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Alex Johnson

Senior Product Designer

London, UK, GMT+0

alex@alexjohnson.designlinkedin.com/in/alexjohnsonalexjohnson.designtwitter.com/alexjohnson

About

Product designer with 8+ years of experience crafting beautiful, user-centered digital products. Passionate about design systems, accessibility, and mentoring junior designers.

Experience

Mar 21 – Now

Senior Product Designer at Acme Corpacme.example.com

London, UK

Lead designer for the core product team, working on design system and user research.

  • Built and maintained a comprehensive design system used by 50+ designers and engineers
  • Led user research initiatives that increased conversion by 35%
  • Mentored 3 junior designers and established design critique practices
Design system component library in Figma
User flow wireframes and prototypes
Jun 18 – Feb 21

Product Designer at StartupXYZstartupxyz.example.com

Remote

First design hire. Built the product from 0 to 100k users.

  • Designed and shipped the MVP in 6 months
  • Conducted 50+ user interviews to validate product-market fit
  • Established the design process and hired the first design team member

Projects

Jan 20 – Now

OpenDesignSystemgithub.com/alexjohnson/opendesignsystem

Open-source design system for SaaS products. 2k+ GitHub stars.

  • Built comprehensive component library with 50+ components
  • Adopted by 100+ companies worldwide
Dashboard analytics components

Publications

2022

Design Systems: Practical Guide to Shared Design Languagesalistapart.com/article/design-systems-practical-guide

A List Apart

An in-depth guide exploring how to create, document, and maintain design systems that bridge the gap between design and development teams.

Talks

2023

Building Design Systems That Scaleconfig.figma.com

Config Europe — Berlin, Germany

Shared lessons learned from building and maintaining a design system used by 50+ designers and engineers across multiple product teams.

2022

The Art of Design Critique

Design Matters — Copenhagen, Denmark

A workshop on giving and receiving constructive feedback to improve design outcomes and team collaboration.

Education

Sep 12 – Jun 15

University of the Arts London

BA (Hons) in Graphic Design

London, UK

First Class Honours

Testimonials

Sarah Chen

Head of Product at Acme Corp

“Alex is one of the most talented designers I've worked with. Their attention to detail and user empathy is unmatched.”

Marcus Webb

CTO at StartupXYZ

“The design system Alex built transformed how our engineering and design teams collaborate. It's become the backbone of our product development.”

Skills

Design

FigmaSketchAdobe Creative SuitePrototypingDesign Systems

Research

User InterviewsUsability TestingA/B TestingAnalytics

Development

HTMLCSSReact BasicsGit