Product Designer for Early-Stage Startups

I turn ideas into useful tech products, and improve existing ones.

Projects

Some of the client projects I worked on.

Redesigned the core search and management experience to eliminate user friction in property discovery. I focused on streamlining high-intent user flows to increase lead generation and provide a scalable foundation for platform growth.

Built a validated, cross-platform MVP that simplified owner-tenant interactions. I focused on automating repetitive management tasks, resulting in a leaner experience that allows users to manage properties with significantly less operational overhead.

Redesigned a fragmented IoT ecosystem into a modular, card-based interface. I simplified complex device controls into a high-performance dashboard, directly improving user satisfaction and lowering cognitive load for residential users.

Led design sprints to transform fragmented accounting data into a unified, actionable dashboard. By centralizing communication and data-sharing between teams and clients, I eliminated manual bottlenecks and validated a prototype that enables real-time financial decision-making without the traditional email back-and-forth.

Playground

Designs that I did for fun or never saw the light.

About me

Just a few lines about myself.

12 years of turning rough ideas into businesses.

I'm George, Product Designer who's worked with various early-stage startups across PropTech, Fintech, Healthcare, and IoT to create a product from 0 to 1 and find product-market fit, as well as fixing what is not working in a live product.

Some of my highlights include:

  • Over €10M in total raised by founders I worked with

  • More than 20 shipped products from concept to launch

  • Initial designer of a mobile app with over 10M downloads

Based in: Bucharest, Romania

Working: Worldwide

Always up for a good problem

Whether it's a new idea or an old product that needs fixing, I'd like to hear about it.

15 minutes

No commitment required

Working with clients worldwide

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Let's connect

Always up for a good problem

Whether it's a new idea or an old product that needs fixing, I'd like to hear about it.

15 minutes

No commitment required

Working with clients worldwide

Copy Email

Let's connect

Always up for a good problem

Whether it's a new idea or an old product that needs fixing, I'd like to hear about it.

15 minutes

No commitment required

Working with clients worldwide

Copy Email

Let's connect

© 2026 George Barbu. All rights reserved.

© 2026 George Barbu. All rights reserved.

© 2026 George Barbu. All rights reserved.