Designer. Builder. Melbourne.
I'm a UX designer, but really, I just love solving challenges. Especially the specific, niche ones most people walk straight past. I dig in, learn the thing cold, and build the fix that actually fits. Not the generic one.
About
I'm a UX designer with 5+ years behind me, and the honest version is: I love solving challenges. I'm an Apple Developer Academy graduate, and I've shipped work for clients across Australia, Singapore, the US, and plenty of other international companies. I build from scratch. I fix what's broken. And I ship, which, if you've spent any time in tech, you know is the rare part.
Based in Melbourne. I work with founders, nonprofits, and scrappy little teams at the 0→1 stage, real problem, no product yet, everything to prove. Right now I'm going deep on AI and SaaS, because that's where the next pile of hard problems lives.
Every project is an excuse to learn something cold, a census dataset, a fashion supply chain, how a charity gala actually runs. I go deeper than the brief asks, because the boring details are where the real fix hides. Skip them and you just get a pretty thing that doesn't work.
I've led plenty of projects inside a creative agency, so I understand the business side too. How to make something profitable. How to keep it inside budget. How to ship without blowing the timeline. Pretty design that loses money isn't design. It's decoration.
I'm always trying the newest tools, the latest AI, whatever just dropped. Not for the novelty of it. Because pushing the limits is how you find the thing nobody's built yet.
Get in touch
If you have a problem worth solving and want someone who'll care about it as much as you do, I'm available.
rkurswell@pm.me
