Lead Product Designer.

Designing products that bring clarity and scale to complex businesses.

London
Projects

A few I’m proud of.

Years designing digital products

Consultancy, agency and in-house.

10+

Enterprise organisations delivered for

Across the UK, US and India.

5+

Projects taken from discovery to live

End-to-end across design, product and engineering.

7

In good company.

Selected clients across retail, finance and healthcare.

Marks & Spencer
Lloyds Banking Group
JLR
CVS Pharmacy
Cromā
About

Designer by trade. Product thinker by nature.

Sam Young

Hello, I’m Sam.

Lead Product Designer with 10+ years’ experience shaping digital products across consultancy, agency and in-house teams, aligning business goals, user needs and product strategy across enterprise organisations, startups and some of the UK’s best-known brands.

End-to-end design leadership from early discovery through to delivery, bringing together senior stakeholders, product and engineering to create clear, usable experiences from complexity.

Strong focus on scalable design foundations, mentoring designers, building design systems and combining systems thinking with hands-on craft to keep things moving in the right direction.

  • Product strategy & discovery
  • UX & interaction design
  • UI design & visual systems
  • Design systems & scalability
  • Stakeholder management
  • Workshop facilitation
  • Accessibility (WCAG)
  • Mentoring & design leadership
Ways of working

How I tend to come in.

Embedded design lead.

Stepping in as design lead on an existing team. Running the work end-to-end, keeping product and engineering moving in step.

North-star definition.

Setting product direction for the next 1–3 years. Discovery, strategy and a vision senior stakeholders can rally behind, and teams can actually build from.

Systems that scale.

Design systems, component libraries and the language behind them. Built to hold up across teams, product surfaces and years, not just the launch.

Let’s build something that delivers.

Open to contract, freelance and full-time opportunities. If you’re working on something interesting, I’d love to hear about it.