Dan Walker
I've always been curious about how things work. That curiosity started during my fine art degree and grew into over a decade building digital products — from freelance work to designing at scale.
I specialise in complex system design, high-fidelity prototyping, and building design practice in organisations where none previously existed. I work closely with engineering and product teams to turn strategy into user experience.
Selected work
Next had no internal design function when I joined. I built it from scratch — establishing research practice, a shared design system, and ways of working across six product teams.
View case study →Designing a social platform that measures success in books read and albums discovered. Not time spent scrolling.
View case study →A summer project building a pass-and-play strategy game for iOS with my son. We took it from sketches to a shipped App Store app. A hands-on dive into game UX, Swift development, and launch day nerves.
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