Bookflow
Founder and Product Designer
A reading app for Android, live on Google Play. Researched, designed, built and released on my own: about 100 screen states, a paid closed beta, React Native and Supabase.
A bit about me

I came to design through building things, and I still measure a design by whether it ships. Seven years in, five products of my own live, and a design system in production that outlasted my seat.
in-house, contract and founding · 2019 to now
Bookflow
Founder and Product Designer
A reading app for Android, live on Google Play. Researched, designed, built and released on my own: about 100 screen states, a paid closed beta, React Native and Supabase.
Complete Farmer
Product Designer, then Lead Product Designer and Design System Lead
Owned the design system four products run on, 84 components on four foundation libraries, and led the AI sourcing dashboard with two designers. Started on the platform redesign, research and dashboards.
Toptal
Product Designer, contract
Contract product design for clients in Toptal's network: research to shipped interface and style guide for AtRest, and a mobile-first Shopify redesign for Rexcustom.
3reen_online
UX Designer
Led the design team for a B2B and B2C e-commerce marketplace, from wireframes to a shared UI library, and ran research and prototyping workshops for junior designers.
Earlier
UX and product design: Workik, VAAD, Prudent Digital
Landing pages, dashboards and a Figma design system for Workik; stakeholder prototypes for VAAD; mobile apps and responsive sites for UK clients at Prudent Digital.
7
years designing
5
products of my own, live
15
teams designed for
84
components in one system
three rules, all of them earned
Systems before screens
I would rather ship one component right than ten screens that disagree with each other. The system is the product.
Decisions have costs
Every case study names what a call cost. If it cost nothing, it was not a decision.
Trust is transparency plus reversibility
If the user cannot see why and cannot undo it, it is not assistance. That applies to AI and to me.
clients and teams I have designed for











the parts that are not on LinkedIn
five-a-side, most saturdays
If your team has three designers drawing the same button, or an AI feature that needs to be trusted before it can be used, that is the work I want.
Hi, I am the assistant on Austine's site. I can answer from his case studies, or take a message and get it to him. What are you working on?
10:41
I cannot deliver that yet — message delivery is not connected. Booking fifteen minutes does work, and that reaches Austine directly.