Designer and product person. 10 years across startups, agencies and in-house teams. Working at the intersection of AI, systems thinking and building things that matter.
Work Experience
Principal Product Designer, Agreena
Oct 2023 – Apr 2026
Agreena is a Copenhagen-based fintech scaling regenerative agriculture across Europe. As Principal Product Designer I worked across the full product; from new feature development and acquisition flows to audience research that shaped the core value proposition.
Key workstreams included leading design for a new offering for food and beverage companies looking to reduce and inset emissions, and designing Agatha, an AI farming assistant built to align business, user and environmental goals, embedding sustainability trade-offs into the system's core reasoning.
Whilst at Agreena, I elevated design to a strategic function, taking ownership of roadmap planning and creating the conditions for faster, better-informed decisions about what to build.
Freelance Design Lead
May 2018 – Sep 2023
Design lead across agencies and direct clients, working on products and services at the intersection of technology, trust and social impact.
Clients and agencies included ustwo, R/GA and Bulb — leading large-scale projects from research through to implementation across fintech, energy and digital services.
Projects by If
Multiple projects examining trust, accountability and rights in technology. Including a design framework for accountable change in product experience within ad-funded businesses (Google), experience design for privacy enhancing technologies (Meta TTC Labs), open source software security tooling (Sigstore), and civic rights design (Luminate / Right to Object).
Farfetch
I led rebrand implementation across product and marketing channels. Redesigned video production workflows for brand consistency and automation of multi-language variants. Developed UX for new circular services.
Library of Things
I led design and scaling of a borrowing platform built around social and environmental impact, expanding from one site to ten across London and the UK.
Co-Founder, Six:Thirty
Jul 2013 – May 2018
Co-founded a design studio, leading all stages of product development from research to production. Ran projects examining contemporary technology showcased in exhibitions and installations at the V&A and London Design Festival, and in workshops and talks across Europe and the US.
Earlier career
Studio Output, 4Creative (Channel 4), Base Design Barcelona, and freelance design work.
Education
Goldsmiths College, University of London
BA (Hons) Design
Get in touch
contact@jamescuddy.co.uk