Hello! I’m
Chris Wright.
I design complex SaaS products across B2B and B2C environments — with a focus on design systems, multi-platform portals and operational tools.
Over the last eight years, I’ve led design inside cross-functional teams at Ohme, Marcura, Better, Sea, and Travelex, bringing structure and clarity to products with deep domain logic and real operational complexity.
I’m particularly interested in design systems as infrastructure, AI-enhanced design workflows, and the kind of research that shapes product direction — not just validates it.
My Work
I have been fortunate enough to work for companies spanning start-ups, scale-ups and enterprise level organisations. I’m highly experienced in working from ideation to delivery, and have worked on both greenfield and legacy products.
Lead Product Designer
Rebrand and design system delivery under a 4-week compressed timeline — as the sole design resource.
Lead UX Designer
End-to-end design of flagship features across two maritime SaaS products, replacing fragmented workflows.
Lead Product Designer
Greenfield start-up inside Travelex — research-led insight that shifted an entire product’s positioning.
Product Designer
Owned design for a revenue-generating mortgage application feature in a regulated PropTech environment.
UX Designer
Built the design function from scratch, introducing user research and redesigning onboarding for a B2B to B2C transition.
References
Matt Carter - Senior Product Manager
Chris and I both worked at Trussle as the business rebranded to Better.co.uk. Chris was an invaluable partner as – both relatively new to the business at the same time – we needed to quickly deliver on work for now, next, and build a roadmap for ‘later’.
Chris is very easy to build a strong relationship with – both with myself as a Product Manager but also with the engineering team and senior stakeholders across the business, and very quickly established himself as a subject matter expert on all things Design and UX. Delivering to often incredibly tight timescales, Chris was hands on with the team, driving intent, creating designs, and providing assets at incredible pace without any impact on quality.
Two projects really stand out in our time together. Firstly we were tasked with assessing the current User Testing capabilities and recommending next steps. Chris was instrumental in identifying partners here, driving demonstrations and asking the key questions that led to a significant investment by the business as Chris was able to articulate the benefit and application of the tooling to key decision makers. This set the business up with the capability to drive action based on insight.
Secondly,the business made the decision to entirely rebrand the customer facing proposition, and we were given incredibly tight timelines of delivery. Chris as the Design Lead on this project – and for a long period of time the sole resource in this space – turned around a new design system in an incredibly short period of time through working with US based colleagues, and researching best practice. The result was a coherent and elegant design system and new process without which we wouldn’t have been able to turn around the rebrand in the timescales given.
I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend Chris to anyone looking for an expert in his field, and hope our professional paths cross again in the future.
Eileen Soh - Product Lead
Chris and I worked closely for 2 years. He was the lead designer on a product which was core for the company.
Chris was very proactive in ensuring the product moved forward, continuously innovate. He was active in discovery and research and was able to demonstrate this not just on the product he worked on but also contributing to the wider design practice.
Chris tackles all approaches with a passion for solving problems and always with users in mind. I’d gladly work with Chris again and would highly recommend him.
James Bryce - CEO
Just to share the fantastic contribution that Chris has made to gweek. He has a fantastic eye for design. I saw some of his early work before he joined gweek, and thought, wow that is different. On the inside, he’s been responsible for initiating users testing, redesign of the app and its new features, and our website.
Chris understands how to take a brief and implement on a strict timeline. He is organised, methodical and he delivers. You’re a real real pleasure to work with. Thanks for everything Chris!