I'm a product designer with 11 years of experience creating accessible, scalable products backed by data and driven by real user needs. Using AI-assisted design and development workflows, I move from research and prototyping through to building and shipping front-end experiences, collaborating across product, tech, and research to create work that's both thoughtful and measurable.
Outside of work, I refresh my creativity by baking (2x DD Bake Off champion), making pottery, and getting outdoors — whether it's snowboarding, cycling, or climbing.

Contact details
- ismaelbashagha@gmail.com
- Phone
- UK: +44 771 78 71796
Professional experience
RevaeJun 2026 – Present
Principal Product Designer · Jun 2026 – Present
Revae is a premium commerce platform for luxury beauty, rescuing discarded inventory and reintroducing it through a curated, elevated shopping experience. I'm taking it from zero to launch across brand, product design and front-end.
Leading design, brand and build, including:
- Brand Identity — Identity system across palette, type, mark and applications, adopted as Brand Identity V2.
- Launch Site — Designed and built the launch-list site at revae-beauty.com as a plain static build, ahead of the 2026 launch.
HousebetsAug 2025 – Present
Founding Head of Design · Aug 2025 – Present
Joined Housebets, a crypto casino and sportsbook, as the founding designer to build the design function and lead the rebuild of the entire customer-facing platform across desktop and mobile.
Led the design and delivery of the product rebuild from audit through to production, including:
- Design System — Audited the product surface by surface and rebuilt the core design system, creating a scalable component library supporting the entire platform across 20 languages.
- Product Rebuild — Led the redesign of the entire customer-facing experience across sports, casino, accounts, rewards, onboarding, and core acquisition journeys.
- On-chain Launch — Designed and shipped the experience for the launch of the on-chain bonus, driving 42,031 registrations in the first month, up from roughly 300 the month before.
- Acquisition — Designed the signup and onboarding experience, achieving 75.9% completion during launch week against a 20–28% baseline.
- Design & Development — Introduced an AI-assisted design-to-code workflow, taking work from Figma through to merged pull requests. Personally designed, built, and merged 205 pull requests.
- Design Function — Established the design function from scratch, introducing new workflows, hiring and onboarding frameworks, and building the design team.
- Currently leading the continued evolution of the product, design system, and design-to-development workflow while building out the design team and practice.
AmazonApr 2021 – Aug 2025
Senior UX Designer · Amazon Autos · Jan 2023 – Aug 2025
Moved to NY to join Amazon Autos, a 0 → 1 initiative to reimagine car sales on Amazon. One of the first designers on the team, I led the design for several core workstreams—from initial concept to launch.
Designed, tested, and delivered end-to-end experiences, including:
- Checkout — Adapting Amazon's data-driven approach to the car-buying journey.
- Trade-in Valuation — Allowing customers to trade in their existing vehicles.
- Pricing Patterns — Providing transparent, upfront pricing across the experience.
- Pickup Scheduling — Enabling customers to select convenient pickup times and methods.
- Helped scale the team from 3 to 18 designers. Led hiring interviews, onboarded new designers, and provided mentorship.
- Contributed to design operations and strategy, writing guides on running an effective design team.
- Became an Accessibility Bar Raiser (ABR) after a year-long certification program. Now responsible for reviewing designs across teams to meet Amazon's accessibility standards.
Senior UX Designer · Amazon Payments · Apr 2021 – Jan 2023
Led the design for Amazon's UK Rewards Credit Card, owning research, UX, and visual design.
- Designed the entire end-to-end customer journey, from acquisition and application to card management.
- Partnered with agencies to develop the credit card's name and brand identity, and personally designed the physical card.
- Successfully launched the credit card while also leading design for Amazon's instalments programme and Money Store.
Deloitte DigitalSept 2015 – Apr 2021
Senior Product Designer · Apple + Deloitte · Sept 2019 – Apr 2021
Designed the NHS's National Covid Testing apps, from ideation at the start of the pandemic through to the design of several iOS apps in the suite.
- Working on our partnership with Apple, led the design of iOS apps that aim to bring consumer-quality experiences to those at work.
- Collaborated with Apple's designers to find creative solutions to user needs, whilst ensuring designs adhered to their Human Interface Guidelines.
- Led teams of junior designers during this time and worked with business analysts, engineers and product owners.
Product Designer · Sept 2015 – Sept 2019
Worked across the entire design lifecycle, focussing on user research and interaction design.
- Planned and analysed large-scale surveys (6,000+ participants), panel research and diary studies.
- Set up a designer coding club focussing on HTML and CSS.
- Delivered UX training for both Deloitte employees and clients.
Deloitte2013
Technology Risk Intern · Jun 2013 – Aug 2013
Summer internship scheme. Worked across data, controls and security.
Education
Shillington College · 2018
Design and Visual Communication
University of Sheffield · 2011 – 2015
MEng Mechanical Engineering · 1st Class
McGill University · 2013 – 2014
Engineering
Awards
BIMA · 2021
Shillington · 2018
The University of Sheffield · 2013 – 2015
Sheffield Graduate Award · Alumni Scholarship
Tools
Figma · Sketch · Framer · Webflow · Flinto · InVision · Illustrator · Photoshop · InDesign · After Effects · Premiere Pro · Keynote · HTML · CSS · Google Analytics
Skills
Product design
Sketching · Wireframing · High-fidelity design · Prototyping · Motion · Accessibility · Style guides · Mobile · Copywriting
Visual design
Branding · Print · Editorial · Art direction · Infographics
Research and testing
Personas · Diary studies · Surveys · Site visits · Interviews · User journeys · Rapid prototyping · Test facilitation
Product thinking
Customer strategy · Feature prioritisation · Data analytics
Thoughtful words from colleagues
Taken from my LinkedIn recommendations
“Ismael is a highly talented, driven, and influential senior designer. I have had the great luck of watching Ismael take ownership and deliver results on a number of large and complex projects. Ismael’s customer obsession is a recurring feature of his passion for insisting on delivering the best possible experiences. This is demonstrable in his ability to deliver detailed and comprehensive mixed methods research when needed. Ismael is a high performing addition to any team, and he will always be welcome in mine in the future.”

Design Manager, Amazon Payments
“Ismael is an exceptional designer who can take ambiguous asks and consistently deliver novel solutions at Amazon scale. His ability to generate and communicate diverse design concepts, while maintaining a commitment to quality, has been instrumental in advancing the Amazon Autos product vision. He navigates complex, ambiguous problem spaces with calm and confidence that balance business requirements and technical constraints. He's passionate about accessibility and inclusive design, and has elevated our team's output and improved the product's usability for all customers.”

Design Manager, Amazon Autos
“Ismael is a standout design talent. He has a deep understanding of foundational design principles, and consistently applies these in innovative and creative ways. He's an excellent communicator and collaborator and is always a pleasure to work with, lending his expertise to support ambitious goals and deliver delightful experiences.”

Head of Credit Cards, Amazon Payments
“I had the pleasure of working with Ismael for over a year while we built the purchase experience for Amazon Autos—and simply put, he’s one of the best UX designers I’ve worked with. Ismael brings a rare blend of deep UX craft, product empathy, and technical pragmatism. He doesn’t just design beautiful experiences—he designs solutions that work across real-world constraints and align with the broader goals of the business.”

Sr. Product Manager, Amazon Autos