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Alek Walker

Principal Product Designer | M-Shaped

I turn complex, ambiguous problems, including LLM-driven, human-in-the-loop workflows, into clear, intuitive experiences for technical and non-technical users alike. From product strategy to pixel-perfect execution, I've built design functions from zero across pharma, healthcare, and martech.

Currently building Prudentia Sciences' design function, from seed through Series A and beyond.

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designers mentored

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design systems(2 authored)

* Revenue influenced represents estimated revenue impact across 10 years of B2B work, including contract closes, upsells, and renewals where design efforts contributed to deal velocity, enterprise adoption, or expansion.

Shipping in code, not just Figma

I've shipped code since early in my career at Bridgera, and it's central to how I scale design at Prudentia today: design tokens, accessibility audits, and reusable components other teams can consume.

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Where it happens

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Work

Authoring a Production Design System From Zero

With no dedicated design-systems team to build one, I sole-authored a versioned, token-based component library now backing a four-codebase ecosystem, taking it from zero to a published package in about 3 months with 68 components, WCAG AA, and a 90% coverage gate built into CI.

Company
Prudentia Sciences
Role
Senior → Principal Product Designer
Timeline
Mar 2025 – present

Designing systems that outlast teams

When an outdated, inconsistent design system was slowing down design-to-dev handoff and failing accessibility basics, I rebuilt it as a token-based Figma system across roughly 40 views, and the company hit its largest sales quarter next.

Company
Cordial
Role
UX/UI Designer
Timeline
2022 – 2025

Trust-Centered Alerts for Platform Reliability

When alert fatigue from noisy notifications meant clients had stopped trusting, and often disabled, the alerts meant to warn them, I built a scalable alerting framework and notification feed that became the foundation the next version of alerting was built on.

Company
Cordial
Role
UX/UI Designer
Timeline
2022 – 2025

First Designer: Building a Design Function from Zero

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Joining a VC/Seed-stage startup as its first product designer, with no product manager, no design system, and no shared bar for what 'good' meant, I started the company's recurring product demo and review rituals, standards still running today.

Company
Prudentia Sciences
Role
Founding Product Designer
Timeline
Mar 2025 – Present

How I work

Written the way I'd write tokens: short, named, and meant to be reused.

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:root {

--simplicity: earned;

Great design reduces complexity through deliberate tradeoffs, iteration, and restraint.

--scope: systems, not silos;

User problems rarely exist in isolation, and neither do the systems that support them.

--quality: alignment;

Product quality is a reflection of how well teams collaborate and share ownership.

--leadership: communication;

Design leadership is practiced by clearly advocating for users, negotiating constraints, and aligning decisions.

}

Leadership & mentorship

I build the scaffolding that lets design work outlast any single designer: taking platforms through Series A as their design lead, authoring design systems from scratch, and scaling design operations as teams and product surface area grow.

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