Matt Gidaszewski

Founding Product Designer | 0–1 Products, AI-Native Workflows & Visual Craft

PROFILE

Founding and zero-to-one Product Designer with 9 years of experience turning early-stage ideas into coherent, testable and buildable digital products across healthcare, education and B2B software. Works from discovery and proposition through product direction, brand, UX/UI, prototyping and launch, then improves the first live version through feedback and iteration. Combines strategic breadth with hands-on visual craft and AI-assisted delivery to help teams reduce uncertainty and move from concept to release.

CORE EXPERTISE

Zero-to-One Product Design MVP Definition & Delivery Product Discovery Product Direction Design Thinking Workshop Facilitation UX/UI Rapid Prototyping Brand Foundations Visual Identity Product Storytelling Design Systems AI-assisted Workflows Information Architecture User Journeys User Flows Product Research

EXPERIENCE

Independent Product Design Consultant | Zero-to-One & MVP

June 2026 – Present

EducationOS | Multi-tenant education SaaS

  • Taking an education platform from working single-tenant product to a market-ready multi-tenant SaaS for educators and small education businesses.
  • Owning product direction and end-to-end UX across super-admin, tenant, educator and learner experiences, including onboarding, permissions, branding.
  • Defined the migration and launch path while preserving existing users, content and learning data.
  • Working hands-on with AI-assisted engineering using Codex, Lovable, Supabase and GitHub to turn product decisions into functioning software, database architecture and application logic.

Varico / Tangramo | B2B accounting software

  • Facilitated Design Thinking workshops to uncover the opportunity, align stakeholders and define the Tangramo proposition.
  • Translated the proposition into end-to-end UX/UI using IBM Carbon, producing scalable, developer-ready interfaces across light and dark modes.
  • Extended the product into visual identity, tone of voice, product narrative and launch communication.

Blue Marble Structures | Pitch creation

  • Turned complex habitat technology into a clear narrative and pitch for a NASA proposal, directing 3D animation, presentation design and visual assets.

Medics.Academy (Vopulus Ltd), London

Head of Design

January 2023 – June 2026

Led a multidisciplinary design team of six while remaining hands-on, turning ambiguous healthcare and medical-education opportunities into defined products, prototypes and launched experiences.

  • Led new healthcare and medical-education initiatives from discovery, workshops and concept definition through product direction, UX/UI, prototyping, stakeholder narrative and implementation.
  • Designed complex NHS-facing dashboards and internal enterprise platforms, improving early products around real healthcare workflows.
  • Owned product and design direction across partnerships with healthcare organisations, founders and external clients.
  • Established department-wide OKRs and delivery processes and managed recruitment, mentoring and professional development.
  • Worked closely with engineering, clinical and business stakeholders to turn ambiguous requirements into clear propositions and usable digital products.

Lead Designer

January 2019 – December 2022

Took multiple products from early concept and proposition to launch, while building the design foundations Medics.Academy needed to scale.

  • Reframed and redesigned the Medics.Academy learning platform, contributing to a 175% increase in user registrations.
  • Took the Medics.Academy secure messaging application from concept and product definition through UX/UI, prototyping and launch.
  • Created the organisation's first scalable design system, connecting product, brand and marketing across a growing portfolio.
  • Shaped the proposition, product experience and launch communication for F|Docs, which onboarded 56% of UK Foundation Doctors in its first year.
  • Led the creation of Nucleus from product concept and narrative through UX/UI and launch; developed with Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and later referenced in the UK's Genome UK strategy.
  • Reframed and redesigned SMART Science Education's patented learning platform, working directly with founders and senior stakeholders.

UI/UX Designer

July 2017 – January 2019

Joined Medics.Academy at an early growth stage and helped turn initial ideas into the organisation's first digital products, visual identity and product narrative.

  • Designed the company's first investor pitch, contributing to a successful funding round.
  • Established the original visual identity, product narrative and creative direction.
  • Delivered user journeys, prototypes and production-ready UI, working directly with the CEO, Head of Product and engineering team.
  • Collaborated with product, engineering and healthcare stakeholders to turn early ideas into testable, deliverable experiences.

University of Westminster, London

Design Lecturer | January 2017 – Present
  • Taught across Graphic Design, Visual Communication, Animation and Illustration, using prototyping and contemporary digital practice within undergraduate programmes.
  • Designed lecture programmes, assessments and one-to-one teaching for hundreds of students annually.

EARLIER SELECTED WORK

TOOLS & METHODS

EDUCATION

LANGUAGES

English (Near-native fluency) Brazilian Portuguese (Near-native fluency) Polish (Native)

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