Senior Product Designer London Barclays

Shannon Hecker

Designing what traders, analysts, and ops teams use every day. Inside the banks most never see.

Fifteen years in design, ten on the tools behind trading floors. Going deep on AI tooling in the last few months. At Barclays now, with nine years at J.P. Morgan before that. Senior, then VP Product Design on the Fusion platform. Building uoaui.ai on the side, in private alpha.

Recently When everyone can ship

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Now building · private alpha

uoaui.ai A visual web builder for designers who think in systems.

Side project, private alpha. Two surfaces: a UI Kit across Salt, Material 3, Fluent 2, Carbon, and the uoaui system, plus a Builder that turns prompts into UIs with compare, tune, and code export.

Role Designer + Builder
Stage Private alpha · 2026
Stack Claude · Next.js · edge-rendered
Who I am

About me.

Designing what traders and analysts use every day.

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Design engineer at Barclays, running the design system across FX and MarketsOne: tokens, components, accessibility, and useful AI tooling. Before that, nine years at J.P. Morgan, ending as VP Product Design on Fusion. Building uoaui.ai on the side, in private alpha.

15yrs
In design, from brand to enterprise fintech
9yrs
At J.P. Morgan, ending as VP Product Design
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Across every product shipped
Now · this month
  • Shipping. AI-assisted design system at Barclays across FX and MarketsOne.
  • Reading. Designing Machine Learning Systems by Chip Huyen.
  • Writing. The design system is the contract.
  • Experimenting. uoaui.ai in private alpha with a handful of early testers.
Outside work
  • Based in St Albans, a 40-minute ride from King’s Cross.
  • Taiwan-born. English and Mandarin.
  • Married with two kids, plus one fluffy cat called Quorra.
  • Soya latte, extra shot. Strong leaf tea on design days.

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