Product Management & UX

Product person focused on growth, engagement, and considered experiences.

I've spent 12+ years building digital products, lately focused on growth, retention, and the social mechanics that make people come back. I bring UX depth to product decisions, and product thinking to design.

Work

About

Behaviour & growth

Much of my work focuses on understanding how people adopt and return to digital products.

I look closely at where users get stuck, what creates momentum, and what makes an experience worth coming back to. This often involves analysing user journeys, looking at behavioural patterns, and forming hypotheses about how product improvements might influence engagement.

Where possible, those ideas are tested through prototypes, live experiments, and data to understand what actually improves adoption and retention.

Product direction

I often work at the intersection of design, product, and engineering; helping teams make sense of complex product problems and decide what is worth building.

This involves exploring different solution directions, weighing trade-offs, and helping teams prioritise work based on user needs, technical constraints, and business goals.

Early concepts and prototypes are used to explore ideas, test and support decision making before teams commit to building.

Systems & platforms

Many of the products I’ve worked on are platforms rather than single features.

Because of this, product decisions rarely exist in isolation. A change in onboarding can affect retention, a navigation change can affect discovery, and new capabilities often introduce new complexity elsewhere in the experience.

I enjoy working in these environments and helping teams think through how decisions propagate across the product as it evolves.

Nike, Polestar, KLM, Audemars Piguet, Philips Hue, Crisp, Greenwheels, Albert Heijn, Porsche, Volkswagen, Hema, Gemeente Amsterdam, Inner Circle, New Era, Signify, Vacheron Constantin, Vodafone, KPN, Catawiki, Karwei.

Experience

Product Manager & Experience Lead

BBBLGM
Ray Browser

2023 - Present

Experience Director

Code d'Azur

2022-2023

Head of User Experience

Dentsu Creative

2021-2022

User Experience Lead

Dentsu Creative

2018-2021

User Experience Designer

Dentsu Creative

2015-2018

User Experience Architect

AKQA

2014-2015

Associate User Experience Architect

AKQA

2013-2014

User Experience Designer

VMLY&R

2012-2013

Front End Developer

VMLY&R

2011-2012

Certifications

Executive School - Service Design

TiSDD, Amsterdam

2018

B.A. Communication & Multimedia

Vega, Cape Town

2008-2010

Awards

Red Dot Awards

Product design - Propel S1

Service design - Porsche24

Awwwards

SOTD - Propel

SOTD - Vodafone, Powerful Connections

The FWA

Website - Propel

Mobile - KLM, Layover with a local

Dutch Interactive Awards

Gold - Crisp, Disrupter

Gold - Crisp, Ecommerce

Gold - Porsche24, Ecommerce

Gold - Volkswagen Connected Car, Data

Silver - Greenwheels, Data

ADCN

Silver - Greenwheels, Data

Bronze - Crisp, Ecommerce

Bronze - KLM app, Craft, Digital

Bronze - Pack, Design, Mobile

Bronze - Pack, Design, Mobile

Bronze - Volkswagen Connected Car, Next

Spin Awards

Gold - Crisp, Digital Service Idea

Silver - Crisp, Design

Silver - Karwei Style Studio, Innovation

Silver - Porsche24, Innovation

Silver - Porsche24, Design

Silver - Greenwheels, User Experience

Esprix

Bronze - Crisp, Ecommerce

Talks

FiTC

2020, Toronto (online)

Edge Design Talks

2019, Cluj, Romania

DOERS Conference

2018, Budapest, Hungary

Emerce eDay

2017, Amsterdam, Netherlands