Useful by design.

Dawn is a product designer focused on the moments where people, systems and decisions meet. Their practice moves from messy constraints to simple, durable interfaces, with a particular interest in tools that help teams do consequential work with less friction.

Small details, wider effect.

Lead product design

Atlas operations workspace

Reframed a fragmented internal tool into a task-first workspace, giving a distributed operations team one clear place to see risk, ownership and next action.

2025
Product design · Research

Northline onboarding

Reworked a high-drop-off setup flow around progressive disclosure and better language, helping new customers reach a useful first session with less guidance.

2024
Design systems

Common ground UI

Established a flexible component language across three product surfaces, pairing accessible foundations with enough expression to keep the system legible and alive.

2022
2023–Now

Senior Product Designer

Fieldwork Studio · Remote
  • Lead end-to-end product design for complex B2B workflows, from early framing through measured release.
  • Partner with product and engineering leads to turn uncertain problems into testable, buildable decisions.
2021–2023

Product Designer

Lantern Systems · Melbourne
  • Designed core experiences for a growing operations platform used by teams across multiple time zones.
  • Introduced lightweight research rituals that brought customer evidence into weekly product decisions.
2019–2021

Visual Designer

Independent practice · Various
  • Created identities, digital experiences and editorial systems for early-stage teams with ambitious ideas.

How I work

Product strategy · Interaction design · Prototyping · User research · Facilitation · Design critique

What I use

Figma · FigJam · Notion · Principle · HTML / CSS · A well-kept notebook

Grounded, still learning.

2015–2019

Bachelor of Communication Design

RMIT University

Focus in interaction, editorial systems and information design.

Have a useful problem?

Dawn is available for senior product design roles and carefully scoped collaborations with teams who value clarity over theatre.

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