Boyd Russell
@boydrussell
Senior product designer focused on simplifying complex SaaS experiences.
What I'm looking for
I am a Senior Product Designer with over a decade designing web-based SaaS products and 20+ years in digital and bio-digital domains, focused on collaborative solutions that simplify complexity.
I deliver service and product design across discovery, high-fidelity prototyping, design systems and developer handover, having driven adoption and improved user feedback quality by 50–60% through workshops, research and tokenized design systems.
I have supported multiple distributed squads, worked with React, Java, Spring and ML teams, and led end-to-end design for SaaS products that contributed to product overhauls and company acquisition outcomes.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Senior Product Designer
LPS/Payback/Amex
Apr 2025 - Present (5 months)
Delivered service design for a travel agents' loyalty program, produced high-fidelity components and improved IA to modernize customer management systems, contributing to increased regional adoption.
Senior Product Designer
Origami Energy
Jan 2022 - Apr 2025 (3 years 3 months)
Designed user flows and front-end solutions for an ML engine, created dark/light Figma prototypes and a design token system that reduced component update time and cost, and improved user feedback quality by 50–60%.
Optimized SDK registration reducing onboarding time by 2–6 hours and redesigned crash event logs to increase re-engagement ~40%, running discovery workshops and producing high-fidelity prototypes for testing and handover.
Lead Product Designer
Emnos
Feb 2017 - Jun 2019 (2 years 4 months)
Partnered with product owners and ML specialists to redesign user flows and deliver four end-to-end SaaS products, contributing to the company's acquisition through product overhauls.
Senior UX Designer
Money Advice Service
Feb 2016 - Nov 2016 (9 months)
Supported lead UX on roadmap and sprint planning, simplified a budgeting calculator increasing adoption by 17%, and produced Axure prototypes for remote and lab testing to validate hypotheses.
Senior UX Designer
MarketGravity
Sep 2015 - Jan 2016 (4 months)
Led UX sketchboarding and client workshops for a challenger bank app, created Axure prototypes and presented research-backed design recommendations to stakeholders in New York and the UK.
UX Designer
AllSaints
Feb 2015 - Aug 2015 (6 months)
Conducted checkout friction analysis and guerrilla user testing, introduced a pattern library and tracked Google Analytics events to enable data-driven UX improvements across the e-commerce platform.
UX IA EA
Tesco Direct
Apr 2014 - Dec 2014 (8 months)
Supported the launch of an e-commerce site achieving £800k in pre-sales, ran discovery sessions and introduced a pattern library to align product and content strategy.
Digital Designer
London Digital Agencies
Mar 2005 - Aug 2013 (8 years 5 months)
Worked across multiple agencies delivering digital design for clients including Burberry and Marks & Spencer, distilling complex data into clear, user-centered interfaces and prototypes.
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