Harry Parkin

A product designer who builds.

I'm Harry, a Senior Product Designer with a background in Industrial Design. At Motorway, I lead design across the core marketplace and post-sale experience, working with product and engineering to solve complex problems for dealers and sellers.

Outside of work, I design and build my own products end to end — Punt, a free-to-play sports prediction game, and Jeff, an AI friend who always knows what's on.

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How I work

Get close to the problem

The best insights rarely come from a screen. For Handshake, I joined dealers on vehicle collections to see the handover for myself.

Design the system, not just the screen

Features get easier when the structure underneath is right — like one hierarchy for every card, filter and vehicle page on the Marketplace.

Treat launch as the start

Real use is where the design work begins. Punt's Fan Status was rebuilt once the data showed most players never left the first level.

Build what I design

Building my own products means I know the constraints and trade-offs, and can test ideas with real users rather than leaving them in a file.

Experience

  1. Motorway — Senior Product Designer
    2022 – Present

    Design across the core marketplace and post-sale experience, including Handshake.

  2. Punt — Founder & Product Designer
    2025 – Present

    A free-to-play sports prediction app, designed and built from concept to launch.

  3. Plum Guide — Product Designer
    2021 – 2022

    The tools hosts use to manage their homes — search, earnings, calendars and bookings.

  4. Blubolt — Product Designer
    2020 – 2021

    E-commerce experiences for international brands, across desktop and mobile.

  5. Wayhome — UX Designer
    2018 – 2019

    An internal property valuation tool and a consumer-facing website.

  6. Earlier
    2016 – 2018

    UX Designer at Appy Ventures and PA Consulting's innovation lab, and Venture Founder at InMotion.

Skills & education

Product design

Strategy, discovery, research, information architecture, interaction and UI design, prototyping, testing and design systems.

Leadership

Design leadership, cross-functional collaboration, stakeholder alignment, workshops and end-to-end delivery.

Tools

Figma, Claude Code, Kiro, Codex, Jira and Notion — plus React Native, Expo and Supabase for my own products.

Education

Industrial Design & Technology (BA Hons), Loughborough University. UX Design Immersive, General Assembly.