Designer, founder, painter. Trained in fine arts.
I'm a designer and maker. Trained in fine arts, I founded my first startup in 2012 and have been designing products ever since. Studio Vincent is my consultancy, where I help founders and product teams find the version of the work that's worth committing to.
I co-founded Kaizen, a marathon training app, leading design from zero to one. Before that I led product design at Gastfreund in Berlin, where we built a "Slack for hotels" from scratch. I've worked across consumer and B2B, with two-person teams and forty-person ones.
Outside the product work, I paint, make artworks and prints, and try out new media. It's the same activity in a different medium. Both are about finding the version of the thing that's worth making.
Here's what I've been working on over the years.
Jan 2022 — April 2026
Marathon training app, grew from 0 to 30,000+ downloads with €0 marketing. I owned brand, product UX, design system, and creative direction across the full experience, from zero to one and through the company's first paying customers.
May 2017 — Jan 2022
Led product design across a seven-product B2B suite for the hotel industry. Took the platform from a single product to a multi-product suite serving thousands of hotels, working with a forty-person engineering and product team.
Apr 2018 — Mar 2019
Improved the data collection and engagement design across the learning platform used by tens of thousands of students across schools in the UK.
Jan 2018 — May 2018
Designed the mobile-first internal unit-analysis software used by Infarm staff to monitor produce health across the company's vertical farming installations.
I grew up in [PLACEHOLDER: brief origin/upbringing context, add whatever you'd like here]. I studied fine arts at Bournemouth Arts University, where I learned to make many bad things before the good thing arrives, and to sit with uncertainty longer than feels comfortable. Both have turned out to be useful in product work.
I live in Berlin with my wife and our two small kids. I read a lot. I paint when I can. I run when I can — usually slowly, often during work calls. I'm always reading something. Currently: [PLACEHOLDER: optional current book/reading].
If you want to get in touch, the easiest way is to email me at hello@studiovincent.co. I respond to most things within a couple of days.
