Freelance Product & Experience Designer · Auckland

I design digital products, learning systems and campaigns — and I take them all the way to finished.

Fifteen years of UX, design systems, gamification and narrative work. I run as a one-person studio, so you get the thinking and the finished files from the same person. Currently working with clients in New Zealand and Europe.

Taking on new projects · remote or onsite in Auckland

Trusted by 15+ yrsdesign practice NZ & Europelive client work Solobrief to final files
What I do Product Design UX / UI Design Design Systems Interactive Learning Gamification AI-Assisted Design Brand & Campaign Narrative Design Fiction Writing Game Worldbuilding
Selected work

What I've been building

Two live client projects, one self-initiated product and the narrative research behind all of it.

Maritime Product Systems — operational dashboard UI
Freelance client · Satlink, international

Maritime Product Systems

Product UI Visual Design System
Enterprise Applications Data Visualisation

Contracted to design the UI foundations, visual system and operational tools behind a satellite monitoring platform used by fishing fleets across the world’s oceans.

Festival poster system — shadows forming a crane with a gold seam
Current New Zealand client Freelance creative lead for a Bay of Plenty arts organisation Identity, campaign and handover system for their 2027 edition, contracted through Foxtale. Work shown once the edition is announced
Freelance client · Tauranga, New Zealand

Film Festival Identity

Art Direction Campaign Strategy
Design System Motion

Full creative authority over a film festival edition: identity, format system, motion and a seven-month campaign a team of two can run alone.

Case study coming soon
Learning Experiences — gamified educational interface
Self-initiated · Built solo

Gamified Learning

Gamification Interactive Learning
Progression Systems Educational Design

A QA process designed end to end, then turned into a gamified course that teaches it. Proof of what I can take from brief to finished product on my own.

Narrative Experiences — worldbuilding and storytelling design
Own IP · Narrative research

Narrative Experiences

Narrative Systems Worldbuilding
Storytelling Emotional Design

Worldbuilding, folklore research and a finished novel — the narrative craft behind the structure I bring to product work.

Working together since 2010 — across three companies
Fernando led the visual storytelling of our projects and kept design, narrative and user engagement aligned across all of them. He brought creativity, attention to detail and a strategic vision that contributed directly to the success of our digital initiatives.
Rogelio Vida Navarro Head of Software & Data, Satlink
previously VP of Software Engineering, Cognodata Consulting
Services

How we can work together

Four ways to hire me, one person doing the work in all of them.

Product & UX design

Interfaces, dashboards, operational tools and data-heavy screens. Design system, component set and developer-ready specs included, not quoted separately.

Best as a fixed-scope project or a few weeks embedded with your team

Learning & gamified experiences

Onboarding, internal training and documentation turned into something people finish: progression, feedback and a reason to keep going. Built and delivered, not just specified.

Usually one project, from content audit to working product

Brand, campaign & art direction

Visual identity and the format system behind it, so every poster, reel and social piece comes from one master and your team can produce the rest without me.

Project, with an optional retainer through the campaign

AI-assisted production

Image, video and copy pipelines that hold a brand steady across dozens of assets. I use AI where it saves days and keep the decisions, the final UI and the quality bar manual.

Standalone, or folded into any of the above
How it starts

A short call, then a written proposal with scope, price and dates before anything begins.

How I charge

Fixed price per project, or a day rate for embedded work. No surprises mid-way.

How I work

One person, start to finish. You talk to the designer doing the work — client work in English and Spanish.

Where

Auckland-based. Onsite across Tamaki Makaurau, remote anywhere — I already run projects across time zones.

Not sure which of these you need? That is a normal place to start.

Tell me about the problem
Tools I work with
Claude
Midjourney
Runway
Figma Weave
ChatGPT
Meshy
ElevenLabs
Before all that

Fifteen years, six kinds of problem

Client work across banking, retail, health, industry and culture — in Spain, and now here.

Vino10 — gamified wine discovery app

Gamification & learning systems

Progression, challenges and motivation design for training, internal communication and engagement programmes.

Vino10 · WAC · SCL Explorers · SoccerHolding

Encore Solutions corporate website

Web & digital experiences

Sites and digital products with a clear architecture, readable navigation and a story running through them.

Encore Solutions · Multi-platform projects

Satlink buoy anchoring manual

Infographics & instruction design

Technical manuals and process diagrams that people can follow without a second explanation.

Satlink anchoring manual · Industrial filtration

Blue Carer health monitoring platform

Healthcare information design

Health communication for patients and carers, where being misunderstood has a real cost.

Blue Carer · Virtual care

GinBear artisan gin brand identity

Retail & brand systems

Identities and retail experiences for small businesses, from the mark to what ends up on the shelf.

GinBear, Madrid · Myth & Meadow

Illustration and visual storytelling work

Visual storytelling & illustration

Characters, worlds and compositions built to carry meaning, not just decorate a page.

Editorial · Worldbuilding · Guides

Have a project in mind?

Let's create something meaningful together.

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