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Phoenix Baker

Phoenix Baker

Product designer

London, UK

Designs founder products where the first screen earns trust—not just looks polished.

Role
Designers
On StartCoLink since
Sep 2020

Exploring Product taste, onboarding, and design as a build partner—not a final coat of paint.

If the UI needs a tooltip to explain what to do next, the layout already lost.

Phoenix works with seed-stage teams in London and remotely across Europe. Most engagements start when a founder has traction in a spreadsheet but the product still reads like an internal tool.

She prefers working in the open: shared Figma files, annotated flows, and weekly critique sessions with the whole team—not a big reveal at the end. Recent work includes discovery flows for StartCoLink and launch pages for two SaaS betas.

Before going independent, she spent four years on a product design team where she owned onboarding for a community platform.

Path so far

A short arc—not a résumé dump. Dates are approximate where early work overlapped.

  1. 2020 – present

    Independent product designer

    End-to-end UX for SaaS, community, and founder-facing tools.

  2. 2016 – 2020

    Senior product designer, community platform

    Led onboarding and profile experiences for a fast-growing membership product.

On StartCoLink

Launches and events Phoenix has shared with the community.