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I'm a UX designer with real product-engineering depth, turning complex digital and physical products into experiences that feel obvious. I currently redesign HL’s web and mobile platforms and scale a cross-platform design system that serves 2.2M clients, modernising a 20-year-old investment platform. The rigour I learned shipping patented hardware with Dyson — including a patented accessibility innovation — shapes how I frame problems, run research and validate what I design. I bring cross-disciplinary collaboration, user testing, and AI-assisted research to validate ideas.…I'm a UX designer with real product-engineering depth, turning complex digital and physical products into experiences that feel obvious. I currently redesign HL’s web and mobile platforms and scale a cross-platform design system that serves 2.2M clients, modernising a 20-year-old investment platform. The rigour I learned shipping patented hardware with Dyson — including a patented accessibility innovation — shapes how I frame problems, run research and validate what I design. I bring cross-disciplinary collaboration, user testing, and AI-assisted research to validate ideas.

Daniel de Garis

UX Designer, Product Designer, Designer, +2

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I'm a UX designer with real product-engineering depth, turning complex digital and physical products into experiences that feel obvious. I currently redesign HL’s web and mobile platforms and scale a cross-platform design system that serves 2.2M clients, modernising a 20-year-old investment platform. The rigour I learned shipping patented hardware with Dyson — including a patented accessibility innovation — shapes how I frame problems, run research and validate what I design. I bring cross-disciplinary collaboration, user testing, and AI-assisted research to validate ideas.…I'm a UX designer with real product-engineering depth, turning complex digital and physical products into experiences that feel obvious. I currently redesign HL’s web and mobile platforms and scale a cross-platform design system that serves 2.2M clients, modernising a 20-year-old investment platform. The rigour I learned shipping patented hardware with Dyson — including a patented accessibility innovation — shapes how I frame problems, run research and validate what I design. I bring cross-disciplinary collaboration, user testing, and AI-assisted research to validate ideas.

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I’m a UX designer with real product-engineering depth, turning complex digital and physical products into experiences that feel obvious. I currently redesign HL’s web and mobile platforms and scale a cross-platform design system that serves 2.2M clients, modernising a 20-year-old investment platform. The rigour I learned shipping patented hardware with Dyson — including a patented accessibility innovation — shapes how I frame problems, run research and validate what I design. I bring cross-disciplinary collaboration, user testing, and AI-assisted research to validate ideas.

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Work Experience

User Experience Designer at Hargreaves Lansdown

January 1, 2026 - Present

Redesign HL’s web and mobile platforms, modernising a 20-year-old investment platform that serves 2.2M clients; building and scaling a cross-platform design system with accessibility built in; running unmoderated user testing and analysis; collaborating across product, engineering and research to ship validated UX; applying AI tooling (Claude, Maze) to accelerate research and design workstreams.

Senior Product Design Engineer, Beauty at Dyson

August 1, 2025 - January 1, 2026

Partnered with Dyson’s UX team on connected-product app design, UI, feature definition and end-to-end experience for products still under NDA; bridged design, engineering and UX to deliver hardware-software experiences; led visual storytelling, concept films and early-stage assets to communicate future product direction to senior stakeholders.

NPI Product Design Engineer, Beauty at Dyson

September 1, 2022 - August 1, 2025

Led human-centred design of a chin-operated styling mechanism for an Airwrap user with limb differences; conducted external user trials and owned a 10-week sprint to solve styling-intuitiveness without increasing BOM; led early propositions including visuals, user journeys, prototype app and packaging; praised as “gold standard” by the CIO and presented to the Dyson CEO.