About Russell
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- YASS!Product Designer & Design EngineerSOCIAL NETWORKSJune 2025 - Today (1 year)London, United KingdomYASS! is an app helping you meet new people easily over shared activities.How might we reduce the barriers to meeting new people? Testing whether shared activities and easy scheduling unlocks new connections.
- Designed and built using Cursor AI with Node, React, Next.js, Supabase, and Tailwind.
- Built real-time direct and group messaging to enable members to coordinate meets, solving complex state management across multiple concurrent conversations.
- Optimised page load performance by redesigning how member counts are calculated per location, cutting wait time from 10+ seconds to under 200ms so members see useful data instantly.
- Currently in alpha release, testing with 5 early adopters to establish product-market fit.
- Agency (NDA)Senior UX & Service DesignerLOGISTICS AND SUPPLY CHAINMarch 2025 - May 2025 (2 months)Toronto, CanadaWorked remotely for an agency for a commercial furniture manufacturing client.
- Reframed a website redesign client request into a $400k platform transformation by identifying Customer Services workflows as the bottleneck.
- Prepared and led strategic digital product discovery and shaping sessions.
- Defined a delivery programme with the Head of Product and engineering to improve sales close rates and modernise the stack.
- AREFounderDIGITAL AND ITJanuary 2024 - December 2024 (11 months)London, United KingdomARE is B2B SaaS tool helping product managers to easily turn user research data into insights, enabling them to shape their customer value propositions based on that data, and inform the prioritisation of their product backlog.
- Created and developed concept designs into an MVP, by teaching myself to code in Node.js, PostgreSQL, HTML and CSS using GPTs like GitHub Copilot.
- Incorporating JTBD, Thinking Styles, and Customer Value Proposition frameworks into the tool to help users achieve their outcomes more efficiently.
- Sought trade-offs between the design, front-end and back-end to allow for flexibility as the product evolves.
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Education
- MSc Human-Centred Systems DesignCity University London2008
- BSc Computer ScienceUniversity College London (UCL)2002