Senior Product Designer creating top-tier digital products, websites & apps. Whether it's solo or within a team, I fit in wherever needed to craft bold, high-impact experiences.
I've specialised in both design and development for over a decade, well before AI tooling arrived. Working across both brings a cohesive vision and end-to-end polish to everything I create. AI tooling supercharges how I work, letting me explore further and ship faster, while I stay in control of the craft.

C-Link
Web App Design
Making a document-heavy procurement workflow feel lightweight
Led UI and shaped the UX on a two-sided construction procurement platform. I diagnosed why the live product was hard to use, a shell caught between a website and a dashboard, then reworked the navigation and designed 10+ flows into one clear, fully responsive web app.

Finestt
iOS App Design
A wallet for people who don't speak crypto
Led creative direction from 0->1, then designed the complexity away with guided walkthroughs, plain language, and a clean split between everyday money and investing so neither side felt intimidating.

Bitstarter
Web App Design & Build
Crowdfunding, built on a chain with no tooling
No wallet libraries, no connection kits. I designed the wallet and transaction flows from scratch to feel effortless. Early launches raised $500K+ USD from over 200 contributors, with the fastest crowdfund closing in under an hour.

Metacade
Web App Design & Build
Website Design
Designing every surface of a gaming platform
Inherited a tournaments product built with no UX and rebuilt it into one progression system, with empty, loading and error states designed in rather than retrofitted.

Launchpool
Web App Design & Build
Rewriting the launchpad model for the people doing the investing
With no patterns for wallet mismatches or mid-flow chain switching, I designed the failure and recovery states from scratch. $260M+ staked, 30k+ investors returning.

mPay
iOS App Design
Keeping the complexity of global money transfers hidden
Wallets, fees, signatures. All hidden behind banking patterns people already know, without the user ever needing to know a blockchain was involved.

Spaace Marketplace
Web App Design
Gamifying the new era of NFT marketplaces
18 months leading ux & product design. Ranks, rewards and referrals built directly into the buying flow making gamification the reason to stay. The marketplace processed $35M in trading volume across 170k+ transactions, with a peak trading day of $1.37M.

Nifty Football
Web App Design & Build
A football management game, built on top of NFT trading cards
Owned UX/UI across squad building, match flow and the XP economy. In-person workshops shaped the API around what the game actually needed, not the other way round.

Hypedisc
Web App Design & Build
A visual promo tool for music producers, designed and built by one
My own side project, built because the existing tools annoyed me as a producer. I designed and built the whole thing, from the create-to-render flow to the 3D pipeline.

Exploit Summit
Website Design
Bittensor's breakthrough conference, brought to life
Pushed a static brand into motion with a cursor-reactive cube field and a self-assembling logo, inside a single-page scroll built to sell tickets. That motion language later shaped the wider brand.








Dan Heywood
Senior Product Designer
2015-2026
Design
- Product Design
- App Design
- UX Design
- Website Design
- Brand Design
- Motion / Interaction Design
Development
- React / Next.js / TS
- Claude Code / Codex
- Vue / Nuxt.js
- Three.js / WebGL
- Tailwind / Shadcn
- Webflow
Sectors
- AI & Tech
- Finance
- Gaming
- Web3 / Crypto
- Music
- Health & Pharma
Design
- Product Design
- App Design
- UX Design
- Website Design
- Brand Design
- Motion / Interaction Design
Development
- React / Next.js / TS
- Claude Code / Codex
- Vue / Nuxt.js
- Three.js / WebGL
- Tailwind / Shadcn
- Webflow
Sectors
- AI & Tech
- Finance
- Gaming
- Web3 / Crypto
- Music
- Health & Pharma

Latest Side Project
I design products, but for fun, I build games.
I've always been pulled toward games design, so I built my own from scratch, playable anywhere in a browser.
Web Golf Adventure is where I explore the line where physics and graphics meet, and dial in the optimisation that keeps it smooth on any device. An ongoing playground for real-time rendering, motion and interaction. Let me know your best score.










