Senior Product Designer
Fluent Cargo
2023 — Current
Designing tools that help logistics teams plan, track, and optimise global shipments across routes, pricing, emissions, and disruptions.
Led end-to-end design across routing, tracking, and schedules
Built data-heavy dashboards for operational decision-making
Defined navigation and structure as the product scaled
Worked directly with founders and engineers to ship features fast
Product Designer
Belong
2021 — 2023
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 to reduce friction (BYOM flow)
Shipped self-service troubleshooting and disconnection (98% completion)
Improved outage visibility and customer communication
Contributed to shared design systems across customer products
Senior Designer
Envato
2008 — 2020
Led product design for Envato Studio, a two-sided marketplace connecting customers with freelance creatives — contributing to over $10M in creator payouts and improving how services are discovered, purchased, and delivered.
Led design for Envato Studio, supporting $10M+ in creator payouts
Designed end-to-end workflows for a two-sided marketplace (buyers and sellers)
Improved service discovery, purchasing, and delivery experiences
Contributed to shared design systems across Envato products
Career highlights
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10+ years of across product, user interface, visual & product design
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Scaled Envato’s marketplace experience for millions of users.
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Shipped customer tools for Belong’s NBN — improving support flows
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Led product design for Envato Studio — reaching $10 M+ in payouts
"Rod’s been responsible for a huge volume of Envato's product and marketing design over more than a decade creating beautiful visual campaigns that helped generate millions for our community."
"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."
