I’m an interaction designer and GDS trained design assessor. I have good knowledge of the GOV.UK Design System, Service Manual and Style Guide. SC cleared.

Here’s my story:

When I was 16 years old, I wanted to design logos and websites.

I had an eye for design, but lacked the practical skill to do it. So I ended up going into frontend development which was more technical.

But most of the designers I worked with gave me complicated and inaccessible designs to implement.

Sometimes I’d suggest changes to simplify the design and improve accessibility. But no matter how solid my rationale or how simple my solution, I couldn’t convince the designers to make changes.

I felt frustrated having to go back to my desk to implement designs which were harder to build, inaccessible and slow to load.

As a result, I started to believe that designers only cared about aesthetics.

In 2014, my wife and I had our home renovated just in time for the arrival of our first baby. But three weeks into a new six-month contract, I was let go. I’d never had so much responsibility and so little money.

But I got a new contract as a UX prototyper at Just Eat, the UK’s leading takeaway delivery service.

Prior to this role I wasn’t part of the design process. So by the time designs were given to me to implement, it always felt too late to give feedback and suggest changes.

But at Just Eat I was embedded in the design team where I could influence solutions from the start.

To my surprise, the designers there weren’t just focused on aesthetics; they cared about UX. We did user research, ran A/B tests and tracked performance.

I worked closely with Mark Jenkins, the lead designer. But he wasn’t like the other designers I had worked with before. He listened to what I had to say and valued it. He advocated for doing the most basic thing, doing it quickly and learning. He didn’t fuss over pixels.

Most importantly, he showed me that, not only was it possible to be a designer like this but that it was better to be a designer like this.

For example, we redesigned the checkout journey by using the most basic and accessible solution. The result was an increased conversion of 5% – 37,000 orders a week.

Mark also encouraged me to start a blog. And 2 of my early posts went viral on Hacker News (multiple times over).

I realised I wasn’t alone and that others resonated with my design philosophy.

Now I’m trying to be the designer I wish I got to work with when I was a dev.

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Adam Silver

You've built something technically solid. People are happy to try your SaaS product, but they’re not quite sure what to do next. They get stuck, a bit confused, and many leave before seeing the value.

Then support tickets pile up with the same questions. Trials quickly drop off and demos don't quite land. Your product has everything users need, they just can't figure out how to actually use it.

Meanwhile, you're spending money on marketing to bring in new users, but UX is costing you customers on the other end.

And the longer you wait, the harder it gets to fix. Because now you have users, and a product that feels like a "Frankenstein," it's functional but clunky, with features bolted on as you've grown.

After 12 years working with 30+ B2B SaaS companies, here's what I've learned:Most engineering teams aren’t set up to solve UX problems. And when that gap exists, users get stuck, don't know what to do next, where to click, or why they should care.

The good news is fixing it doesn't take months of research or endless "what if we try..." cycles. It usually just needs someone who's seen this pattern before and knows what moves the needle.

Imagine your product working like this:

People try it and immediately just 'get it'. No hand-holding or confusion.

Trials turn into paid customers because users reach value fast. Customers stick around because your product is genuinely intuitive. And all those features you've built actually get used.

That's what I do for B2B SaaS companies.I partner with B2B SaaS founders and engineering teams (typically Seed to Series A) who've built something powerful but know it's UX hasn't kept up with the product.

I don't disappear for weeks and come back with a big reveal. I move fast, ship meaningful improvements in the first week, and focus on stuff that matters - better onboarding, higher conversions, and lower churn.

Here’s what that’s meant for some clients:

-  30% growth in revenue (SiteGuru)
-  25% lift in trial-to-paid conversions (SendX)
-  Faster time to market to win those first customers (Ring4, Ascend)

If your product’s confusing people and slowing down growth, let’s chat. Drop me a DM.

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