Hello, I’m Niko Antonogiannis.
I design systems that help organisations make better decisions — repeatedly.
I'm a design leader with over 15 years of experience working across digital products, platforms, and organisations.
My background spans UX design, product strategy, and organisational design, with a strong focus on environments where complexity is high: fintech, SaaS, enterprise platforms, and AI-enabled systems.
Rather than focusing only on outputs, I work on the conditions that produce good outcomes:
Clear strategy
Strong decision frameworks
Healthy collaboration across disciplines
My leadership style is grounded in empathy, systems thinking, and collaboration — not as slogans, but as practical tools for navigating ambiguity and trade-offs.
My Philosophy
I don’t believe design succeeds through better artifacts alone.
It succeeds when:
Strategy is explicit
Teams share a common language
Decisions are visible and reversible
Learning is built into delivery
That’s where design becomes a multiplier.
My Experiences
I started my career in London as a UX designer, working mainly on native mobile applications and freelancing with digital agencies. During this time, I worked on projects for large consumer and content-driven brands, including Emirates Airline, The Telegraph, and The Economist.
In 2014, I joined SapientNitro, where I first moved into fintech, designing mobile banking applications for RBS and NatWest. This marked a shift toward more complex, regulated environments and long-lived digital products. I later continued this work at HSBC.
After moving to Switzerland, my focus shifted further toward complex financial systems. I worked on fintech products for risk and compliance users at IMTF and Credit Swiss, designing tools used by specialists operating in high-stakes, highly regulated contexts.
More recently, I led design at FNZ, working on a global wealth management platform serving around 30 million end investors. In this role, I focused on scaling design across teams, improving the experience for investment advisers, and exploring how AI technologies can be applied responsibly to support decision-making and productivity.
Over time, my work has evolved from designing individual interfaces to shaping systems, platforms, and the way design operates within organisations.