Portfolio

James Ciclitira

Senior Product Designer

Senior Product Designer with 10+ years building digital products people actually use — across mobility, health, climate fintech, and e-commerce. I work end-to-end: research, strategy, and interface design. Currently in Berlin, open to the right role.

Experience
Enter — baupal GmbH Jul 2024 – Jan 2026
Senior Product Designer

Led product design for a Berlin energy consultancy helping homeowners retrofit buildings with sustainable solutions. Owned the full customer journey — audit through booking.

  • Designed a complex multi-step retrofit journey from initial energy audit to contractor booking
  • Built and maintained the design system that aligned the whole team
  • Regular research with homeowners and consultants to keep design grounded in real needs
Cooler Future Jul 2021 – Jan 2023
Lead Product Designer

Founding designer at a climate fintech making sustainable investing accessible from €20. Led all product design from zero — research, app, and website.

  • Led user interviews, diary studies, and card sorting across two distinct user segments
  • Designed the full onboarding including German depot account setup with KYC
  • Solved impact visualisation — iterating until users could actually understand and trust it
Something Creative Jan 2021 – Jul 2021
Product Designer

Berlin digital agency. Delivered UX research and interface design across multiple client engagements from initial problem to polished product.

Bosch — Coup Mobility Mar 2019 – Oct 2020
Product Designer

Bosch-owned e-moped service, 5,000 scooters across Berlin, Paris, Madrid. Owned ride UX and all operational tooling for dispatchers and field workers.

  • Designed a cancellation popup that became a real-time fleet reporting system — reducing downtime without affecting riders
  • Built the dispatcher dashboard and field worker app across three markets
Vivy Oct 2017 – Mar 2019
Product Designer

Allianz-backed digital health platform. Joined as a founding designer and helped build the culture, research practice, and core product from scratch.

  • Designed document request, file sharing, and expectation management flows
  • Ran a 4-day design sprint in Munich with Allianz to define invoice management
Freelance 2016 – 2017
Product & Web Designer

Consultant for YunoJuno, Quidco, and Suggestv — research, interface design, and front-end development across products with 10M+ combined users.

CrowdScores Sep 2015 – Jan 2017
Product Designer

Sole designer on a live sports app covering 1,300+ weekly matches on iOS and Android. Owned everything from UX to icons to advertising.

  • Rebuilt navigation around search — cut time-to-match from 5+ taps to under 2
Education
Product Design · BA (Hons) 2:1
Design Skills
  • User Research
  • User Interviews
  • Diary Studies
  • Card Sorting
  • Usability Testing
  • Storyboarding
  • Interaction Design
  • Wireframing
  • Prototyping
  • Design Systems
  • Typography
  • Accessibility
Industries
  • Climate / Green Tech
  • Digital Health
  • Mobility
  • Fintech
  • B2B SaaS
  • Consumer
Languages
  • English — Native
  • German — B2
Tools
Figma
Sketch
Miro
Maze
Illustrator
Ps
Photoshop
InVision
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Principal
Looking for
  • Senior Product Designer
  • Lead Product Designer
  • Berlin · Remote-friendly
  • Full-time