Joey Thompson

JOEY THOMPSON

AI-forward Product Design Lead balancing strategy and craft, thinking in systems, and elevating teams.

Specialist in IxD, PLG, behavioural design, and 0–1 projects.

Selected Work

HubSpot agentic onboarding platform: product UI showing the conversational setup experience

Agentic onboarding platform

I drove HubSpot’s Agentic Onboarding platform; an initiative that emerged as a response to an outdated onboarding model which was inflexibly hard coded, time consuming and serving none of our user base.

As part of this platform, we shipped the industry’s first LLM driven setup flow, which through the course of a chat configures the portal and generates assets on the user’s behalf and cuts time to value in half.

  • Project DRI & lead designer
  • +33% activation
  • 3x free plan monetization
The Economist paywall and subscription offer: behavioural design treatment in the reading experience

Behavioural design at work

In three days of rapid iteration and testing, I designed a behavioral science inspired paywall that went against conventional wisdom to simplify and reduce copy wherever possible.

I used carefully structured messaging to build desire, reinforce credibility, and anchor the subscription price against a stronger perceived value. That approach lifted both paying subscribers and free signups, demonstrating that the right kind of complexity can convert better than simplicity.

  • +40% paying subscribers
  • +100% free signups

About

Currently: Principal Product Designer at HubSpot.

Previously: Miro, Intercom, The Economist, William Hill.

My design profile could be described as restlessly curious, high agency, with rich editorial judgement. I deeply believe in Steve Job’s mantra that “great artists ship”, which emphasizes the power of proving out an idea in rapid prototype and iteration cycles on shipped designs. I balance this by channeling my approach through the lens of deep seated customer care and the rigour of systems thinking.

If you need deep expertise on complex projects, or want to elevate your team's product design practice, levelling up design quality, interaction design, design for AI, content design, behavioural design, or product led growth, I'd love to chat with you.