Product designer and design engineer in Melbourne, Australia. I design products and ship the code. Graduate of the Swinburne University Design program.
Send an email → josh@studioprisoner.com
Connect with me on LinkedIn → @joshuai
A fantasy basketball draft for eight mates in a lounge room: the board on the TV, every pick from a phone, a soft clock with a buzzer, and a 90s arcade look. Planned and built in one day, used live the next. Real numbers from the night.
A personal live music diary. Whether you're a casual concert-goer or a dedicated live music enthusiast, Gigz helps you preserve and celebrate your live music experiences.
Currently in beta. Get data-driven insights and actionable recommendations that were once only available to enterprise companies. Transform your small business website with AI-powered analysis.
Rethinking the global navigation, mini-cart and checkout for Penfolds.com. Research with their analytics, two personas, and a set of product decisions, including removing forced account creation at checkout. A Swinburne capstone with Treasury Wine Estates.
Geospatial mapping capabilities revolutionise data visualisation for health and social care planners and professionals.
In Asia Advantage provides Sourcing & Supply Management Solutions In China. I worked with the director Ross Matthews in designing a responsive design in line with their vision.
“Josh showcased impressive technical skills in creating a user-friendly interface. Their ability to create graphic interpretations of our navigation tool's layers was commendable.”
Professor Luis Salvador-Carulla
Deputy Director • Health Research Institute
Product designer and design engineer in Melbourne. I work end to end: research, interface, and the code that ships it. Most recently Gigz, an iOS concert journal on the App Store that I built and run solo across five surfaces: the app, the backend, the data pipeline, the admin, and the site. Alongside it, ConvertIQ, a conversion analysis platform for small businesses, currently in beta.
Eight years consulting on digital transformations across telecommunications, gaming and government came first. That work taught me what design usually learns late: the best solution still fails if nobody adopts it.
transforming ways of working and Zero Trust cyber frameworks.
