About

messy systems.

I'm Jonathan Pace — a Lead UX/UI Designer and Design Systems Architect based in Malta. I specialise in turning ambiguity into structure: scalable design systems, governed component libraries, and product UX for complex, regulated platforms.

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Jonathan Pace — Lead UX/UI Designer
Jonathan Pace — Lead UX/UI Designer
The short version

A decade of experience designing for complexity — iGaming, fintech, government, and internal tooling. I turn ambiguity into structure: practical foundations that teams adopt, maintain, and build on. Not portfolios of pretty screens — systems that actually ship.

How I work

Clarity over cleverness

Simple, understandable systems beat impressive-but-fragile ones. If it needs a manual, it needs a redesign.

Standards that stick

Documentation and governance that teams actually follow — because they were built with the people who use them.

Ship, measure, refine

Bias toward shipping with evidence. A/B tests, analytics, and user feedback drive iteration — not assumptions.

Design with dev

Close collaboration with engineering from day one. Tokens, specs, and handoff that reduce back-and-forth.

What you get

System thinking

Token architecture, component libraries, and governance frameworks that scale across teams and brands.

Delivery with pace

Structured process that moves fast without cutting corners — from research through to shipped pixels.

Quality baseline

Accessibility, consistency, and performance built into the foundation — not bolted on after.

Career arc
01

Product UX

End-to-end product design across regulated industries — casino, sports, fintech.

02

Scale & multi-brand

Designing for 100+ brands, multi-market platforms, and complex product matrices.

03

Design systems

Token-first architecture, component libraries, and cross-team adoption strategies.

04

Team alignment

Governance, contribution models, and design ops that keep teams shipping together.

If you want pace without chaos,
I'm your person.