DESIGNMATCH

Barry Allen

Product Designer, dating & social apps
Berlin, Germany · open to hybrid
BA
barry.allen@example.com +49 30 555 0148 barryallen.example.com He/him · DE + EN

My profile

I design product flows for dating and social apps, mostly onboarding, matching, and safety features. Over the past 6 years I shipped work used by roughly 4 million monthly people and ran about 40 A/B tests.

I like the messy middle of a feature: the empty states, the awkward first message, the moment someone decides to swipe or close the app. I read every survey response myself, even the ones written at 2am.

Swipe through my roles

96% match 2022 – present

Senior Product Designer

Sparkline Dating, Berlin
Full time · matching & safety squad
  • Rebuilt the matching flow, which lifted mutual-match rate 18% and cut first-message drop-off from 41% to 29%.
  • Led the design of an in-chat safety check that 62% of new users now enable in week one.
  • Set up a weekly research loop with 8 users, feeding 3 to 5 findings into each sprint.
Pass
91% match 2019 – 2022

Product Designer

Meetly, Hamburg
Full time · growth & onboarding
  • Redesigned signup from 9 steps to 5, raising completion from 54% to 71%.
  • Shipped a photo-tips screen that grew profiles with 3+ photos by 27%.
  • Ran 22 A/B tests over 2 years; 14 shipped to all users.
Pass
84% match 2017 – 2019

UX Designer

Nordwind Studio, Cologne
Agency · consumer apps
  • Designed 6 client apps, 2 of them for social and dating startups.
  • Built the studio's first shared component kit, cutting handoff time about 30%.
Pass
79% match 2016 – 2017

Junior UI Designer

Klarheit GmbH, Cologne
First design job
  • Handled UI for 2 web products and drew a lot of icons, roughly 200 in one year.
  • Learned to accept feedback without crying at my desk. Mostly.
Pass
IT'S A MATCH

Barry and your product team liked each other. Dream team note: I pair well with researchers who bring receipts and engineers who ask "why" before "how".

Skills, ranked by compatibility

Figma 97% Design systems 93% User research 90% Prototyping 92% A/B testing 88% Onboarding UX 94% Trust & safety design 85% Motion / micro-interactions 80% Accessibility (WCAG) 82%

Also on my profile

B.A. Communication Design

Rheinische Hochschule, Cologne
2012 – 2016

Thesis on trust cues in first-message screens. Graded 1.3.

Talks & side things

  • Spoke at Berlin Product Nights 2024 on safety in chat design, 120 attendees.
  • Mentor 3 junior designers through a local design collective.
  • Keep a small blog on empty-state design, about 1,200 readers a month.
References available on request · Last updated July 2026