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Senior Product Designer · Enterprise UX/UI · Design Systems · AI Design-to-Code

I'm Dan George.
Driving design thinking through AI.

An enterprise product and experience design leader combining human-centred design, AI-assisted workflows and scalable design systems to deliver complex digital products, from business requirements through to engineering.

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Based in London · Working globally
25+
Years designing digital products and services across finance, government, pharma and energy
12
Enterprise and government clients, from Fidelity, Nationwide and Santander to UAE Government
$35M
Valuation of energy-tech start-up Zentility, where I was Founding Product Designer
$30M
Key resource tied to Accenture winning a client contract

Modern design, AI led

Designing when stakes are the highest.

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Product and UX/UI designer with 25+ years in digital design, specialising in complex financial services and enterprise platforms. I combine hands-on research, interaction design, prototyping and design systems with stakeholder leadership and close engineering collaboration. My work includes Fidelity's global enterprise risk platform serving 5,000+ users, mortgage and banking journeys for Santander, Nationwide and ADCB, and four B2B SaaS platforms at Zentility.

AI-led design delivery — I've designed and tested AI-assisted guidance for KHDA, used AI in my own workflow from prototyping to code (including rebuilding this site with Claude Code), and developed ADA, an approach for adapting design delivery and AI adoption to each organisation — always under human governance.

Hands-on product design — Research, journeys, prototyping and high-fidelity UI in Figma (components, variants, auto layout and interactive prototypes), turning intricate rules, policy and technical constraints into journeys people can actually complete.

Design systems & engineering — Built the Zentility, OneHub and KHDA design systems from the ground up and contributed components to Santander, Nationwide and ADCB libraries. I write acceptance criteria, run design QA and work through technical constraints with engineers. Hands-on HTML and CSS; I design within React and React Native component libraries.

Finance · Government · Energy · Education · Healthcare & Pharma

ADA · Adaptive Design Approach

No two engagements are the same. My approach adapts.

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Shaped across consultancies, corporates and start-ups — and by hands-on work with AI — ADA assesses each engagement's Project, People and Environment, then adapts how design is delivered, including where AI genuinely helps.

  1. 01

    Assess

    Project, People and Environment — including how ready the technology setup is for AI-assisted design.

  2. 02

    Adapt

    Set the delivery profile: roles, checkpoints, and whether each stage is human-led, AI-assisted or AI-generated with review.

  3. 03

    Empower

    Give designers clarity and autonomy, remove blockers, reduce rework and build team capability.

Trusted by government & enterprise teams

Nationwide Santander KHDA Dubai Knowledge ADCB ICAEW Fidelity International Zentility AstraZeneca Accenture Cognizant

Career timeline

Projects, roles & outcomes.

  1. IBM iX · Nationwide Building Society

    Senior UX/UI Designer

    Designed authentication and account recovery journeys for Nationwide Business Banking across responsive web and native mobile, mapping failure states and recovery paths within security and technical constraints.

    Impact Clear, accessible authentication, recovery, notification and card-management journeys, translated from intricate security requirements into designs ready for stakeholder validation and engineering delivery.

    Key contributions
    • UX/UI Designed login, biometrics, Day 2 login and User ID recovery, including decision points, failure states and alternative recovery paths across web and mobile. Figma
    • Research / UX Benchmarked authentication and recovery journeys to reduce customer friction and avoidable support contact. Figma · FigJam
    • UX/UI Designed the notification centre, digital inbox and card management (lost, stolen and damaged cards, freezing, PIN access), including cross-channel steps that require in-app authentication. Figma
    • Design system Designed within Nationwide's established React and React Native component libraries, and contributed new components to the existing child libraries. Figma · Design systems
    • Engineering collaboration Mapped security constraints and exception paths with product, BAs and engineering, producing accessible (WCAG) prototypes and high-fidelity designs for handover. Figma · FigJam
    • Figma
    • FigJam
    • React / React Native libraries
    • WCAG
  2. Tribal Experience · Abu Dhabi DMT · KHDA Dubai

    Service & Experience Design Lead

    Led UX/UI delivery across two UAE Government programmes — the Abu Dhabi Department of Municipalities and Transport (DMT) OneHub portal, and Dubai's Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA) — translating complex services into accessible digital journeys.

    Impact Built two government design systems from the ground up (OneHub and KHDA), redesigned journeys across 150+ citizen and business services, and designed and tested an AI-assisted learner guidance experience.

    Key contributions

    Project 1: Abu Dhabi DMT — OneHub Portal

    • Service design Redesigned OneHub journeys spanning 150+ citizen and business services, including end-to-end application journeys for 10 services that turned complex forms and policy rules into clear interactions. Figma
    • Design system Built the OneHub Design System from the ground up — tokens, components, templates and accessible patterns for web and mobile, informed by Abu Dhabi TAMM guidelines. Figma
    • Leadership Led a small design team through Figma delivery, design governance, stakeholder reviews and handoff to third-party development teams. Figma · FigJam

    Project 2: KHDA Dubai — Learner Portal

    • AI guidance Designed an AI-assisted, natural-language guidance experience for the KHDA Learner Portal, helping learners explore courses and career pathways. I built the prototypes to support four rounds of testing with educators and school administrators (6–8 participants per round). Development was paused due to budget constraints. Figma · Claude AI
    • Learning experience Designed Learner Portal journeys, information architecture and personalised learning pathways, and the experience strategy for the Learners Passport — an E33 initiative sponsored by the Director General. Figma
    • Design system Built the KHDA Design System from the ground up, extending Dubai Design System guidance with reusable components, templates and accessible patterns for portals and mobile. Figma
    • Leadership Established discovery and UX validation practices, worked with researchers on current and future service maps, and coordinated a team of five designers. FigJam
    • Figma
    • FigJam
    • Design systems
    • Claude AI
    • Service maps
  3. Santander UK · Project MAX

    Senior UX/UI Designer

    Designed broker-facing mortgage application journeys for Project MAX, working with product, engineering and business stakeholders to simplify regulated workflows.

    Impact Delivered end-to-end Decision in Principle (DIP) and Full Mortgage Application (FMA) form experiences — including Income, Property and post-submission — tested with brokers and built within the MAX design system.

    Key contributions
    • Research Worked with the User Research Lead to run broker-specific testing of complex application forms. UserZoom
    • UX Prototyped forms with complex conditional logic in Axure RP to prepare design iterations for research sessions. Axure RP
    • UI Re-evaluated existing form patterns and recommended clearer ways to present the same information, based on research and accessibility guidance. Figma
    • Design system Extended the Project MAX Figma design system with reusable, responsive components and templates aligned to Santander standards, presented to the Chief Product Owner. Figma
    • Mentoring Mentored a fellow designer on component structuring.
    • Figma
    • FigJam
    • Axure RP
    • Salesforce
    • Design systems
  4. Lab49 · Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank (ADCB)

    Senior Product Designer

    Designed mobile and desktop banking experiences for ADCB, leading the fixed-term deposit journey from discovery through account creation and management, alongside customer onboarding and English-to-Arabic (RTL) design.

    Impact With deliverables behind schedule, accelerated design sign-off across multiple complex projects through visual journey sessions with senior stakeholders and the client Centre of Excellence.

    Key contributions
    • Product design Led the fixed-term deposit journey end to end, using iterative Figma prototypes and stakeholder feedback to clarify product information and interactions. Figma
    • Research / leadership Built Miro boards for benchmarking, research and golden journeys, and ran visual journey sessions with senior stakeholders to speed up decisions. Miro
    • UI Delivered right-to-left (RTL) Arabic designs for mobile and desktop, integrating Lokalise into Figma. Figma · Lokalise
    • Design system Contributed new components to the existing React-based mobile design system, presenting them with research and rationale to the Centre of Excellence, and collaborated with engineers on implementation. Figma
    • Figma
    • Miro
    • RTL / Arabic
    • Lokalise
    • Design systems
  5. Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales

    Senior UX/UI Designer & Service Design Consultant

    Designed a UX evaluation framework and redesigned the Special Admission Route to Membership, mapping how audiences, digital assets and human touchpoints shape the member journey.

    Impact Presented findings to the C-suite, triggering a £1m digital and resource project.

    Key contributions
    • Research Built a UX evaluation framework, interviewed internal stakeholders and surveyed teams on onboarding and nurturing. Excel · Typeform
    • UX Mapped the end-to-end Pathways to Membership journey for people joining from other accounting bodies, exposing inconsistent assets and disjointed processes, with prioritised fixes. Mural · FigJam

    Earlier ICAEW contracts

    • Universal header & navigation Audited 100+ assets, ran card-sorting workshops and led design QA through build. Menu activity on ICAEW.com quadrupled within 12 months. Sketch · JIRA
    • Unified account Research-led, mobile-first concepts for five member types, approved by the C-suite. Sketch
    • Student to member Brand-affinity strategy and mobile app concept for ACA students. Sketch
    • Research
    • Service design
    • IA
    • Figma / FigJam
  6. Fidelity International

    Global Digital Experience Lead

    Led UX strategy, research and product design for Fidelity's global Enterprise Risk Management platform, serving 5,000+ users — translating complex regulatory and risk processes into clearer journeys. Engaged stakeholders up to CRO and COO level, led a team of five, and took on the BA role when the programme was short of resources.

    Impact A risk-submission experience validated through 10 rounds of testing with 50 users, and a reusable UX blueprint for future enterprise initiatives. The design role grew into a horizontal capability across all programme pillars.

    Key contributions

    Users and problem

    • Business users across global and local teams were logging risks through inconsistent, hard-to-understand processes. Workshops at the Cannon Street office and an ecosystem audit mapped where the process broke down. Mural

    How research changed the design

    • Finding In a regulatory-breach scenario, one participant misclassified the event because "we haven't caused them any problems" — they didn't recognise a breach without visible customer impact, and asked for the terminology to be simplified and linked to the events. UserZoom
    • Iteration I revised the prototype three times — responding to testing feedback, and realigning to the technology direction once ServiceNow was selected as the vendor. Participants described the revised flow as "not overwhelming and daunting… we will get more engagement." Axure

    Key design decisions

    • A dynamic risk-submission form with 60 outcomes that adapts to the type of risk, built to ServiceNow Employee Centre standards, and a service blueprint across human, data and system touchpoints. Axure · Sketch
    • UX/UI and accessibility principles for all internal platforms, used to support vendor selection. Excel

    Delivery and leadership

    • Wrote business and functional requirements for the ServiceNow and development teams, working closely with the Product Owner and Process Optimisation team. InDesign
    • Presented the UX strategy and "UX for Internal Applications" to the COO, CFO and CRO. Keynote
    • Mural
    • Axure
    • UserZoom
    • ServiceNow
    • Sketch
  7. Zentility Inc. · US energy-tech start-up

    Founding Product Designer

    Founding product designer for a US energy-tech start-up, leading end-to-end UX/UI across four B2B SaaS platforms — energy procurement, pricing, contract management and reporting — from concept through implementation, working directly with the co-founders.

    Impact Four platforms delivered from beta MVP to full product, contributing to the company's growth to a $35M valuation.

    Key contributions

    Organising complex information for decisions

    • Dashboards Designed portfolio- and customer-level dashboards that let enterprise users understand energy spend, usage and contract status at a glance, with AI-driven projections of future spend and usage. Sketch → Figma
    • Pricing reports Created industry-first pricing reports combining market data with AI market analysis.

    Research and design system

    • Research Ran IA workshops with former traders and commercial business owners, and four rounds of usability testing for each platform. InVision
    • Design system Built the Zentility design system from the ground up — an atomic component library moved from Sketch to Figma. Sketch → Figma

    Through to delivery

    • Delivery Wrote acceptance criteria as JIRA user stories, ran design QA every sprint with offshore engineering teams, and redesigned around technical constraints as they arose — taking designs through to release, not just handoff. JIRA · Confluence
    • Product strategy
    • Dashboards
    • Design systems
    • Agile
  8. AstraZeneca

    Global Digital Experience & Content Lead

    Led the global healthcare professional (HCP) web-portal programme, establishing scalable content architecture and digital standards across international markets.

    Impact Led end-to-end UX on 30+ digital projects in 2016, and the UX for a patient-retention solution on a $300m clinical trial.

    Key contributions
    • Developed a governed content library with reusable components, templates and multilingual content standards.
    • Simplified complex medical and regulatory information into accessible, user-centred experiences, supporting global launches and localisation. Adobe AEM
    • Content strategy
    • Adobe AEM
    • Localisation
  9. Accenture · for AstraZeneca

    UI/UX Design Lead

    Led UX/UI design for AstraZeneca programmes across Europe and Asia, acting as UX quality gatekeeper across creative and technical workstreams.

    Impact My involvement contributed to securing a $30M strategic engagement between Accenture and AstraZeneca.

    Key contributions
    • Built creative, IA, UX and email standards, and mentored 100+ team members and client stakeholders through regular UX forums. Balsamiq · AEM
    • UX standards
    • Adobe AEM
    • Mentoring
  10. Cognizant · for AstraZeneca

    Senior UX/UI Designer

    Delivered more than 100 digital campaigns and product-launch initiatives across global pharmaceutical markets.

    Key contributions
    • Led design delivery end to end — user flows, wireframes, prototypes and UI specifications — and mentored offshore designers. SDL · SharePoint
    • Multi-channel campaigns
  11. Earlier career

    Lead Web Designer & Web Designer

    Lead Web Designer, AstraZeneca (2003–2009) — led digital design delivery across corporate and product marketing initiatives.
    Web Designer, Schlumberger (1999–2002) — designed sites for the BP Global Intranet platform.

Capabilities

One designer, the full stack.

01

Service, product & content design

  • Service design & journey mapping
  • Product design & prototyping
  • Content strategy & IA
  • Design systems & governance
  • AI-assisted experience design
  • AI design-to-code (Claude, Claude Code)
  • Figma, FigJam, Axure, Miro, Mural
02

Research

  • Workshops
  • Ethnographic studies
  • Persona development
  • Usability testing
  • User interviews & surveys
03

Leadership & governance

  • Stakeholder management
  • Team mentoring
  • Design governance
  • Accessibility & standards
  • C-suite presentations
04

Delivery & technology

  • Agile delivery & design QA
  • HTML & CSS (hands-on)
  • JIRA, Confluence & acceptance criteria
  • Designing with React & React Native libraries

Education BSc Computer Science — Kingston University London

What people say

From the people I've worked with.

Dan excelled as an end-to-end product designer, demonstrating outstanding capabilities in research, wireframing, final UI design and prototyping. He seamlessly collaborated with clients, fellow designers and engineers, delivering high-quality work on time and consistently exceeding expectations.

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Mike AllportProduct Design Director, Lab49

Dan thrives on complex challenges and goes out of his way to make the complicated simple and intuitive. He takes stakeholders on a journey and wins buy-in.

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Sophie TrewGlobal Digital Experience Associate Director, Fidelity International

Sound UX principles and a thorough, user-centred approach top to bottom. Confident, reliable and proactive.

Rob HumphriesUX Designer, ICAEW

Having worked alongside Dan for over six years, I can confidently say he is an exceptional designer and an asset to any team. He possesses a rare combination of exceptional design talent, technical prowess and strategic thinking, making him a truly invaluable team player.

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Ryan PeuschCEO, Zentility

Dan elevated the UX and design standards of our brand agencies. His approach to UX is textbook perfect.

Boris JacquinOmnichannel Delivery Director, AstraZeneca

There are some folks you work with that you just have to work with. Dan isn't one of those guys! He emits enthusiasm all the time and is a joy to be around. His passion for client outcomes never reduces, and his commitment to quality is endearing and infectious.

Andrew FinlaysonClient Account Leader, Accenture

A talented, creative designer whose technical skills let him anticipate and mitigate implementation challenges.

Andrew LiptrotHead of Conferencing Services, AstraZeneca

High-quality design work, delivered quickly and to spec, with full account of accessibility and usability.

Mark ReesSoftware Developer, Ministry of Justice

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