About
I design for moments where getting it wrong costs people money or opportunity.
Since 2019 I've worked on cross-border payments in 10 countries at Swiftpoint, a multi-tenant enterprise platform at Alsoit, and Talstrike, a sports talent platform I took from prototype to 10K+ subscribers.
I hold an MSc in Financial Technology from the University of Bradford, so I'm comfortable with regulation, payment infrastructure and data. I pair that with motion and 3D design, and enough front-end skill to build my own prototypes.
I work closely with engineers and founders, mentor designers and build design systems that make teams faster. AI is now part of how I research and prototype — here's how.
- Works
- Remotely, across time zones
- Looking for
- Currently open to new product design roles
- Focus
- Fintech, enterprise SaaS, AI-powered products, design systems
Experience
Where I've worked
Feb 2024 – Present
Remote
Lead Product Designer, Talstrike
Sports talent platform connecting athletes, scouts and fans.
- Led design from prototype to launch; reached 10K+ subscribers in year one.
- Turned research and stakeholder input into the V2 roadmap; V2 lifted sign-ups 85%.
- Designed AI-assisted athlete search and role-based accounts for four user types.
- Rebuilt the design system on Figma tokens and variables, automating dark mode.
- Mentored 4 designers through structured critique, speeding up engineering handoff.
Dec 2023 – Feb 2024
UK
Product Designer (Contract), Wollette
Payments platform: responsive web redesign and rebrand.
- Redesigned the responsive website and brand; merchant partnerships doubled in 3 months.
- Lifted quarterly sign-ups 10% and organic search visibility 20%.
- Used 3D and motion to explain complex workflows; usability scores rose 25%.
Jan 2022 – Dec 2023
UK
Senior Product Designer, Alsoit
Multi-tenant enterprise workspace, acquired by Appsalite.
- Designed core dashboards, org hierarchy and activity tracking during 3× valuation growth.
- Built and governed a tokenised Figma design system used across product squads.
- Set design principles and a WCAG-based accessibility standard for every product line.
- Mentored junior designers and created a video library of UX patterns.
May 2019 – Jan 2022
UI/UX Designer, Swiftpoint
Cross-border payments and bills platform.
- Led product design as the platform expanded into 10 countries.
- Simplified multi-currency transfers into step-by-step flows using progressive disclosure.
- Ran research across markets and localised the interface for each.
Skills
What I bring
- Product design
- Discovery · Interaction design · Prototyping · User research · Usability testing · Information architecture · A/B testing
- Design systems
- Tokenised systems · Figma variables · Light/dark theming · WCAG 2.2 AA · Inclusive design
- AI workflow
- Claude · Claude Code · Cursor · Figma AI · v0 · AI research synthesis
- Motion & 3D
- After Effects · Blender · Cinema 4D · Micro-interactions
- Front-end
- HTML · CSS · JavaScript · React · Next.js · Git
Education & awards
Learning and recognition
- MSc Financial Technology — University of Bradford, UK
- BSc Accounting and Financial Technology — Delta State University, NG
- UX Master Certified (UXC #1063162) — Nielsen Norman Group
- UX Design Professional Certificate — Google
- Full-Stack Web Development — Microverse
- Featured design innovation — The Telegraph, for the Bradcoin app
- Global Trading Laureate — Bloomberg international trading competition
Testimonials
From people I've worked with
“Nathaniel was instrumental in scaling Talstrike past our early V1 prototype into a high-performing product. He established a solid UI foundation by introducing a structured design system that accelerated frontend handoff by 2x, significantly boosting our development velocity, coupled with great collaboration across cross-functional teams.”
“Nathaniel brought a complex fintech concept to life in just one week, delivering a rapid visual prototype for a cross-border bill payment and currency exchange system. His technical input on both the web and mobile app architecture was critical, enabling us to scale from that initial concept to a live MVP within just a few months.”
“His work on the Bradcoin project provided foundational proof of concept for the university's hands-on learning initiatives. The architecture of his project is exceptionally strong, and we are utilizing it as an active development resource and benchmark for future fintech students.”
“Nathaniel handled the fast iterations of our complex, multi-tenant software with exceptional discipline. He led the team straight to a successful Alpha version, delivering a usable product that optimized cross-functional task management.”
“Nathaniel works at a very high pace, delivering quality design variations with great time efficiency. During our A/B testing phase, he produced competing concepts that were both so strong it made choosing a single direction genuinely difficult for the business.”