Startup strategy, product management and UX design

Launch and optimise your digital product effectively and at speed. I'm a multidisciplinary freelance ux designer and product manager that specialises in helping early stage startups define their offering and find product market fit.

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I help startups launch new products and services to the right people, the right way.

My focus is startup consulting and helping early stage businesses discover their product market fit. I work closely with you to validate your idea making sure you minimise your spend and risk of building the wrong thing. You don't want to build something no one will use or buy. I make sure this doesn't happen.

Contact me if you have an interesting idea you'd like to collaborate on.

After 20 years designing and building products. I've mastered my craft. I now focus on the startup consulting services below.

My focus is startup innovation and consulting. A ‘startup mindset’ is advantageous to all organisations. Innovate, Develop and Release like a fast moving agile startup. Benefit from my 18 years experience designing and building successful products. If you’re a founder with an idea or a product owner at a large enterprise, I’ll work with you to bring a startup product and design thinking mindset that will accelerate your project to the next level.

Startup consulting

I’ve worked with over 50 startups to define and refine their offering. If you have an idea or are already launched I can help you take your startup to the next stage.

Startup design

Clarify what stage your startup is at and determine where you need to focus next. Designing the key components to focus your team on what will provide the most impact.

Startup growth marketing

You have the idea, the product, the team. Now you need more paying customers. Startup marketing will take a systematic approach to your growth strategy.

Product management

Discover customer problems, define your vision and build a roadmap delivering the maximum value. Then build, measure and learn using best practice product management.

UX Design

UX design is a market differentiator for your organisation. Consumers now expect flawless user experience when dealing with digital services. It can make or break your business.

Agile software development

Refocus your teams around a new mindset and processes that quickly validate your concepts and get them from idea to production in days, not months.

All startup consulting services

Validate your idea, launch your product and grow your business to scale.

I use industry-proven methodologies that fit your startup and the problems you need to solve. I leave out the buzz word fillers you don't don’t need. I keep it lean. Meaning I only work on the things that get you results.

I'm collaborative, cross-functional, and will act as an extention to your team. I Focus on outcomes over outputs, people over processes and problems over solutions. Think of me as a design & product co-founder, who will help you identify you market, test your product ideas and launch not only a viable business, a successful business.

I deliver value whatever stage your startup is at.

Exploration

Customer development,
Design Discovery,
Divergent ideation,
Market Validation.

Execution

Prototype creation,
MVP Development,
Convergent ideation,
Design language formation.

Evolution

Usability Testing,
Style guide development,
Learning iteration,
Customer aquisition.

Things I Write.

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How does a remote product designer work with an agile team?

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