Product & visual designer — Scotland, UK
Design people can’t ignore, made with care.
I’m Milan — trained first in graphic design, now working across UI, UX and product. Finishing an MSc in Scotland, looking for my next role. This site is closer to a working notebook than a highlight reel: real projects, the decisions behind them, and what I’d do differently now.
Selected work
3 case studiesSWORP
Property management software, Czech Republic. Led a website relaunch in a week and a half while the senior designer was away.
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Employee monitoring & productivity product. Where I learned that shipping beats polishing — and built a payroll system I knew nothing about.
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A brand redesign — the clearest evidence of the typography and branding background everything else is built on.
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Design is care, not decoration
Something can be technically designed, or someone can actually care about it. Visitors can tell the difference.
Pretty isn’t enough
A Figma file isn’t proof anything works. The product still has to.
Clarity over cleverness
People shouldn’t have to figure out how an interface works. That’s a failure, not a puzzle.
Process serves the outcome
Not the other way round. I use the process that gets a project somewhere better — not the one that looks correct on a slide.
“Good design is about making things look good.”
Now: making something pretty isn’t enough.
“Finish everything before you show it.”
Now: ship, learn, improve.
Visual experiments
typography & brandingNot everything here is a product problem. Some of it is just how I think visually when no one’s briefing me — typography studies in the lineage of Vignelli and Weingart, branding, and posters.
About
I didn’t grow up certain I’d be a designer — I considered IT first, and didn’t feel especially strong at the coding side. Design found me through a multimedia subject at university, and I went looking for freelance work myself rather than waiting for a break.
I moved to Scotland in 2025 for an MSc, wanting a different environment to grow a design career in. I’m still figuring out how to break into the UK industry properly — that part isn’t finished yet, and I’d rather say so than pretend otherwise.
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