Steph

Hargreaves

Senior Product Designer

10 years of experience

Based in London

$20m revenue in nine days: 
Leveraging AI to design new investment experiences
LEAD PRODUCT DESIGNER @ HENI
Organised assets: Designing ‘pots’ to help investors segment crypto and fiat together
SENIOR PRODUCT DESIGNER @ BITSTOCKS
Increasing user reactivation: Optimising the experience of account restrictions
LEAD PRODUCT DESIGNER @ BITSTOCKS
43% decrease in time between sessions: 
Designing a way to 'sweep' the trading floor
LEAD PRODUCT DESIGNER @ HENI
Decentralised trading: Designing an analytics platform for professional NFT traders
SENIOR PRODUCT DESIGNER @ HENI ANALYTICS X PALM
Blockchain dev tools: Helping tv and film companies easily ship web3 projects
LEAD PRODUCT DESIGNER @ HENI X PALM NFT
$2 trilllion art market: Helping banks and high-net-worth individuals insure art collections worth over $500m
SENIOR PRODUCT DESIGNER @ HENI
Reducing false positives by 34%: Partnering with Fincrime teams to design internal tooling that helps investigators focus on the right cases.
LEAD PRODUCT DESIGNER @ BITSTOCKS
Asynchronous intractions: 
Designing intelligent student-tutor interactions to improve the elarning experience
LEAD PRODUCT DESIGNER @ digital fashion school
$2 trilllion art market: Helping banks and hight-net-worth individuals insure art collections worth over $500m
SENIOR PRODUCT DESIGNER @ BITSTOCKS
Decentralised trading: Designing an analytics platform for professional NFT traders
SENIOR PRODUCT DESIGNER @ BITSTOCKS
Reducing false positives by 34%: Partnering with Fincrime teams to design internal tooling that boosts productivity
LEAD PRODUCT DESIGNER @ BITSTOCKS
Asynchronous intractions: 
Designing intelligent student-tutor interactions to improve the elarning experience
LEAD PRODUCT DESIGNER @ HENI
Impact at HENI
AI, investments and revenue _
As the lead product designer at HENI, I crafted new end-to-end experiences for professional investors, designed B2B for banks, overhauled internal tools, shipped a new design system, streamlined complex web3 user journeys, designed portfolio management systems for portfolios worth $500m+, led design for a project that generated $20m revenue in 9 days and much more.
B2C
AI
Generated $20m+ revenue in nine days  🚀
Lead Designer
B2B
Designed for banks insuring collections worth $500m+
Internal tooling
Increased company efficiency over 70% with improved tooling
B2C
WEB3
Designed complex web3 smart contract builders & user flows
IMPACT AT BITSTOCKS
// Boosting retention & building user trust
At Bitstocks I boosted retention during public distrust within the industry, increased the KYC completion 33% by streamlining the UX, identified painpoints with blocked user accounts which led to shipping a secrity flag system along with internal fincrime tools to reduce the fraud false positive rate by 36% and increased the DAU. I also deigned an intelligent incentive scheme that rewards users long-term.
IMPROVING THE UX
Fostering trust and transparency with strategic design
0->1
Designing an eco-friendly marketplace
END-TO-END
Shipped a security flag system and internal fincrime tools
ONBOARDING
Streamlined onboarding to boost KYC completion 23%
# About me
Skills
Design craft
First principles thinking
Product strategy
Product roadmapping
Prototyping at speed
Articulating design decisions
Efficient cross-collaboration
Improving design systems w/ expertise
Adapting to different ways of working
Awards
The Paul Smith Design Prize
London
2016
CREST Gold Award in STEM
British Science Association
2010
Experience
Senior/Lead Product designer 
HENI
2022 – Present
Senior Product designer 
Bitstocks
2020 – 2022
Lead Product designer
Digital Fashion School
2016 – 2020
Senior UX/UI designer
Twyn
2016
Studio Assistant
Dan Tobin Smith x Apple
2015 – 2016
UX/UI Specialist
University of the Arts London
2013 – 2016
Web & Product designer
Freelancing
2013 – 2016
Mentoring & Lecturing Experience
Design Mentor
ADPList, Book a session
2022 – Present
Visiting Guest Lecturer
University of the Arts London
2020 – 2023
Education
Ba (Hons) with First Class Honors
UAL London
Post Graduate Cert Academic Practice
Central Saint Martins
Python Programming
Code First Girls
Certifications
Adobe Certified Associate in Print & Digital Media Publication Using Adobe InDesign
Adobe Certified Associate in Graphic Design & Illustration Using Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Certified Associate in Visual Communication Using Adobe Photoshop
Selected Projects
SELECTED CASE STUDIES
HENI
Designing web3 analytics and the UX of token bridging
I led the end to end design of an interactive web tool that aims to visualize the lunar orbital regions in space.
I lead the 0→1 conceptualization and designs, along with leading two ideation workshops, four user interviews, stakeholder presentations, and five shipped features in collaboration with fellow student engineers.
Bitstocks
Designing an eco-friendly 
NFT Marketplace from 0→1
I led the end to end design of an interactive web tool that aims to visualize the lunar orbital regions in space.
I lead the 0→1 conceptualization and designs, along with leading two ideation workshops, four user interviews, stakeholder presentations, and five shipped features in collaboration with fellow student engineers.
Palm Network
Designing for smart contracts and a culturally important NFT project
I led the end to end design of an interactive web tool that aims to visualize the lunar orbital regions in space.
I lead the 0→1 conceptualization and designs, along with leading two ideation workshops, four user interviews, stakeholder presentations, and five shipped features in collaboration with fellow student engineers.
Digital Fashion School
Revolutionising education for digital fasihon designers
I led the end to end design of an interactive web tool that aims to visualize the lunar orbital regions in space.
I lead the 0→1 conceptualization and designs, along with leading two ideation workshops, four user interviews, stakeholder presentations, and five shipped features in collaboration with fellow student engineers.
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Designing with craft and strategy.Recently led design of a project that generated $20m in nine days.
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Experience leading projects and teams, raising the bar internally and shipping successful high-craft products.

Steph is a senior product designer who works with high craft and strategic vision, often working in complex areas involving emerging tech & AI, fintech & investments, crypto & blockchain, and more.

Steph is a senior product designer who works with high craft and strategic vision, often working in complex areas involving emerging tech & AI, fintech & investments, crypto & blockchain, and more.

Steph has ten years experience and works with high craft and strategic vision. She recently led design for AI project that generated $20m in first nine days.

Harnessing AI to design new collector experiences and generate $20m+ revenue
$20m revenue in the first nine days: Harnessing AI to design new investment experiences
HENI, 2024
As the lead product designer, I crafted a new product that helped legitimise AI as a genuine tool for investment in fine art.

Did you know that blue-chip art has outperformed the S&P500 by 34% from 1994-2024?

Role
Lead Product Designer @ HENI
Outcomes
· in first nine days 🚀
· 60m+ interactions in first nine days
· High community engagement
· Invaluable data for future projects
· Legitimised company reputation
Increasing user reactivation by optimising the experience of account restrictions
BITSTOCKS
I transformed the UX of account restrictions to create contextual self-service flows, reducing support tickets by 42% and improving reactivation rates by 28%.
Role
Senior Product Designer @ Bitstocks
Outcomes
· in first nine days 🚀
· 60m+ interactions in first nine days
· High community engagement
· Invaluable data for future projects
· Legitimised company reputation
Project details coming soon
HENI
Helping banks and HNWIs insure their blue-chip art collections worth $500m+
I helped institutional clients and high-net-worth individuals underwrite some of the world’s most valuable artworks. The project was built from the ground up, involving close collaboration with stakeholders and direct presentations to former Dow Jones C-suite executives.
Role
Lead Product Designer @ HENI
Outcomes
· in first nine days 🚀
· 60m+ interactions in first nine days
· High community engagement
· Invaluable data for future projects
· Legitimised company reputation
Project details coming soon
BITSTOCKS
Designing 'pots' to help users organise their different tokens and fiat balances in one place
I designed an intuitive way for users to organise their investments around individual needs, whether it's a dream holiday or savings for the future - users could now segment and manage different crypto currencies alongside fiat currencies and crypto tokens in the same place.
Role
Senior Product Designer @ Bitstocks
Outcomes
· in first nine days 🚀
· 60m+ interactions in first nine days
· High community engagement
· Invaluable data for future projects
· Legitimised company reputation
An Eco-friendly NFT Marketplace
Bitstocks
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Fincrime tooling
Bitstocks
Professional archivist tools
Prudence Cumming
High stakes data ingestion
HENI Group
A note on internal projects & NDAs
Get in touch if you want to discuss internal tooling. The details are often behind a contractual NDA but I can discuss how I navigated complicated schemas, cross-collaborated, streamlined workflows and increased company efficiency.
Harnessing AI to design new collector experiences and generate $20m+ revenue
$20m revenue in the first nine days: Harnessing AI to design new investment experiences
HENI, 2024
As the lead product designer, I crafted a new product that helped legitimise AI as a genuine tool for investment in fine art.

Did you know that blue-chip art has outperformed the S&P500 by 34% from 1994-2024?

Role
Lead Product Designer @ HENI
Outcomes
· in first nine days 🚀
· 60m+ interactions in first nine days
· High community engagement
· Invaluable data for future projects
· Legitimised company reputation
Increasing user reactivation by optimising the experience of account restrictions
BITSTOCKS
I transformed the UX of account restrictions to create contextual self-service flows, reducing support tickets by 42% and improving reactivation rates by 28%.
Role
Senior Product Designer @ Bitstocks
Outcomes
· in first nine days 🚀
· 60m+ interactions in first nine days
· High community engagement
· Invaluable data for future projects
· Legitimised company reputation
Project details coming soon
HENI
Helping banks and HNWIs insure their blue-chip art collections worth $500m+
I helped institutional clients and high-net-worth individuals underwrite some of the world’s most valuable artworks. The project was built from the ground up, involving close collaboration with stakeholders and direct presentations to former Dow Jones C-suite executives.
Role
Lead Product Designer @ HENI
Outcomes
· in first nine days 🚀
· 60m+ interactions in first nine days
· High community engagement
· Invaluable data for future projects
· Legitimised company reputation
Project details coming soon
BITSTOCKS
Designing 'pots' to help users organise their different tokens and fiat balances in one place
I designed an intuitive way for users to organise their investments around individual needs, whether it's a dream holiday or savings for the future - users could now segment and manage different crypto currencies alongside fiat currencies and crypto tokens in the same place.
Role
Senior Product Designer @ Bitstocks
Outcomes
· in first nine days 🚀
· 60m+ interactions in first nine days
· High community engagement
· Invaluable data for future projects
· Legitimised company reputation

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