What others say – 19seventytwo

What others say about me.

Maria Raga

CEO at Depop

It has been a wonderful journey and Max has been in it since D1, as part of the Depop founding team. He is also, one of the people I brought back when I became Depop CEO to take our product to the next level.

From my experience working with him, I can say that Max has always put Depop first, with his actions and his decisions. He has worked tirelessly to bring ideas to live and to solve really complex problems and thanks to his passion and dedication for Design and UX and most of all, for our community we managed to overcome them.

He’s always a step ahead in terms of ideas and ideations and as he always says..."I'm a dreamer" but I'd say, a dreamer with a vision to make dreams come true.

Hootan Mahallati

Co-Founder & CEO at Hyperseed, former CPO at Depop

I had the pleasure of working with Max during my roughly one year at Depop. The first thing that comes to mind when I reflect on our time together is Max's qualities and values as a person, a colleague and a manager. We met during an intense period of growth and change at Depop and I knew I could rely on Max to help raise our collective product game where it concerned the matters of design.

No matter that recommendations or asks I had, whether it was creating a company-wise style guide and calibrating various design streams to hosting knowledge-exchange events for designers from the greater London startup scene, Max was a man of action. The real measure of it all is that I simply miss working with Max.

Luca Gherardi

Product at Klarna, former Head of Product at Depop

I had the pleasure to work side by side with Max for the last year and I couldn't have asked more! He's the perfect partner in crime that every product leader needs: his leadership and creative skills have taken Depop where it is today! On top of everything I want to call out Max's ability to always step out of his confort zone and constantly challenge himself. To solve user problems related to accessibility he proactively up-skilled himself and started a company-wide movement to embed accessibility into everything that depop does. It's thanks to people like Max that users are always at the center of everything we do!

Nebil Kriedi

Head of Mobile Engineer, former Lead Engineer at Depop

Me and Max had come a long journey together in Depop. From the earliest prototype of the app to the newest Apple Watch experiment, it is hard to thing about something Max has not given a contribution to. The inspiration I took from him was to always consider the whole user journey to make sure no detail was discounted. He had always been promoting this thorough mindset to everyone in the company to make sure everyone was capable of understanding how the product works, and therefore give feedback quickly. Whether you are launching a new product or you are trying to make it a success, be sure you have this kind of mindset onboard.

Alessandro Candolini

Physicist, Tech Lead and Senior Staff Engineer

I only have great words to describe Max, professionally and as a friend. Max has in-depth and in-breath skills that allow him to both dig deeply into the nitty gritty aspects of a feature, with great attention to all the small details that ultimate make the difference, while at the same time being able to connect the dots between engineering challenges, product opportunities, user experience, and market needs. I've learnt so much by working together with Max, and I have had so many fruitful and insightful discussions which have resulted in building much better features for our users and also helped myself grow in my role. In a world too often dominated by fragmented features and incoherent design, Max will instead be able to provide energy and soul to your product, and make the product speaks by itself to the end users.
Max definitely has high standards of quality, which makes him the perfect fit for ambitious, innovative, challenging new projects, or to bring some fresh oxygen into established ones. At the same time he has experience in cutting the right scope for an exploratory MVP, while keeping the MVP still meaningful from a user and company perspective.

Mark Jenkins

UX Lead funda, formerly 72ansSunny, Mentor, The Dots, Depop, Just Eat

It has been an absolute pleasure to work with Max during my time at Depop. He's one of the most genuine and authentic people that I know and this meant we became close friends, both inside and out of the office.

With his meticulous attention to detail and a real can-do attitude Max made the transition of me starting my new role a pleasurable one. Always on hand to help and offer advice, getting me up to speed with where the iOS and Android apps were, it was as if I had been there for months even though it was a week! For the last 10 months we've worked together, furthering the Depop app, and Max has a broad, but refined skill set that allows him to showcase his clear, coherent UI design style. He applies his knowledge of iOS to plan and produce a simple UX and UI for our nearly 2 million large community.

I wouldn't hesitate to recommend Max as a welcome addition to any team, it's a no brainer really. Smart, articulated and friendly, Max helps to bring out the best in people and goes way beyond the call of duty in his day to day duties.

Paolo Farinella

Engineering Director at AMEX, formerly ASAP, OfficeServe, Amazon

I had the opportunity to work with Max at OfficeServe where hewas Lead Designer. At that time, Max went beyond his role' dutiestaking the lead of the mobile teams to help them deliver appsthat were crucial for the success of our business. Moreover, Maxis also a pleasant and sociable person to work with.

Amir Lodge

Senior Digital Project Managern

Working with Max is a tremendous experience. We worked together to build a Live Shopping streaming platform for Depop and produce 8 shows across the UK, US and AUS markets alongside the design & build process. It's been a great experience working with Max and I've learnt so much about the UX/UI process along the way and we made a fantastic product thanks to Max's invaluable contribution to the projec.

Marisa Elena Todd

CPO & Design Executive

Max is one of the most passionate, kind and caring designers I have ever worked with. He is extremely detail oriented and willnot settle for less than perfect execution. Max always goes aboveand beyond to deliver simple, clean, beautiful user experiences. Ilook forward to working with Max again one day.

Akshay Dashrath

Tech and Coffee

Max is a very talented and detail-oriented designer . He addsvalue through considered thinking and quality of execution, anddemonstrated understanding and commitment to his work. Iwould not hesitate in recommending Max to anyone who requireshigh-quality design and user-experience solutions.

Seamus Clancy

Senior iOS developer at Treatwell, formerly Monese, Depop, Gamesys, Ideaworks3D

I worked with Max for more than 2 years in Depop, and he was one of them most vital parts of the team. Dedicated and passionate about the product not satisfied with anything lest than perfection when it comes to implantation of UX and design. Strong skills include his ability to designing content within the native system of mobile platforms, and creating simple optimum flows within the application. I have no hesitation to recommend max to any team, just as I would have no hesitation to work with him again.

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