Sebastian Lipka has a decade of experience in UX, product and service design leading impactful work in complex, regulated industries—bridging process, systems, and people through strategic design and writing.

Sebastian Lipka has a decade of experience in UX, product and service design leading impactful work in complex, regulated industries—bridging process, systems, and people through strategic design and writing.

Sebastian Lipka has a decade of experience in UX, product and service design leading impactful work in complex, regulated industries—bridging process, systems, and people through strategic design and writing.

Service Portal

Redesigning legal workflow tools to boost fee earner efficiency and reduce operational overhead

Redesigning legal workflow tools to boost fee earner efficiency and reduce operational overhead

Redesigning wealth onboarding to boost advisor efficiency and client satisfaction

Redesigning wealth onboarding to boost advisor efficiency and client satisfaction

Designing an innovation platform to accelerate enterprise delivery and time to market

Beat the Street

Gamifying an NHS-sponsored health activation to increase participation and long-term engagement

Worked with

Bitwarden, BNP Paribas, Coca-Cola, DLA Piper, Google, Intelligent Health, Shell, Siemens, Westfield, and others.

Impact

Design is a business accelerator when led with intent, systems thinking, and cross-functional trust.

I’ve delivered measurable results by leading UX initiatives that drive revenue, scale team practice, and improve product clarity across B2B, B2C, and regulated environments. Below are outcomes I’m most proud of, shaped by product-aligned design leadership and high-trust collaboration.

Business value

Revenue influenced through UX-led initiatives

£75M

Led high-impact design across conversion, onboarding, and retention. Contributing to measurable commercial impact in both product- and service-led organisations.

Digital products & features launched

30+

End-to-end involvement: from research and strategy to delivery, iteration, and adoption tracking.

Design scale

Screens designed, reviewed, or systemised

1500+

Delivered 0→1 products and redesigned complex journeys across industries, with a strong lens on usability, consistency, and behavioural clarity.

Research sessions conducted or led

200+

Combined user interviews, task-based testing, and insight synthesis to steer design direction and product-market fit.

Teams

Product teams collaborated with

Product teams collab-orated with

50+

Worked closely with engineering, legal, data science, marketing, and content teams to align intent, reduce friction, and ship faster.

Designers mentored into senior roles

10

Actively coached designers on craft, portfolio storytelling, and growth. Helping them navigate toward senior IC or leadership positions.

Process

Design leadership grounded in systems thinking, delivery discipline, and outcome-driven collaboration

Great design outcomes don’t happen by accident. I lead product-aligned design processes that connect research, systems, and delivery. My role spans early alignment through to launch-readiness, enabling teams to move faster, make better decisions, and ship work that delivers measurable results.

Workshop in action

Collaborative session with fee earners and legal ops to uncover journey gaps, role conflicts, and system inefficiencies.

Defined key blockers in matter initiation and task routing

Aligned stakeholders around a restructured service pattern

Informed the redesign of a unified workflow system for improved efficiency and adoption

System journey mapping

Mapped full lifecycle across app, web, and community touchpoints to identify onboarding friction and retention drop-off points.

Used to simplify user onboarding and trigger-based activation

Aligned comms, design, and behaviour change strategy

Improved clarity of user incentives and reduced time-to-engagement across entry points

DesignOps & delivery tracking

Built and maintained UX delivery tracking across multi-stream work, ensuring design maturity across scope, velocity, and consistency.

Managed dependencies between product, compliance, and content

Standardised milestones across research, concept, handoff, QA

Enabled consistent UX quality across complex and regulated initiatives

Writing

I write to distill the invisible work of UX leadership; from scaling systems to influencing roadmaps and mentoring teams. These pieces offer actionable insights for senior ICs, design leaders, and cross-functional partners navigating complex, real-world product challenges.

Copyright © 2025

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