Jordan Ellis

Product Designer

Introduction

Hi, I'm Jordan, a product designer based in Lisbon. I turn messy problems into calm, useful interfaces.

For the last eight years I've designed for marketplaces, health apps and developer tools, working closely with engineers from first sketch to launch.

Designing for trust

•Config Lisbon - 2025

The quiet interface

•UX Brighton - 2023

Small teams, big systems

•Design Matters - 2022

Figma, Framer, Principle

HTML, CSS, a little React

Dovetail, Maze

Plantly (plantly.app)

•A watering reminder app with 12k monthly users

Type Notes (typenotes.xyz)

•A weekly newsletter about typography

•Lead designer for the patient app, used by 1.2M people.

•Built the design system from scratch with two engineers.

•Redesigned onboarding, lifting activation by 34%.

•Ran weekly research sessions with small business owners.

•Designed seller tools for a marketplace of 40k independent shops.

•Introduced a shared component library across three product teams.

•Designed websites and brand identities for local startups.

•Ran the studio's first design internship programme.

BA (Hons) Graphic and Media Design, 2016. First Class.

•Honoree, Health app category, for the Harbor patient app.

•Site of the Day for the Northwind seller launch page.