Product Designer
Ryan Arthur
14 years designing digital products inside small, mighty teams, from the user's story up. Every engagement starts with user story mapping and stakeholder interviews, then moves into browser prototyping alongside the build team. Lately I pair that practice with AI agents I author, which compresses weeks of discovery into days. I learned the approach across a decade at Launch Scout, refined it at Configure, and carry it into every engagement at Ryan Arthur Digital.
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Product Designer and Founder, Ryan Arthur Digital
2022 to Present
- Partner with founders, product teams, and agencies to take products from discovery to launch, owning research, UX, UI, prototyping, and front-end code.
- Redesigned time-entry, review, and admin workflows for AddnAide, a HIPAA-adjacent home-healthcare platform, shipping every mockup as a full-fidelity Phoenix LiveView prototype, mobile-first for aides in the field, with EVV and compliance flows built so the compliant path is the easy path.
- Built an AI-assisted discovery workflow that pairs Claude agent personas I author with code-based prototyping in Next.js, grounded in user story mapping and jobs-to-be-done, compressing weeks of story-mapping into days.
- Ship production HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to web-component and accessibility standards, and build design systems in Figma and code that keep client teams fast after handoff.
- Won a NASA Tournament Lab challenge for a ground control station interface that let one operator monitor and control multiple autonomous aircraft.
Phoenix LiveView
Next.js
AI Agents
UX Engineer, Configure, Inc.
2023 to 2025
- Sole designer for Configure 2.0, an AI-assisted construction-procurement marketplace, owning design and shipping production UI across the buyer platform (DemandPortal, Bid Day), the Atlas storefront and discovery platform, the seller pricing tools, and Configure Approvals.
- Designed and shipped Bid Day end to end, from project setup and Bill-of-Design management to quote import with PDF-to-text conversion, multi-vendor comparison, and exportable selections, built as Blazor and Razor components.
- Designed the multi-sided Atlas marketplace, including manufacturer and supplier storefronts, search, professional networking, an activity feed, and a SignalR-driven notifications layer with embedded CometChat.
- Shipped Configure Approvals, a submittals workflow built on code-shareable Clipboards where stakeholders share by short code, suggest swaps, and send to order, mobile-first for client review.
- Designed Configure Assistant, the platform's AI product-recommendation chat, partnering with the AI team on a knowledge-graph backend built on ontoGPT and OpenAI function-calling.
- Stood up the design system in code, an SCSS token foundation and a domain-specific Blazor component library, written in Razor and Blazor alongside the .NET team with no Figma-to-production handoff.
Blazor / Razor
SCSS
.NET
UX Designer, Launch Scout
2012 to 2022
- Spent 10 years at a custom-software consultancy designing B2B SaaS, enterprise, and 0-to-1 products across finance, pharma, manufacturing, AEC, aviation, and Web3, from discovery through shipped front-end code.
- Practiced Launch Scout's discovery-led process, where user story mapping anchored every engagement and the "Design Sandwich" kept UX, development, and UI iterating together inside small, mighty teams. I have carried it into every role since.
- Led design on the construction-procurement marketplace for KLH Engineers, from design sprint through launch. It secured more than $1.5M in seed funding in year one and drew buy-in from Autodesk.
- Designed PRESTO for E-Beam Services, a work-order system that replaced paper across 3 facilities in 3 states with no parallel run. The COO called it "functional software we could test."
- Built production front ends for an open-source blockchain explorer (POA Network and BlockScout) and a real-time pharmacy-pricing platform for Omnicare, a CVS Health company.
User Story Mapping
Design Sandwich
Front-End Code
Education
BSA Visual Communication
University of Cincinnati, DAAP. 2008 to 2013.
Skills
Design
Figma
UX Design
UI Design
Design Sprints
User Story Mapping
Stakeholder Interviews
Information Architecture
Wireframing
Interaction Design
Design Systems
Design Tokens
User Testing
Mobile-First Design
Code
HTML
CSS / SCSS
JavaScript / TypeScript
Phoenix LiveView
Blazor / Razor
Next.js
Web Components
Web Accessibility
Git
Agile
AI
Jobs-to-Be-Done
Claude Code
AI Agent Authoring