Hi, I'm Karl Friend

15+ years Senior Product Design Specialising in CX/UX/UI

I love connecting with customers and creating awesome solutions

I listen to your customer challenges
I understand your business objectives
I design awesome looking solutions
I manage it into reality or pass it on
Daily UI Design Challenge
100 Different artifacts created in 100 days
At the beginning of 2024, I embarked on a unique endeavor known as the "Daily UI Challenge." Over the span of 100 days, I committed to crafting 100 diverse design elements, spanning from app icons and landing pages to intricate analytics charts. Each challenge was imbued with real-life scenarios, pushing me beyond my comfort zone. I invite you to explore my work and share your thoughts!
UI Challenge
Senior Designer
In-progress
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Member Management Platform used by 700 customers & 1 million users
Reporting Dashboard
Built because of need at a local membership organisation, Friendly Manager now powers over 1 million users actively using the platform. My role as the Senior Product designer was to coordinate the build of this platform see how I created an app for members access their data from multiple data sources.
Senior Product Designer
Founder
UX Design
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Charity CRM & finance management software for Charities & Churches
Customer Onboarding
New Zealand's leading charity platform, powering over 650 organisations worldwide, needed a new login & customer onboarding process. After the success of the new onboarding and login Richard asked me to continue and re-design the entire platform. This is still happening today. See the progress here.
Senior Product Designer
Customer Journey
In-progress
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Infoodle Case Study - Main Image
NZ Government Cancer Research and Information center
Website Report/Redesign
Te Aho Cancer Control Agency is the national cancer research information organisation. I initially contracted to research their user base and investigate the "why" behind their website.  After discovering the why this lead to them hiring me to redesign their new website.
Senior Product Designer
Research
Website Redesign
Case Study Coming Soon
Process
Everything is design - it doesn’t just happen...  

Having a structured measured approach to design is key. We all want to get to the pretty pictures but to get to them we need to understand the problem before coming up with a solution that is going to work for your users. My approach ensures that we put the user first and understand the problem.

This is called design thinking and it prioritises the user's needs to ensure they get results.

Empathise
Listen
Understand
Challenge
Define
Goals
Objectives
Success
Ideate
Create
Test
Perfect
Deliver
Handover
Manage
Test
See the whole process
Richard Smith - Ajuke Smith - Infoodle Testimonial
Richard Smith - Ajuke Smith - Infoodle Testimonial
"Working with Karl has been an absolute pleasure, not only did he save me hours, his work was far superior to ours. We love our working relationship we have with Karl."
Richard Smith - CEO