Senior product designer & design engineer

Hi, I’m Gideon.

I design and build clear, usable digital products for complex work—across product strategy, design systems and usability.

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Field note / 01Based in Poland, partnering with teams making consequential products.

I make difficult product decisions easier to understand, test and ship.

My work spans healthcare, medical devices, B2B SaaS, fintech, gaming and the products I build myself. I move from research and strategy through interaction design, systems and working software.

Senior product designer · design engineer · usability lead

01Selected work

Work where the details matter.

Four examples from the systems, teams and constraints I have worked inside. Each case study separates what I contributed from the scale of the wider company.

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01Medical devices · ICU

Senior Product Designer / Usability Engineer

Philips

Making patient-monitoring changes clear enough to review.

I translated clinical and engineering requirements into bedside-monitor behaviour, safety scenarios and risk documentation that teams could review together.

ContextCompany context: Philips patient monitors are cited as supporting 190M+ patients each year.
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Philips ICU monitor interface case study cover
190M+patients monitored / year

02B2B SaaS · Design systems

Senior Manager, UX Design

Syndigo

Turning a fragmented product system into a shared way of shipping.

I led component consolidation, connected design to Storybook, and helped teams prototype against the system they would actually build.

ContextMy contribution: 70+ components brought into a code-connected source of truth.
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Syndigo design system case study cover
70+components consolidated

03Web3 gaming · Product leadership

Lead Designer

Nifty League

Keeping a player economy understandable without making the game feel like finance.

As lead designer, I shaped the public story, player dashboard, asset decisions and credit-system logic across the game experience.

ContextCompany context: Nifty League later announced a $5M seed round.
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Nifty League clickable prototype flow showing marketplace, asset detail, dashboard, leaderboard, wallet onboarding and settings screens
$5Mseed round announced

04Crypto compliance · Forensics

Senior UX Designer / Research Lead

Merkle Science

Giving analysts a clearer path through high-stakes investigations.

I redesigned case review, sorting, filtering and reporting flows for exchanges, institutions and government-facing teams.

ContextCompany context: the platform screens 3M+ digital assets each month.
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Merkle Science predictive risk platform case study cover
3M+assets screened monthly

03How I work

Enough structure to move a team forward.

01

Find the consequential decision

Start with the moment that is risky, confusing or expensive to get wrong—not with a screen inventory.

02

Make it legible across disciplines

Turn research, constraints and system rules into interfaces that product, engineering and domain experts can review.

03

Prove the behaviour in a working artifact

Use prototypes and implementation to test the flow before a team commits fully to building it.

04Say hello

Have a product decision that needs to become clearer?

Send the product, the people using it and the decision that is currently difficult. I will reply directly.