How I began my product design journey
I’ve always been intrigued by the world of finance and so I studied Business Administration and majored in Banking and Finance at the university. In the four years post-university that I worked in banking and wealth management, I gained invaluable insights into how financial systems work. As time went on, it became natural to be drawn to the world of technology given the pace at which it was changing everything in the industry I knew. I wanted to know more about the many parts that come together to form a digital product, and would constantly critique the user experience of these products.```
In 2019, I made the decision to pivot fully into the field of product design after spending a year learning and practicing user experience and interface design as a freelancer. It was a transformative shift that pushed me onto a path of innovation and creativity. Since then, I have dedicated myself to becoming a skilled and knowledgeable product designer and I am currently studying for an MA in User Experience Design at Falmouth University.
I currently work with Monterail, a renowned Polish software house as a Product Designer. Through this company, I’ve had the opportunity to work on impactful products, one of which is currently used by industry leaders such as Airbus, FLSmidth, Orsted, and Aalborg Forsyning. These collaborations have been a highlight of my career so far and have solidified my passion for leveraging technology to drive impactful change.
What I'm curious about
I’m generally curious about problem spaces that have the potential to connect value between people, products and profit (in my own words, 3P Spaces). TranscribeGlass (wearable subtitle glasses to assist deaf people) and Safaricom (pioneers of mobile money technology) are good examples of companies operating in this space.
For instance, while developing Knot, our internal open banking tool at Tribe (a fintech startup I founded which has now been shut down), we observed the challenges posed by cumbersome sign-up and onboarding processes for digital products in regulated spaces. Together with two engineers, we birthed Oval to mainly explore the problem and see if we can find a way around it. Oval is simply an operating system for personal data, providing a secure and verifiable platform for individuals to store, manage, and share their personal information with third party apps. Oval, I think, could be a player in one of such 3P spaces. I loosely shared a summary of our purpose and research findings for Oval in a blog post available below.
WHAT I DO