As a Product Designer, I have led UX and Service strategy and execution for connected products and enterprise SaaS platforms, driving product-market fit, and designed B2C user experiences for Fortune 1000 companies worldwide.
I’ve built and scaled global Product & Design teams, leading within both startups and complex, cross-functional organizations.
My approach to design leadership blends culture and collaboration with operational excellence and strategic impact, ensuring design is not just a function but a driver of business success.
As a Product Designer, I have led UX and Service strategy and execution for connected products and enterprise SaaS platforms, driving product-market fit, and designed B2C user experiences for Fortune 1000 companies worldwide.
I’ve built and scaled global Product & Design teams, leading within both startups and complex, cross-functional organizations.
My approach to design leadership blends culture and collaboration with operational excellence and strategic impact, ensuring design is not just a function but a driver of business success.
Design & Product Leadership
Lead teams to deliver world-class products and transformative user experiences. With over a decade of experience in startups and Fortune 500 companies, I excel at driving design and product strategy from vision to execution. I specialize in building scalable design systems, mentoring high-performing teams, and fostering collaboration across disciplines. Grounded in a user-first approach, my leadership ensures alignment with business goals while solving complex challenges and delivering impactful results.
Design & Product Leadership
Lead teams to deliver world-class products and transformative user experiences. With over a decade of experience in startups and Fortune 500 companies, I excel at driving design and product strategy from vision to execution. I specialize in building scalable design systems, mentoring high-performing teams, and fostering collaboration across disciplines. Grounded in a user-first approach, my leadership ensures alignment with business goals while solving complex challenges and delivering impactful results.
Generative UX Workflows
Design is evolving from static artifacts to dynamic, AI-assisted processes. I help designers and product teams adopt new AI tools and workflows that enable faster iteration, better collaboration, and greater impact. With a focus on change management, I guide teams through the shift in mindset and practice required to integrate generative UX into daily work. From prototyping with AI to redefining how design and development collaborate, I ensure that AI becomes a force multiplier, not a disruption.
Generative UX Workflows
Design is evolving from static artifacts to dynamic, AI-assisted processes. I help designers and product teams adopt new AI tools and workflows that enable faster iteration, better collaboration, and greater impact. With a focus on change management, I guide teams through the shift in mindset and practice required to integrate generative UX into daily work. From prototyping with AI to redefining how design and development collaborate, I ensure that AI becomes a force multiplier, not a disruption.
Organizational Design for the AI Era
Having worked specifically with enterprise AI tooling and processes since 2023, I can work with you to onboard your organisation into the AI era. AI is a powerful new capability that, when unlocked, changes the way your teams build and interact. I have a world-class team of engineers and developers to help you implement and iterate custom tooling and automations as well.
Organizational Design for the AI Era
Having worked specifically with enterprise AI tooling and processes since 2023, I can work with you to onboard your organisation into the AI era. AI is a powerful new capability that, when unlocked, changes the way your teams build and interact. I have a world-class team of engineers and developers to help you implement and iterate custom tooling and automations as well.
AI Product Innovation
Transform your products and business with AI. As the founder of Semanttic, an AI platform integrating UX design with prototyping and code generation, I bring expertise in building scalable, AI-powered solutions. From defining your AI product roadmap to creating tools that enable teams, I’ll help turn concepts into impactful, cutting-edge products that keep you ahead of the curve.
AI Product Innovation
Transform your products and business with AI. As the founder of Semanttic, an AI platform integrating UX design with prototyping and code generation, I bring expertise in building scalable, AI-powered solutions. From defining your AI product roadmap to creating tools that enable teams, I’ll help turn concepts into impactful, cutting-edge products that keep you ahead of the curve.
Strategic Business Design
Drive impactful outcomes by aligning design with your business vision. I bring expertise in not only solving complex problems through design thinking but also integrating business model innovation, go-to-market strategy, and growth planning into the process. By leveraging user insights and market opportunities, I help craft strategies that not only guide design efforts but also deliver measurable business success. From defining product-market fit to scaling for growth, my approach ensures design is a key driver of innovation and organizational impact.
Strategic Business Design
Drive impactful outcomes by aligning design with your business vision. I bring expertise in not only solving complex problems through design thinking but also integrating business model innovation, go-to-market strategy, and growth planning into the process. By leveraging user insights and market opportunities, I help craft strategies that not only guide design efforts but also deliver measurable business success. From defining product-market fit to scaling for growth, my approach ensures design is a key driver of innovation and organizational impact.
Product Discovery
Uncover opportunities to create innovative, AI-powered products and experiences. With extensive experience across physical and digital products, I help you identify customer needs, validate ideas, and shape features that delight users. Leveraging the power of AI, I guide the discovery process to explore cutting-edge possibilities and ensure your product not only stands out but also drives meaningful results for your business.
Product Discovery
Uncover opportunities to create innovative, AI-powered products and experiences. With extensive experience across physical and digital products, I help you identify customer needs, validate ideas, and shape features that delight users. Leveraging the power of AI, I guide the discovery process to explore cutting-edge possibilities and ensure your product not only stands out but also drives meaningful results for your business.
Service Design
Design seamless, end-to-end experiences that connect every touchpoint in your customer journey. I specialize in mapping and optimizing services to align with user needs and business objectives, ensuring cohesive interactions across physical, digital, and operational systems. From blueprinting service ecosystems to prototyping key moments, I help organizations deliver value that goes beyond the product, creating experiences that build loyalty and drive growth.
Service Design
Design seamless, end-to-end experiences that connect every touchpoint in your customer journey. I specialize in mapping and optimizing services to align with user needs and business objectives, ensuring cohesive interactions across physical, digital, and operational systems. From blueprinting service ecosystems to prototyping key moments, I help organizations deliver value that goes beyond the product, creating experiences that build loyalty and drive growth.
Connected Product Design
Designing the future of connected experiences, I specialize in prototyping and crafting user-centered designs for IoT-enabled devices and smart systems. From robotic vacuum cleaners and networked home appliances to advanced connected platforms developed at Qualcomm, I bring expertise in blending hardware and software into cohesive, intuitive solutions. My work focuses on creating seamless interactions that enhance functionality, usability, and customer satisfaction, delivering innovative products that feel both cutting-edge and effortless to use.
Connected Product Design
Designing the future of connected experiences, I specialize in prototyping and crafting user-centered designs for IoT-enabled devices and smart systems. From robotic vacuum cleaners and networked home appliances to advanced connected platforms developed at Qualcomm, I bring expertise in blending hardware and software into cohesive, intuitive solutions. My work focuses on creating seamless interactions that enhance functionality, usability, and customer satisfaction, delivering innovative products that feel both cutting-edge and effortless to use.
Product & UX Design
Create exceptional products and user experiences that stand out. I specialize in designing intuitive, user-centric interfaces and workflows that drive engagement and align with your business goals. From wireframes and prototypes to fully realized design systems, I ensure every detail enhances usability and delivers value. Whether you’re launching a new product or refining an existing one, I bring a proven approach to crafting designs that resonate with users and elevate your brand.
Product & UX Design
Create exceptional products and user experiences that stand out. I specialize in designing intuitive, user-centric interfaces and workflows that drive engagement and align with your business goals. From wireframes and prototypes to fully realized design systems, I ensure every detail enhances usability and delivers value. Whether you’re launching a new product or refining an existing one, I bring a proven approach to crafting designs that resonate with users and elevate your brand.
Andrea Corda
"I had the privilege of working with Allen during his time at Electrolux, where his leadership and design expertise were instrumental in shaping some of our most innovative products. Allen was an exceptional partner to the Engineering teams, both in Software and Hardware.
He had a strong ability to steer product vision and design while working within real-world constraints and speaking the lingo of the Engineering Community building trust and respect across Teams.
His proactive approach to problem-solving fostered deep collaboration and his introduction of electronics prototyping into design unlocked new ways to explore connected product scenarios, creating stronger synergy between engineering and design"
CTO, ANYbotics
Lyndon Craig
"Having worked closely with Allen, I witnessed firsthand his ability to transform culture, lead teams through complex challenges, and build digital experiences.
What stands out most is Allen's talent for building and uniting teams across geographical boundaries, fostering collaboration and alignment among regional teams globally. His open-minded approach to change management and ability to guide teams through transitions made him a trusted leader.
Allen's vision for systematic execution set the organization up for the maturity it has developed today, through initiating the development of a comprehensive design system that unified mobile, web, and product UI components. His constructive approach to challenging the status quo consistently led to meaningful organizational improvements."
Head of Design, Electrolux
Andrea Corda
"I had the privilege of working with Allen during his time at Electrolux, where his leadership and design expertise were instrumental in shaping some of our most innovative products. Allen was an exceptional partner to the Engineering teams, both in Software and Hardware.
He had a strong ability to steer product vision and design while working within real-world constraints and speaking the lingo of the Engineering Community building trust and respect across Teams.
His proactive approach to problem-solving fostered deep collaboration and his introduction of electronics prototyping into design unlocked new ways to explore connected product scenarios, creating stronger synergy between engineering and design"
CTO, ANYbotics
Lyndon Craig
"Having worked closely with Allen, I witnessed firsthand his ability to transform culture, lead teams through complex challenges, and build digital experiences.
What stands out most is Allen's talent for building and uniting teams across geographical boundaries, fostering collaboration and alignment among regional teams globally. His open-minded approach to change management and ability to guide teams through transitions made him a trusted leader.
Allen's vision for systematic execution set the organization up for the maturity it has developed today, through initiating the development of a comprehensive design system that unified mobile, web, and product UI components. His constructive approach to challenging the status quo consistently led to meaningful organizational improvements."
Head of Design, Electrolux
Rafael Alonso
"I had the privilege of working alongside Allen, and I can say he is a transformative force in digital experiences. He possesses an extraordinary vision, always looking ahead to identify opportunities for innovation and growth."
VP Design, Electrolux
Giuseppe Perri
"Once in a while in your professional life you will come across someone who will challenge your way of seeing the business you are in and inspire change in how you operate. For me Allen is such a person. In a short period of time Allen inspired his team and the whole organisation to adopt to an innovation culture."
Head of Guide UX & User Interfaces, Volvo Cars
Rafael Alonso
"I had the privilege of working alongside Allen, and I can say he is a transformative force in digital experiences. He possesses an extraordinary vision, always looking ahead to identify opportunities for innovation and growth."
VP Design, Electrolux
Giuseppe Perri
"Once in a while in your professional life you will come across someone who will challenge your way of seeing the business you are in and inspire change in how you operate. For me Allen is such a person. In a short period of time Allen inspired his team and the whole organisation to adopt to an innovation culture."
Head of Guide UX & User Interfaces, Volvo Cars
Jeff Klimek
"Allen’s ability to define and refine processes has been transformative to our UX team. Under his guidance, we established clear workflows that brought efficiency and consistency to our design efforts. He introduced a "learn one, know all" mindset for interaction patterns, which successfully united regional teams across the globe. This approach fostered a shared understanding and alignment, ensuring that teams could work collaboratively and productively regardless of our location."
Director Design, Electrolux
Andriy Yasynetskyy
"I had the privilege of working under Allen's exceptional design leadership for three years as a Senior Interaction Designer at Electrolux.
During our close collaboration, I witnessed firsthand his admirable ability to lead with ambition, strong conviction, empathy, and deep understanding of such design disciplines as interaction design, digital experience for users/customers, service design, and DesignOps."
Design Director, Evinova
Jeff Klimek
"Allen’s ability to define and refine processes has been transformative to our UX team. Under his guidance, we established clear workflows that brought efficiency and consistency to our design efforts. He introduced a "learn one, know all" mindset for interaction patterns, which successfully united regional teams across the globe. This approach fostered a shared understanding and alignment, ensuring that teams could work collaboratively and productively regardless of our location."
Director Design, Electrolux
Andriy Yasynetskyy
"I had the privilege of working under Allen's exceptional design leadership for three years as a Senior Interaction Designer at Electrolux.
During our close collaboration, I witnessed firsthand his admirable ability to lead with ambition, strong conviction, empathy, and deep understanding of such design disciplines as interaction design, digital experience for users/customers, service design, and DesignOps."
Design Director, Evinova
