# Alex Lind

> Product designer working between design systems and code

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- Location: Stockholm, Sweden · Hybrid
- Availability: Open to offers
- Total experience: 10 yrs 4 mo
- Top skills (by evidence): Design systems, Design tokens, Storybook, React, Prototyping, Usability testing, Onboarding, Accessibility, Visual design, Brand identity, Typography, Stakeholder management

## About

I design products that stay coherent as they grow. Most of my work sits where design systems meet engineering: tokens, components, and the tooling that keeps teams shipping the same UI. I prototype in code, write a lot, and care about the boring details that make interfaces feel calm.

## Experience

- **Senior Product Designer**, Northwind (demo) (Mar 2022 – present, 4 yrs 9 mo): Own the design system and its adoption across four product teams. Pair with engineering on tokens, component APIs and Storybook docs.
- **Product Designer**, Fjord Bank (demo) (Jan 2019 – Feb 2022, 3 yrs 2 mo): Designed onboarding and account flows for the mobile bank. Ran usability testing and worked closely with compliance.
- **Designer**, Studio Nord (demo) (Aug 2016 – Dec 2018, 2 yrs 5 mo): Brand identities and marketing sites for Nordic startups.

## Projects

### [Design system uplift](https://made.show/alex/design-system-uplift)
Northwind (demo) · 2024 · Led it
- problem: Four product teams shipped the same patterns four different ways. The library existed, but it lagged behind production and teams had stopped checking it. Every new feature added one-off styles.
- myPart: I led the uplift: audited all product surfaces, defined the token architecture, and co-designed component APIs with two engineers. I owned the adoption plan and the docs.
- approach: We started from production, not Figma: catalogued what teams actually shipped, collapsed it into 42 components, and made Storybook the source of truth. Tokens were generated for both Figma and code. We migrated the highest-traffic screens first so the benefit was visible early.
- outcome: Adoption became measurable and kept rising. Design reviews shifted from pixel debates to product questions, and new features shipped faster because the building blocks were already there.
- metric: 41% increase in component adoption
- metric: 42 components in the core library
- metric: -30% time from design to merged PR

### [Onboarding rework](https://made.show/alex/onboarding-rework)
Fjord Bank (demo) · 2021 · Led it
- problem: Half of new customers stalled during identity verification. Support tickets spiked in the first week and the flow was designed around internal systems, not people.
- myPart: I owned the end-to-end flow design, ran two rounds of usability testing, and negotiated the compliance requirements that shaped each step.
- approach: We mapped every step to the regulation that required it, removed what wasn't required, and reordered the rest so people saw progress early. I prototyped in code to test real timing on devices.
- outcome: Activation went up and first-week support contacts dropped. The patterns became the base for the bank's account-opening flows.
- metric: 18% increase in activation
- metric: -35% first-week support tickets

### [Tokens pipeline](https://made.show/alex/tokens-pipeline)
Northwind (demo) · 2023 · Did it solo
- problem: Design tokens were copied by hand between Figma and code, so they drifted within weeks.
- myPart: I designed and built the pipeline myself in TypeScript, then handed it over to the platform team.
- approach: A small build step reads Figma variables, validates naming, and emits CSS custom properties and a typed TypeScript map. It runs in CI and fails the build on drift.
- outcome: Zero manual token copying since launch. Theme changes now take minutes instead of a sprint.
- metric: 0 manual token edits since launch

### [Brand identities for Nordic startups](https://made.show/alex/nord-brand-identities)
Studio Nord (demo) · 2018 · Led it
- problem: Early-stage founders needed identities that looked considered on day one but wouldn't break when a marketing team arrived with templates and deadlines.
- myPart: I led identity design for five clients: strategy workshops, wordmarks, colour and type systems, and the guidelines handed over at the end.
- approach: Every identity started as a small system rather than a logo: a type pairing, a restrained palette and a grid that templates could inherit. Print and packaging tested the system before digital.
- outcome: All five brands are still in use years later, largely unchanged. Two clients hired in-house designers who extended the systems without a redesign.
- metric: 5 identity systems shipped
- metric: 0 redesigns since launch

## Education

- Bachelor's, Visual Communication — Beckmans College of Design
- Vocational, Digital Experience Design — Hyper Island
- Course, Cognitive Science — Stockholm University
- Certificate, Accessibility: How to Design for All — Interaction Design Foundation