Product design,
done with care.
I'm Alex Mercer - a freelance product designer crafting intuitive digital experiences for startups and established brands. I help teams ship products people love, from research through final polish.
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Eight years of helping teams ship with confidence.
I'm a freelance product designer with 8+ years of experience helping startups and established brands ship products people love. I specialize in UX research, interaction design, and design systems - partnering closely with engineering, product, and leadership from kickoff through launch.
Based in San Francisco, available for remote and on-site engagements. I move comfortably between 0-to-1 product discovery and polishing mature interfaces that need a careful eye.
- Native to ambiguity
- Pair with engineers
- Pragmatic about scope
- Quiet about process
Recent case studies.
A small sample of recent partnerships. Each project is built end-to-end - research, IA, interaction, and a working handoff you can ship from.
Led end-to-end redesign of a mobile banking app serving 2M+ users. Reduced onboarding drop-off by 34% and improved task completion rates across core flows.
Designed a multi-platform health dashboard from 0 to 1, integrating wearable data and personalized insights. Shipped to 50k users in under 6 months.
Rebuilt the core workspace experience for a B2B SaaS tool, cutting average task-creation time by 40% through streamlined IA and micro-interactions.
What I bring to your team.
- UX Research & Strategy
- Interaction Design
- Prototyping & Wireframing
- Design Systems
- FFigma
- FrFramer
- NNotion
- JiJira
- LoLottie
- PrPrinciple
Weekly async standups, two live sessions per week, and async written research notes - so the rest of your team can move forward without waiting on me.
Let's build something
great together.
I'm currently available for select freelance projects. Reach out and let's talk about what you're building - even if you're still forming the brief.