Designer. Builder. Melbourne.
I'm a UX designer — but really, I just love problems. 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, but the honest version is: I'm a problem person. I love learning. I love throwing myself at a pile of different problems. And I love the specific, niche ones nobody else wants to touch. 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. That's where I'm best.
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.
Every time a client says "it's a pretty niche use case," I lean in. Fewer people have tried to solve it properly. That's where the work actually matters.
Design that goes over a wall into engineering and comes back broken is a waste of everyone's time. I work directly with the people building it and the people using it. That's it.
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
