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Brian Laughlan

Full-Stack Product Designer & AI Strategist

€1,400/day
Zurich, CH
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Brian

Most digital products don't lose users because they look bad. They lose them because they feel ordinary, and ordinary doesn't get remembered, recommended, or charged a premium for. I take products that already look good and make them feel exceptional.

I'm a full-stack product designer with 15+ years experience. I design the UI/UX, write the clean front-end code that ships it exactly as intended, and build the AI workflows that make the product, and the team behind it, move faster. Three skill sets, one operator.

That last part matters more than it sounds. Design, front-end, and automation normally sit with three people, and products lose time and fidelity in every handoff. When one person owns the whole loop, decisions get made once, the original intent survives to production, and you ship in a fraction of the time.

As an AI strategist, I don't just automate tasks, I help you find where AI creates an edge and where it's noise, which user journeys to rethink, which workflows to automate, which features will differentiate you.

Where I can help your team:
  • Product & UI design: intuitive, considered interfaces that make your product feel trustworthy and well-built
  • Branding: a new identity built from the ground up for a launch, or a refresh when your current brand no longer matches how far the product has come
  • Feature innovation: reimagining user journeys and pinpointing the specific features that set you apart
  • AI strategy & automation: deciding where AI earns its place, then building the pipelines that streamline operations
  • AI content systems: efficient, AI-assisted workflows to produce and deploy quality content at scale
  • Front-end engineering: clean, responsive code so the final product behaves exactly as designed
If your product is good but not yet exceptional or your team is spending hours on work that AI should be handling. let's talk.
  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • German

    Basic

Can work on-site
Zurich (up to 20km)

Experience

  • Trio
    Co-Founder
    DIGITAL AND IT
    February 2023 - May 2026 (3 years and 3 months)
    - Senior Executive
    - Product Manager
    - Marketing & Social Media
    - Business Development
    - Investor Relations
    Product design Marketing Product management Business development Social media
  • Satoshibles
    Founder
    June 2021 - May 2026 (4 years and 11 months)
    Zürich, Switzerland
    - Lead Designer
    - Lead Developer
    - Marketing & Social Media
    - Business Development
    - Community Leader
  • Creative Glass MHS AG
    Web & Print Design Manager
    March 2009 - August 2014 (5 years and 5 months)
    • - Design Team Management
    • - Project Management
    • - Business Development
    • - E-Commerce System Development / Maintenance
    • - 1 to 1 Client relations
    • - Brand Consolidation
    • - Front End Web Designer
    • - Web Developer/programmer
    • - Print Design - Product catalogue, Info booklets, Marketing materials etc...
    • - Design / Deliver Marketing Campaigns
    • - Event Planning / Coordination

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Education

  • BSc
    Glasgow Caledonian University
    2006
    BSc
  • HND, Multimedia Production
    2005
    HND, Multimedia Production

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