Rodney Blackney
Senior Product Designer
Currently building AI-powered products for logistics and telecommunications at Fluent Cargo. Solving complex problems through simple, intuitive design.
Over a decade designing shipped products across logistics, telecoms and creative marketplaces
Senior Product Designer
End to end design for complex digital products, from early research through to shipped features.
Designed shipment tracking experience across 987+ active shipments
Led end to end design of Ask Fluent, an AI query tool handling 565+ queries in 30 days
First designer on the product, working directly with founders
Shipped features from research through to live product
Product Designer (UX/UI)
Designed customer-facing NBN experiences to help users troubleshoot issues, understand outages and manage their services, reducing support reliance and improving clarity across key journeys.
Redesigned onboarding, BYOM flow
Self service troubleshooter, 98% completion rate, 704 users day one
Outage visibility tool, 66.4% reduction in support calls
Contributed to shared design system
Product Design Lead (UX/UI)
Designed identity and compliance workflows for a fintech platform, simplifying complex regulated experiences for end users.
Contributed to onboarding and identity verification flows
Improved clarity across complex compliance and KYC interactions
Worked with product and engineering to refine user journeys
Designed interfaces for data-heavy and regulated workflows
Senior Designer (UX/UI)
Led product design for Envato Studio, a two-sided marketplace connecting customers with freelance creatives, contributing to over $1M in creator payouts and improving how services are discovered, purchased and delivered.
First designer at Envato, working directly with the CEO
Led Envato Studio from launch, $1M in creator payouts
Email campaigns to 900K+ recipients, 26% open rates
End to end marketplace workflows across ThemeForest
Testimonials
What people say about working with me
"Rod is a very talented designer, he makes the average look beautiful and the boring look inspired. He speaks with pictures and seeks feedback which he takes on board simply and without fuss."
"Every design task he takes on just looks awesome. He was also a really valuable member of my team at Envato, bringing a great sense of humor along with his many years of experience on the product."
"Rod was fantastic to work with. He has an extremely creative and unique design approach which was consistently impressive. He's also fantastic to work with, bringing a fun energy to the team."
