three designers to launch the newly-released UK e-commerce website to the Canadian market; resulting in the fastest rollout of any market on the digital transformation project.

Lead UX/UI Designer, Avado

Sep 2014 – Jul 2016
  • Led the UX/UI design for the highly acclaimed Squared Online e-learning program, co-created with Google. This led to the expansion of the business into APAC and DACH.

Tool kit

  • Pencil
  • Paper
  • Claude/Codex
  • HTML + CSS + JS
  • Miro
  • Adobe CC
  • Figma
  • GitHub
  • Dovetail
  • Codens
  • Notion
  • Ice axe

Clients

  • Midnight Network
  • IOHK
  • Dyson
  • Google
  • L’Oréal
  • Lloyds Bank
  • ITF Tennis
  • John Lewis
  • The Body Shop
  • EcoVadis
  • Avado
  • Munich Airport

Education and awards

BA (Hons) Visual Communication — First class

Arts University Bournemouth · 2012

aub.ac.uk

Highly Commended

Mortgage Hub · MFG Awards · 2021

Best Online Distance Learning Program

Squared Online · E-Learning Awards · 2014

D&AD New Blood Nominee

Windows Phone 8 · D&AD New Blood · 2012