Rachel Walker
Senior product designer

I focus on ethical design and creating change.

With a background in graphic design, healthcare and education, I focus on ethical design and creating change.



I’m a problem solver, who thrives in ambiguity and innovative thinking.

I specialise in behaviour design and products that prioritise time well spent over aimless scrolling.

About

Senior Product Designer and Design Adviser focused on ethical design and creating change.

I've worked with incubating pre seed startups to scale-ups and agencies. I've run design at a team and company level, worked on numerous 0-1 projects, launched products into international markets, and implemented rebrands. I specialise in behaviour design and products that prioritise time well spent over aimless scrolling.

MyTutor tutor app is an example of this philosophy. Previously tutors seeking work were urgently refreshing their desktop opportunity screens in the hope quickly nabbing a work opportunity. Now tutors that want work and most importantly are available to take it, are notified on the go and at speed.

For the majority of my time at Second Nature I led their design output. It was a privilege to drastically improve member’s lives; providing them with the tools to make lifestyle changes, avoid preventable lifestyle diseases and ease the symptoms of life stages such as menopause.

In my spare time, I teach and mentor a diverse range of people. From school age children learning empathy and design thinking, to advising entrepreneurs on their MVPs.

It is through all this work that I’ve witnessed how much of an opportunity we as designers have to create change, consider the ethics of our work and have a positive impact on the world.

Experience

MyTutor

Senior Product Designer (Learners)

January 2024 – present

Senior Product Designer (Tutors)

June 2023 – January 2024

Product designer (Tutors)

January 2022 – June 2023

Zinc VC

Product design fellow

October 2022 – present

Freelance

Product designer

October 2021 – January 2022

Second Nature (formally OurPath)

Product Designer

October 2018 – December 2021

Design Club

Mentor

November 2017 – August 2022

Wordbird

Graphic Designer

August 2016 – October 2018

Expertise

End-to-end product design

Interface design

User experience design

Product strategy

Behaviour design

User research

Other projects

Meetup: Amplifying the human experience through new technologies

Co-organiser

2024

MyTutor AI hackathon

Co-organiser

2023 & 2024

Meetup: Designing for Gen-Z

Panelist

2023

Happiness hack day

Product designer

2019

Wayfindr Hackathon

Product designer

2017

One health tech collaboration

Product designer

2017

Interests

Keen surfer
Dancing the night away
Dancing the night away
Rachel's cat SashaRachel's cat SashaRachel's cat Sasha
Favourite food - cocao and hazelnut butter!
Working from a beach bar in Hvar
Most formative design book for Rachel. Don't make me think
CrossFit, weightlifting, powerliftingCrossFit, weightlifting, powerlifting
Reading from kindle
Hike in La Fortuna, Costa Rica
Reading from kindleHiking up a volcano in Fuerterventura
Reading from kindleCroissant cooking school in Paris
Reading from kindleA London skyline