Jacob Lapworth is a Senior Product Designer with a decade of experience crafting digital products and design systems across fintech and SaaS in distributed teams. Based in London, he has led mobile and cross-platform design for high‑usage apps, driven shared design guilds, and translated brand into scalable component libraries that reduce change aversion and speed experimentation. Equally comfortable sketching user journeys or shipping features, he’s taken on product ownership, coding and release management to ensure designs are delivered end-to-end. Known for breaking complex problems into actionable roadmaps, he combines qualitative research with quantitative insight to empower users and teams. Notably, his background spans hands-on mobile work for 1.2M MAU apps and building governance around cohesive cross‑platform experiences.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Design, Bachelor of Design at Massey University
Certificate, Certificate at CPIT (Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology)
Contributions:1 release, 38 PRs, 58 pushes in 1 year
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