Staff Product Designer

Complex systems made easier to trust.

I turn dense fintech, Bitcoin, Web3, AI, and infrastructure products into experiences people can understand, navigate, and use with confidence.

Open to remote product design roles hiring in Canada

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Selected Work

AIOZ Network

Principal Product Designer
2023 – 2025

Led the design transformation from 2 disconnected products to a unified ecosystem of 8.

AIOZ is a Web3 network for decentralized AI, storage, and streaming. When I joined, it had two disconnected products and no shared design system. By the time I left, I’d led a three-person design team as we expanded the platform to eight products and built the reusable patterns and semantic color system that unified them. During that same period, the company’s market cap grew more than 100×.

2 → 8 products 3 designers led Company context: $13M → $1.38B
AIOZ dTransfer
AIOZ AI
AIOZ Stream
AIOZ Wallet
AIOZ Storage
Shared design system

Strike

Senior Product Designer
2021 – 2023

Redesigned a global payments app across 450+ screens.

Strike is a US-based global Bitcoin payments and money movement app, live in 100+ countries with 1.5M+ users. I led 3 to 5 designers through the mobile rebrand and redesign across 450+ screens and 80+ flows. I also led onboarding, KYC, and support, and co-owned the iOS and Android design system.

450+ screens 80+ flows 100+ countries 1.5M+ users
Strike app home screen
Strike payments
Strike send flow
Strike receive flow
Read the Strike case study

Fountain

Design Lead
2023 – 2024 (Contract)

Full product rebuild in under five months.

Fountain is a Bitcoin-powered podcast app for listening, earning, and supporting creators. I led the redesign with a junior designer and two CEOs, rebuilt the design system, and helped ship a cleaner listening, payments, and social experience in under five months.

Fountain app redesign
Fountain podcast player
Fountain social feed
Fountain listening experience

KOHO

Design Lead
2015 – 2018

First hire. Built the product foundation from zero.

KOHO is one of Canada’s top-rated spending and savings apps, with 2M+ users. I joined as the first hire, helped build the product from scratch, and set the early design direction. During my time there, Apple featured the app twice, including New Apps We Love and the App Store front page. KOHO is now valued above $800M.

First hire Featured twice by Apple $800M+ valuation
KOHO savings experience screen
KOHO savings goal details screen
KOHO savings plan setup screen

Product taste and execution, same person.

I’m useful where the product is complex, the system matters, and the team needs someone who can find the shape of the problem, design the experience, and help turn ambiguity into something buildable.

Current work

AI-native design studio

Nakamoto Design Co.

Nakamoto is my AI-native design studio. I designed and direct a multi-agent system that finds local businesses without websites, researches them, pulls real signals from Instagram and reviews, writes the positioning, and ships polished live demos. After 230+ sites, the work compounds: every prompt, review, and correction improves the next build.
Kid Sister Ice Cream live site preview
Working Culture live site preview
33 Acres Brewing live site preview
Kreative Ink live site preview

Recent demo sites built by the studio

OpenClaw · Agent calibration

Clawprint

Clawprint is a Deep Self assessment and OpenClaw calibration kit. It surfaces how you think, what drives you, and when your agent should push or listen, then imprints that profile as behavior rules so the agent works with your personality instead of around it.
Clawprint site preview

Design-to-code · Chrome extension

LoopIn

Design-to-code bridge for Claude Code. Click any UI element, and LoopIn captures the DOM, computed styles, and a screenshot, then sends the exact context to the agent. Less guessing. Better fixes.
LoopIn site preview

Open Source · npm

Mix ID

Tracklist generator for DJ mixes. Paste a Mixcloud, SoundCloud, or YouTube URL and get timestamped IDs. It started as a selfish radio-show tool, then turned into an npm package.
Mix ID site preview
About

I studied microbiology before design, and that instinct still runs through the work: look one layer deeper, understand the system, then change the right part. Outside product, I host a radio show and make craft vinegar. Different mediums, same impulse: taste, experimentation, and making useful things by hand.

I’m most useful on products where people need to understand a complex system before they can trust it: fintech, AI, Web3, agent workflows, and design systems.

Education

BSc Microbiology + BA Interaction Design

Based

Victoria, BC, Canada

Focus

AI product design, agent UX, design systems, 0-to-1

Links

LinkedIn · GitHub · scott@nakamotodesign.co

Let’s collaborate.

If you’re building fintech, AI, agent workflows, or infrastructure where people need to understand the system before they can trust it, that’s the work I want. I can help set direction, design the experience, and turn ambiguity into something elegant.

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