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About · Cardiff, Wales

Cameron Calder. Senior Product Designer (UX/UI).

I’m a senior product designer with 7+ years across banking, insurance, SaaS, and media. I’m happiest in the middle of a messy product problem: finding the signal, making the trade-offs clear, and turning it into something people can use with confidence.

How I work

I bring visual craft, interaction design, and design-systems depth, but lead with product judgment and evidence. I work directly with product, engineering, research, content, data, marketing, and compliance, because the best answer rarely belongs to one discipline and almost never arrives fully formed in the brief.

Building as well as designing

Alongside my product roles, I co-founded QZee, a booking platform for service businesses, and led its product design. It kept me close to the consequences of design decisions: getting a feature shipped, watching where people struggle, handling commercial constraints, and improving the product without hiding behind a handoff.

In the room

Cameron Calder presenting QZee at the Google x Tramshed Start-Up Academy
Pitching QZee at the Google x Tramshed Start-Up Academy.
Cameron Calder beside the DAO-B project stand at a university showcase
Presenting DAO-B at a university project showcase.
Cameron Calder coaching a team at an annual financial-services hackathon
Coaching a team as a Certified Design Coach at an annual financial-services hackathon.

Principles

Clarity first

Good design makes the product easier to understand. Looking good is the easy part.

Decisions over screens

Anyone can show screens. The real signal is the decisions, constraints, trade-offs, and outcomes behind them.

Systems protect quality

Reusable patterns keep quality high when the product moves faster than any one designer can review.

Experience

  • Senior UX Designer (Contract) · One of the UK's biggest banksOct 2025 to Present

    Lead a team of designers on the subscriptions experience inside a high-scale mobile-banking product, setting the goal and defining the problem alongside content, research, product, and engineering.

  • Senior Product Designer (Design System) · One of the UK's biggest insurersOct 2024 to Oct 2025

    Led the strategic rollout of a multi-brand design system across regulated digital products, managing a UI designer and a team of developers.

  • Mid UX Designer · One of the UK's biggest insurersNov 2023 to Oct 2024

    Designed FCA-regulated journeys with product, engineering, research, content, and compliance partners.

  • Mid UX/UI Designer · Nagra KudelskiSep 2022 to Nov 2023

    Designed responsive streaming experiences across web, mobile, and television for global media and sports products.

  • Co-founder & Product Design Lead · QZee2019 to 2025

    Co-founded the booking platform and shaped product strategy, research, flows, interface design, and commercial delivery alongside later product roles.

Awards & recognition

  • Winner, Google x Tramshed Start-Up Academy
    Google x Tramshed Tech
    Aug 2022
  • Above and Beyond departmental award
    One of the UK's biggest insurers
    Jan 2024
  • Certified Design Coach
    Annual financial-services hackathon
    2026
  • Gamechanger Award
    One of the UK's biggest banks
    Mar 2026

Certifications

Education

  • BSc Computer Science, 2:1 · Swansea University2018 to 2021

    Graduated with 68.9% overall, with a focus on UX and front-end development.

Want to work together? Let’s talk.

camcalder97@gmail.com

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