Product designer / systems thinker

Rowan Vale

I turn complicated digital products into calm, useful tools people can understand on the first try.

Based in Singapore / open to remoteFocus product systems, service designStart a conversation

01 / Profile

Make the complex feel considered.

I am a product designer with eight years of experience shaping workflows, interfaces and design systems for teams working in high-stakes environments. My best work sits between sharp product thinking and patient collaboration.

02 / Selected work

A few useful currents.

01 / Platform

Northstar Ops

Reframed a fragmented operations suite into a shared workspace, reducing handoff ambiguity across three teams.

Research · UX · Systems

02 / Service

Carepath

Designed a clearer intake journey for a community health service, giving staff a better view of the person behind the case.

Service design · Prototyping

03 / Product

Field Notes

Built the foundation for a mobile reporting tool used by distributed climate researchers in low-connectivity settings.

Product strategy · UI

03 / Experience

Where I have done the work.

2021 — Present

Lead Product Designer

Common Thread Studio

  • Set product direction with founders and engineering leads across workflow and data products.
  • Introduced a shared component language that made quality easier to maintain as the team grew.
  • Mentored four designers through critique, research planning and delivery.
2017 — 2021

Product Designer

Stillwater Digital

  • Led discovery and interaction design for B2B tools used by operations and service teams.
  • Translated field research into prototypes that helped teams make better product decisions earlier.
  • Partnered with developers to keep the final experience as thoughtful as the first sketch.

04 / Capabilities

How I contribute.

Think

Product framing, service blueprints, journey mapping, qualitative research, information architecture.

Make

Interaction design, prototyping, visual systems, content structure, accessible interface design.

Work with

Figma, FigJam, Notion, Linear, Webflow, HTML and CSS. Always learning the next useful tool.

05 / Education

The foundations.

BA, Communication Design

LASALLE College of the Arts

2013 — 2017

06 / Contact

Let’s make the next thing clearer.

If the role needs someone who can zoom out, get specific and bring a team along, I would like to hear about it.

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