London, UK

David Faz.

I design products and ship them.

Product Designer, Design Systems

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01 / What I do

I design products, then I build them.

Twenty years across product, web and brand. One person who owns both the design and the code.

01

Product design

From a rough idea to tested screens people understand first time.

UX · UI · Prototyping · Testing

02

Design systems

One source of truth, so design and code stop drifting apart.

Tokens · Components · Accessibility

03

Design engineering

I build what I design, so nothing gets lost in handover.

React · React Native · Astro

04

Websites

Fast, clear sites that turn visitors into enquiries.

Brand refresh · WordPress · Static sites

02 / Selected work

Recent work

A few recent projects. The full stories are private; ask and I'll send the password.

Other work

  • Online donations portalKensington Temple · processed £1–3M a year
  • KTTV live-streaming playerKensington Temple · live and on-demand video
  • EarlierBBC illustration · Sigrid Rausing Trust · Coronet Cinema

03 / How I work

Paper first. AI where it helps.

AI speeds up the build. The thinking, and the call on whether it's right, stays with me.

  1. 01

    Understand

    Listen, sketch on paper, agree what success looks like.

  2. 02

    Design

    Flows and frames in Figma, built on a system from day one.

  3. 03

    Build

    I ship the front end, with AI doing the heavy lifting under rules I set.

  4. 04

    Check and ship

    Test on real devices, refine, release.

What I believe

  • One thing at a time

    Every screen should ask for one decision. Clarity beats choice.

  • Smallest screen first

    If it works on the smallest phone, it works everywhere.

  • Design in the material

    I check ideas in real code and on real devices, not just in Figma.

  • Honest by default

    No dark patterns, no streak guilt, no claims the data can’t support.

04 / Working together

Three ways to work with me

01 / PROJECTS

A defined piece of work

A website, an app flow or a design-system tidy-up. Fixed scope, agreed after a free 30-minute call.

02 / EMBEDDED

Part of your team

Set days each week alongside your product and engineering people. Remote, UK or US hours.

03 / ROLES

Full-time product design

Open to remote product designer and design engineer roles.

05 / Background

Art school first, then sixteen years leading web at a London charity, then startups. I've always been the designer who also builds.

Today I'm the founding product designer at Alively, and I take on a small number of design projects alongside it.

DESIGN
Product and UX design, design systems, prototyping, user research, accessibility, illustration, art direction
BUILD
React Native, TypeScript, React, Astro, Tailwind, WordPress, HTML / CSS
AI WORKFLOW
Claude Code, Figma MCP, design rules for AI agents, on-device QA

06 / Contact

Have a product that needs designing, and shipping?

Tell me about it. I reply within a working day.