How I Work

Designing in the messy middle between user needs,
business constraints and product delivery.

I’m Samuel Adeloye, a London-based Senior Product Designer working across complex products, service journeys and design systems.

My work often sits where user needs, business constraints, legacy systems, content, data and delivery pressure all meet. I help teams make sense of that complexity, then turn it into clearer journeys, better-structured interfaces and more confident product decisions.

I’ve worked across startups, agencies, media, education, energy and enterprise environments. That range has shaped a design practice that is flexible, but grounded. I’m comfortable moving between strategic questions and detailed interaction decisions, from understanding why a journey is not working to shaping the flows, patterns and interface details that make it easier to use.

A lot of my recent work has focused on clarity at scale. At LCCC, I’ve led product design across Web Presence, Zero and Settlements, helping strengthen discovery, information architecture, design-system governance and UX measurement across a maturing product environment. Before that, at Times Higher Education, I redesigned complex data-collection workflows used by universities and internal teams, reducing task duration by 52% across key tasks.

What anchors my approach is the idea that good design is a form of translation. It turns research, constraints and possibilities into something people can understand, trust and use. Sometimes that means simplifying a dense workflow. Sometimes it means helping a team align around the right problem. Sometimes it means creating the system, language or evidence needed to make better decisions over time.

I’m especially interested in how product design works inside complex organisations: how teams mature their design practice, how measurement connects design to business outcomes, how design systems scale across products, and how AI can support responsible, evidence-led ways of working without weakening trust, accessibility or craft.

Available for senior product design, UX strategy and selected freelance or contract opportunities.