Nich

Heya, I’m Nich! 👋

I’m a Product Designer that loves designingapps, experiences and everything inbetween for forward-thinking businesses.


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About Me

I'm a Senior Product Designer with 10+ years of experience owning products end-to-end — from ambiguous problem spaces to shipped code. I work best at the intersection of design and engineering: I prototype in Figma, validate in code, and contribute production-ready React directly. No handoff required.

I've led design for complex SaaS platforms, built design systems from the ground up, and integrated AI into how I work at every stage — from synthesizing research to closing the gap between what I imagine and what ends up in front of a user.

In my free time, I’m either reading for my Book Club, building a side project, cheering on the Raptors, or (my latest obsession) learning about wine.

Currently at Mappedin, designing the future of how people navigate airports and large venues.


Work Principles

Clarity before beauty.

A beautiful interface that confuses people is a failed interface. I start with the hardest user problem and let the visual language serve the solution — not the other way around.

Ship it, learn from it.

I have strong opinions about craft, but I hold them loosely enough to let real data change my mind. Prototyping and testing aren't extra steps — they're the work.

Close the gap.

The further a designer sits from the code, the more meaning gets lost in translation. I stay close to implementation because that's where the real decisions happen.

Design systems are a team sport.

A component no one adopts is just a Figma file. The best systems I've built were shaped as much by engineers and PMs as by me.


AI in My Workflow

I use AI the way I use any good tool — to get closer to the work faster. Not to replace thinking, but to reduce the friction between having an idea and being able to evaluate it.

In practice that looks like: using LLMs to synthesize research and surface patterns I might miss, generating code scaffolds I can refine instead of writing boilerplate, and shortening the loop between “I wonder what this would look like” and an actual prototype in front of a user.

What I've found is that AI is best at compressing the boring parts — the parts that used to slow me down without adding much signal. It frees me up to spend more time on the things that actually require judgment: what problem are we solving, for whom, and does this design actually solve it?



Experience

Mappedin (2025 – Present)

Senior Product Designer

Catalog Studios (2020 – 2024)

Senior Product Designer

Skrumble Technologies Inc. (2016 – 2019)

Art Director

OCAD University (2012 – 2016)

Bachelor of Design

Side Projects

Book Sluts

Sassy Book Club.

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Truncate First Word Figma Plugin

Simple plugin for truncating text.

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Recipease

Simple recipe visualizer.

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Labz

Little design engineering experiments.

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