Alex Giuseppe Ispas — Product Designer

Pick the bottleneck. I'll ship the fix.

Activation, conversion, onboarding, retention. I find where your product is leaking, build the fix myself, and iterate until the numbers move.

No handoffs. I stay until it works.

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+48%conversion −50%support calls 2×reviews Top 5App Store 20k+installs, $0 ads #1 threadin the subreddit Top 3%Designer · Toptal Top 20%Stack Overflow
Whohears Chrome Extension
Whohears Side project App

Finding the distribution wedge — Last.fm cold start solved. 30k views, 800 comments from one Reddit post.

Backsie — AI mental health app
Backsie Client work App

Full product design for an AI-powered mental health companion — brand, UI system, and onboarding experience, from blank canvas to shippable MVP.

FirstPick — Real estate web app
FirstPick Client work App

Validating a bid-to-view rental idea before building. +30% inquiries · 21% participant conversion.

Whohears — early music player pivot
WH - 1.0 Side project App

80 hours of music gathered from the community. No copyright issues.

AI wellness MVP under NDA
AI wellness MVP Client work App

Shortening time to value for an early-stage MVP — identifying the AHA moment and redesigning the activation flow to get users there faster.

Under NDA
Inner Gap — AI mentors app
Inner Gap Client work App

Full 0→1 MVP design and front-end build for an AI mentoring platform — from blank canvas to live product, design and code in one.

Under NDA
Seinfeld inspired creative goodies shop
Seinfeld inspired - creative goodies shop Side project Shop

A playful Seinfeld-inspired collection built as a creative goodies shop with strong visual personality.

Rebus Clasic crossword app
Rebus Clasic Side project App

Classic Romanian crossword gameplay reimagined for mobile with a focused, clean puzzle experience.

Crosswords 2 mobile app
Integrame Clasic Side project App

Classic Romanian crossword gameplay reimagined for mobile.

RBCONF event branding
RubyConf Client work Website

Ruby conference event marketing website.

Case studies
Conversion Client work

+48% conversion for a travel agency

Signal:
Plenty of traffic, not enough bookings.
Fix:
Diagnosed the friction in the funnel and rebuilt the key decision points.
Result:
Conversion up 48% on the same traffic. Zero extra ad spend.
+48% conversion $0 extra ad spend
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Onboarding Client work

Support calls cut in half

Signal:
Users kept calling support just to check if they were eligible. The question was easy. The flow was broken.
Fix:
Mapped every scenario, compressed the journey, and added progress-saving so support could pick up exactly where users left off.
Result:
Support calls dropped 50%, and users reached value faster.
−50% support calls ↑ time to value
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Growth Own product

2× reviews from one well-timed prompt

Signal:
A Romanian crosswords app was getting downloads, but almost no reviews.
Fix:
Stopped asking at random. Triggered the review prompt only after a completed level, right before exit.
Result:
Reviews doubled, the app reached the top 5 in search, and passed 20,000 installs with no marketing budget.
2× reviews 1,300+ genuine reviews $0 marketing
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0→1 Client work

From spreadsheets to live SaaS in 4 weeks

Signal:
The team ran everything in spreadsheets, copy-pasting data and losing hours to admin.
Fix:
Designed and built a full SaaS product from scratch: real UI, real logic.
Result:
Live and in daily use within 4 weeks.
4 weeks to live 0→1 build
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Where do you need help?

Fix a leaky flow

Onboarding, activation, retention.

0→1

Idea to product people actually use - not just "shipped." Users who stick, come back, or pay.

Fractional product partner

All of the above, ongoing. Working directly with you.