The future is Now

Product

About

I help scale-ups create high quality prototypes to win deals. My role has transformed—I now orchestrate AI tools to multiply output and deliver 10× the impact.

Products

Things I've built and shipped

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Dispatch

Send articles to your Kindle in one click, from your browser or your Mac.

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Shader Wall

A macOS app that puts a living shader behind your windows. Try the whole app in your browser.

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Thesis

Assumption mapping for product teams. Shared, sentence-level theses where every claim is mappable, testable, and visible during prioritization.

How design has changed with AI

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Experience

Enterprise AI Group

May 2025 – Present

Lead Product Designer

Building AI-powered enterprise solutions. One-person product team delivering prototypes that win deals.

SEEK

May 2022 – Sep 2024

Senior Product Designer

Led discovery and design for candidate-facing products. Built AI resume tools and skills-based course finders.

Best Practice Software

Oct 2019 – May 2022

UX Designer

Designed cloud-based practice management SaaS. Prototyping, validation, workshops, and component libraries.

Kind words from colleagues

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Winnie Bamra

Senior Product Manager · Ex-SpaceX · SEEK

Gareth is a pleasure to work with and an asset to any team. He is diligent in discovery, passionate about the end user, empathetic, and collaborative in his approach. He is excellent at leading user interviews, enabling the team to collect and extract actionable insights.

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Richard Simms

Principal Product Designer · SEEK

A talented senior UX designer who can independently drive projects forward. His designs reflected a deep understanding of our users, combined with a mastery of UX principles. Meticulous attention to detail and craft are evident in everything he produces.

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Ahmed Hakeem

Staff Engineer · SEEK

A developer's best friend. I have many fond memories bouncing ideas around and jamming out features end to end from fake door tests to deployment. At every step Gareth was inquisitive, collaborative and open to thinking on their feet.

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David Deville

Senior Content Designer · SEEK

Gareth goes above and beyond designing for customer needs. Fast experimentation, elegant designs and constant iteration resulted in products like an AI-powered resume generator that genuinely helped candidates. A positive, creative and likeable teammate.

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Henry Vesander

Chief Product Officer · Best Practice Software

An outstanding UX/product designer. I hired him to build a cloud-based practice management SaaS. He is a driven individual that can be trusted in getting the job done once given guidance and a brief. I definitely recommend Gareth!

Product Thinkers

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Teresa Torres

Author, Continuous Discovery Habits

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Chris Spiek & Bob Moesta

Jobs-to-be-Done Practitioners

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Ryan Singer

Author, Shape Up

Shape UpShapingProduct Strategy
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Christopher Alexander

Architect & Design Theorist

A Pattern LanguageDesign PatternsTimeless Design

Essays

Agentic user testing

Removing the friction of setting up user tests, and getting results you can trust when you design in HTML, not Figma.

Three tools before the game

Sliders for the feel, a frame strip for your own mistakes, and recorded players of four skill levels: the tools Wallbounce was built with, and what each one told us.

Opportunity sizing, but Balatro

Sizing a product bet like a hand of cards: people are chips, dollars are mult, and a growth loop is a joker.

You Can Conjure Your Own Tools Now

In Figma, you waited for someone to ship the feature. With AI code tools, you build the creative tool you need in the moment you need it.

The GUI Has to Earn Its Place

I used to accept GUIs as the default. Now, if a chat interface could do it faster, the GUI feels like friction.

How I Handle Conflict

Disagreements aren't problems to avoid—they're opportunities to learn. Here's how I turn product debates into experiments.

The Future is Now

AI has fundamentally changed how designers produce their work. This is my journey from Figma to shipping real code.