I'm Jack, a design leader and systems thinker helping teams turn complex problems into clear, scalable products and experiences.

Jack Anglesea
/about me

Based in Manchester, I lead UX and Design at Dootrix, working across native mobile, web, enterprise software and AI-enabled products. My role spans product strategy, design systems, accessibility and hands-on delivery.

Over the last nine years, I've helped startups, product teams and established organisations turn complex problems into clear, useful products. I'm often brought into work where teams need clarity, whether that means reframing the brief, improving a difficult journey, aligning stakeholders or creating systems that help a product scale.

I work closely with engineers, product leads, delivery teams and senior stakeholders to connect user needs with business outcomes. My work moves between strategy and detail, from discovery and journey mapping through to interaction design, prototyping, design systems and delivery support.

I enjoy solving messy problems with thoughtful people. Whether that's shaping a product, exploring where AI can genuinely improve how a team works or debating football over coffee, curiosity tends to be the common thread.

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/how I work

Reduce ambiguity

Align teams around the problem, user need, business goal, and definition of success before moving into solutions.

Balance users and business

Make design decisions that support user goals while contributing to adoption, conversion, retention, efficiency, or growth.

Turn insight into direction

Use research, audits, workshops, and data to identify friction and shape clear, practical next steps.

Partner through delivery

Work closely with product, engineering, and delivery teams to shape ideas early, test assumptions, and build with confidence.

Design with systems in mind

Create patterns, components, and standards that improve consistency, accessibility, and delivery quality across products.

Strategy and detail

Connect product thinking and journey mapping with detailed UX, interface design, prototyping, and design QA.

Improve how teams work

Create clear ways of working that help teams make better decisions and raise the quality of what they ship.

A big part of my work is raising standards through systems thinking. I build design systems, shared patterns and practical ways of working that help teams move with greater consistency, accessibility and confidence. For me, good systems are more than component libraries. They are shared decisions that reduce ambiguity, avoid repeated effort and create stronger foundations for products to scale.

I also care about developing people as much as products. At Dootrix, I lead the design function, support designers through regular one-to-ones and critique, and mentor emerging talent. My approach to leadership is calm, practical and consistent: setting clear direction, creating space for better thinking and helping people strengthen both their decisions and the quality of what they ship.

/how I lead

Build design capability

Led the design function at Dootrix, supporting designers through structured 1:1s, objective setting, and active development.

Grow broader thinkers

Helped designers build the confidence to think beyond the immediate task, approach problems systematically, and connect their work to wider product and business goals.

Coach emerging talent

Mentored a design apprentice through a structured month-long placement, setting a clear project, regular coaching rhythm, and high standards for design thinking.

Create clear ways of working

Built and embedded a design wiki across Dootrix, establishing shared standards for Figma structure, project approach, critique, and development handover.

Raise the standard of critique

Maintained a regular design critique practice, helping the team present stronger rationale, challenge assumptions, and improve the quality of design decisions.

Hire with intent

Owned end-to-end design hiring at Dootrix, from job descriptions and design challenges through to portfolio reviews and interviews, shaping the team around what the business actually needed.

/beyond design

Outside of design, I'm usually running, spending time walking Ozzy looking for the next good coffee spot, or planning food around whatever part of Manchester I'm in. I'm a Manchester City season ticket holder and currently learning Spanish with mixed levels of consistency.

I'm always up for a conversation about design systems, AI tools, product quality, Manchester coffee spots, wrestling, or the case for Kevin De Bruyne as a service designer.