Christian Harries

Senior Product Designer

Overthinking problems and pixels so users don't have to—11 years designing for trust in regulated markets

Based in London, UK 🇬🇧

Case Studies

Screenshot of the redesigned onboarding page.

Reducing anti-money laundering checks from 2 weeks to 2 days

Bottom-up project ↑

B2C + B2B

Compliance + Sales teams

“Wow we’re asking them for a lot, do we really need to ask them for this much?”

Ijeoma Uzowuru, Group Head FCC / Risk/ Compliance Operations

Reducing anti-money laundering checks from 2 weeks to 2 days

Bottom-up project ↑

B2C + B2B

Compliance + Sales teams

“Wow we’re asking them for a lot, do we really need to ask them for this much?”

Ijeoma Uzowuru, Group Head FCC / Risk/ Compliance Operations

Reducing anti-money laundering checks from 2 weeks to 2 days

Bottom-up project ↑

B2C + B2B

Compliance + Sales teams

“Wow we’re asking them for a lot, do we really need to ask them for this much?”

Ijeoma Uzowuru, Group Head FCC / Risk/ Compliance Operations

Screenshots of the design components made for the first version of the design system.

From pixel pushers to problem solvers, how a design system broke siloed teams

Bottom-up project ↑

DesignOps

Front-end + Product teams

2x faster

Having a design system enabled us to ship front-end code twice as fast

From pixel pushers to problem solvers, how a design system broke siloed teams

Bottom-up project ↑

DesignOps

Front-end + Product teams

2x faster

Having a design system enabled us to ship front-end code twice as fast

From pixel pushers to problem solvers, how a design system broke siloed teams

Bottom-up project ↑

DesignOps

Front-end + Product teams

2x faster

Having a design system enabled us to ship front-end code twice as fast

Screenshots of the final designs for mandatory two factor authentication.

Trust, Time, and Money—the Cost of Deprioritising Usability

Top-down project ↓

2-factor authentication

InfoSec + Compliance teams

B2C + B2B

People wanted security, but not if it made their life more difficult

Trust, Time, and Money—the Cost of Deprioritising Usability

Top-down project ↓

2-factor authentication

InfoSec + Compliance teams

B2C + B2B

People wanted security, but not if it made their life more difficult

Trust, Time, and Money—the Cost of Deprioritising Usability

Top-down project ↓

2-factor authentication

InfoSec + Compliance teams

B2C + B2B

People wanted security, but not if it made their life more difficult

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11 years broken down

2-8 min design articles

Casual design musings

Outside of design

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11 years broken down

2-8 min design articles

Casual design musings

Outside of design

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