I design complex, technical products.

Currently at North, taking them from research to a dev-ready handoff.

Experience

From engineering into product.

A product-design-engineering degree, then a design career, industrial to digital. Expand each role for the detail.

2025 — Present NorthProduct Designer · Barcelona
  • Redesigned Spec27, Safe Intelligence's AI-evaluation platform: corrected its structural model and cut the 0→1 set-up flow from ~30–40 steps to 7.
  • Skipped the Figma hand-off: with fast AI prototyping I gave engineering a dev-ready kit (HTML, CSS and JS) so they could implement the rebuild inside a strict deadline. The new design shipped on time and drew 500+ sign-ups.
  • Client lead on a two-market competitive benchmark for a French bank: ran delivery with a two-person research team, 14 platform analyses across Spain and Portugal.
  • Unified a regulated bank's trading, payments and everyday flows onto the bank's own design language.
2023 — 2025 Human Call to ActionUX/UI Designer · Barcelona
  • Designed accessible, responsive interfaces to WCAG 2.2 across client projects.
  • Brought over-budget projects back within scope through hands-on delivery and close client communication.
2020 — 2021 Harbro LtdDesign Engineering Intern · Glasgow
  • Cut material use 15% by redesigning an industrial product to meet 2030 EU plastic regulations, preserving function and durability.
  • Managed the project's budget and timeline; delivered on both despite COVID constraints.
Education
2022 — 2023Master's · UX/UI DesignEscola Superior de Disseny (ESDI) · Barcelona
2017 — 2021BEng Product Design EngineeringUniversity of Strathclyde · Glasgow
About

One designer for the whole project.

I'm Julian. I understand the system before I design it, and I stay until it ships: research, prototypes, delivery. Off the clock, I'm usually climbing, out on the water, or playing in a band.

How I work

Six things I bring to the table.

Beyond the craft, this is how I work with the people around a project.

01
Empathy on both sides

For the user, of course, but also for whoever handed me the work. I put myself in a manager's or client's shoes to work out what they need from me, what problem I'm really solving, and why I'm paid to solve it.

02
Ownership by default

I own the outcome, not just my slice of it. I make the decisions within my remit and stand behind how they land. I flag early only what genuinely sits outside it, like budget, so nothing stalls on me.

03
Team before ego

I'd never step over a colleague to get ahead. It comes down to getting on, splitting the work fairly, and collaborating as openly and honestly as I can, always ready to hear out the team and the client.

04
Restless by nature

Always after something new, and always trying to get sharper at whatever's in front of me.

05
Allergic to friction

Efficiency over most things. If a step exists for no good reason, it goes.

06
Unbothered by change

New projects, new tools, new direction: none of it rattles me. Learn on the go.

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