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Herbie

Consulting

I help teams turn complex product challenges into clear direction.

I work with product teams, founders and organisations to identify product challenges, structure complexity and turn ideas into clear, actionable digital experiences.

  • Product Strategy
  • UX Consulting
  • Design Systems
  • AI Experience

Complexity

  • Information
  • Users
  • Technology
  • Business
  • AI
  • Workflows

Clarity

Direction

The problems I help solve

When should we work together?

01

Product complexity

Your product is getting more complex.

You have more features, users and workflows — but the product is becoming harder to understand.

I help bring structure back into the experience.

02

Unclear direction

You have an idea but no clear product direction.

The vision exists, but it is still unclear what the product should actually be and how it should work.

I help turn ideas into a tangible product direction.

03

Inconsistent experience

Your UX and UI are inconsistent.

Different features feel like they belong to different products.

I help create consistency through clear patterns and scalable design systems.

04

AI opportunity

You want to integrate AI into your product.

You know AI could create value, but it is unclear where and how.

I help identify meaningful AI opportunities and design understandable AI experiences.

Consulting areas

Where I can help.

01

Product & UX Strategy

Create clarity before building.

Relevant for

  • New digital products
  • Complex product ideas
  • SaaS platforms
  • Product redesigns
  • Strategic product decisions

Focus areas

  • Product vision
  • User needs
  • Problem definition
  • Information architecture
  • Product strategy
  • User flows
  • Prioritisation

Outcome

A clear product direction and a structured foundation for design and development.

02

UX & Product Design

Turn complex workflows into intuitive experiences.

Focus areas

  • Complex user flows
  • SaaS interfaces
  • Dashboards
  • Data-heavy products
  • Enterprise software
  • Mobile apps
  • Product concepts
  • Interactive prototypes

Outcome

Clear user journeys, validated concepts and high-fidelity product experiences.

03

Design Systems

Build consistency that scales.

Focus areas

  • Design foundations
  • Typography
  • Color systems
  • Spacing and layout systems
  • UI components
  • Interaction patterns
  • Design tokens
  • Figma libraries
  • Design-to-code collaboration

Outcome

A scalable system that creates consistency and helps teams move faster.

04

AI Experience

Make AI useful, understandable and trustworthy.

Focus areas

  • AI product features
  • Conversational interfaces
  • Agentic experiences
  • AI workflows
  • Prompt UX
  • Human-in-the-loop interactions
  • Feedback loops
  • Explainability

Outcome

AI experiences that fit naturally into real user workflows.

05

Product & Design Leadership

Create alignment between product, design and technology.

Focus areas

  • Stakeholder alignment
  • Product workshops
  • UX vision
  • Design direction
  • Design reviews
  • Product critiques
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Design process improvement

Outcome

Better decisions, clearer priorities and stronger alignment across teams.

How I work

From uncertainty to direction.

  1. 01

    Understand

    Understand the product, the problem and the context.

    • Product analysis
    • Existing UX review
    • Stakeholder discussions
    • User needs
    • Workflow analysis
  2. 02

    Align

    Create a shared understanding of priorities and opportunities.

    • Workshops
    • Problem framing
    • Opportunity mapping
    • Product vision
    • Alignment sessions
  3. 03

    Explore

    Explore possible solutions.

    • Information architecture
    • User flows
    • Product concepts
    • Wireframes
    • Prototypes
  4. 04

    Decide

    Turn insights into clear, actionable decisions.

    • Evaluation
    • Prioritisation
    • Concept validation
    • Design reviews
    • Recommendations
  5. 05

    Move

    Create a practical foundation for the next steps.

    • Product roadmap input
    • UX direction
    • Prototype
    • Design foundation
    • Implementation recommendations

Engagement models

Ways to work together.

Product & UX Review

Get an expert perspective.

  1. Review
  2. Analysis
  3. Recommendations
  4. Priorities

Suitable for

  • Existing products
  • Specific features
  • UX problems
  • Product decisions
  • Complex workflows

Product Workshop

Create clarity together.

A focused workshop around a specific product challenge.

Possible topics

  • Product vision
  • AI opportunities
  • User journeys
  • Information architecture
  • UX strategy
  • Product direction

Embedded Consulting

Work directly with your team.

I work closely with the product team for a defined period.

Suitable for

  • Complex SaaS products
  • Product discovery
  • Product redesigns
  • New features
  • Design systems

Fractional Design Lead

Senior design leadership without a full-time hire.

Temporary support for teams that need design direction now.

Support with

  • Design direction
  • UX strategy
  • Design reviews
  • Stakeholder alignment
  • Product critiques
  • Design process improvement

Typical outcomes

What you leave with.

  1. 01

    Clarity

    A better understanding of the real product problem.

  2. 02

    Direction

    A clear path forward for product and design decisions.

  3. 03

    Alignment

    Shared understanding across stakeholders and disciplines.

  4. 04

    Confidence

    Decisions based on structured thinking instead of assumptions.

  5. 05

    Momentum

    A practical foundation to move forward.

Why work with me

Strategy meets execution.

I combine strategic product thinking with hands-on design execution.

Herbie at a table working on a sticker-covered laptop, hands on the keyboard.

I understand complex products

Experience with complex SaaS platforms, cloud and DevOps products, recruiting systems, digital health products, data-heavy interfaces and mobile applications.

I can move from strategy to interface

Consulting that does not stop at workshops or presentations. Ideas become user flows, product concepts, prototypes, high-fidelity interfaces and design systems.

I work across disciplines

Product decisions live where users, business, product, design and technology meet. That intersection is where I work.

Users

Business

Product

Technology

Design

Let's make the complex clearer.

Have a product challenge, a difficult workflow or an idea that needs direction?

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