Ideas only count once they ship. So stay curious, make it beautiful, put it in people’s hands. Then go again.
Zero-to-one product design for founders with an idea, and fractional design leadership once you’re live.
Work with meMy own products, like Avvio and Vamos. I design them, ship them and keep them running.
See the appsPortraits, travel and fashion. The same eye, without a brief.
See the photography
Trusted tomove money across borders
AvvioStrategy, product, brand, launch
Selected work, each next to the number that mattered.
In-house leadership roles, companies I co-founded, agency years and independent projects. Each one is labelled.
Work with me
AvvioCo-founderCo-founder, head of designPayments volume up 150% in a single month2025 - Now
Avvio BusinessCo-founderCo-founder, head of designMass payouts to 150+ countries2025 - Now
ShakepayIn-houseProduct design leadNPS 80 · recurring orders +86%2022 - 2025
AyloIn-houseProduct designer to design manager150M daily visitors · 15+ designers2015 - 2021
AcquireIn-houseSenior product designer to product design leadCheckout 50% faster than Shopify2021 - 2022
Karbure & PiranhaAgencyGraphic designer to art directorSnowbirds 40th anniversary rebrand2008 - 2015
Le RituelIndependentBrand identity, web and photographyIdentity, site and photography2022-2025From first idea to launch, without building a design team first.
01Core offer
From idea to launched product, with one senior partner.
You have an idea and conviction, but no product, brand or design team yet. This is where I do my best work: it’s exactly how Avvio was built.
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Senior design leadership, two to three days a week.
You’re live and growing, and the product needs to look and feel like a company people trust. You need a design leader before you’re ready to hire one.
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Senior hands inside your team.
One critical flow is stuck (onboarding, payments, checkout) and your team is at capacity.
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Fixed scope, fixed date.
A rebrand, redesign, market entry or launch that can’t slip.
I design it likeit’s my own company.I’ve built a few.
15 years of design at agencies, in-house teams and startups I co-founded, Avvio among them. Vamos Studios brings that into three practices: consulting, apps and photography. Every project is led by me, Dave, from start to finish.
Work with meI make my own products too. It’s where I learn the most.
Read the Avvio storyAvvio: Money that moves like you doCo-founded. One account for people who live, earn and travel across borders. Demand outgrew operations, so the consumer app is invite-only.Avvio Business: Pay people everywhereCo-founded. Named accounts, mass payouts to 150+ countries and the controls finance teams expect.
Vamos: Travel, together or soloMy own travel app. Split costs in any currency and keep a short list of places worth the trip. Built in public, one detail at a time.03 Photography
Photography taught me to wait for the moment and leave everything else out. People, streets, wildlife and cars, shot wherever I land.
See it on InstagramShot for
About
I’m David. I started my first company, a surf streetwear brand, while studying graphic design. Since then: agency art director, design manager at Aylo, product design lead at Acquire and Shakepay, and co-founder and head of design at Avvio. Today I work as a fractional head of design and staff product designer, under the name Vamos Studios.
Designer, photographer and proud dad of two. I build experiences that connect, design systems that scale, and brands that say what they stand for. At work, behind the camera or at home, I’m after the same thing: moments that mean something.
Based in Playa del Carmen, on Eastern time most of the year. English and French. Fintech, AI, SaaS and ecommerce.