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Matt - Principal Product Designer & Leader

uxmatthew@gmail.com

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Passionate, Calm, Focused

Designing experiences that work like magic from start to finish.

I apply craft to shape the latest technology into polished, shipped products. I work collaboratively to align organizational goals with user experience outcomes to inspire great work.

0→1 CreatorAI NerdSystems Thinker
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Agent Guide ready pop-up widget with options to "Upload checklist," "Pull report metadata," or "List all sub-processors."
"Growth Example" portfolio view with an allocation slider, investment type breakdown below, and a growth chart on the right.
Illustration of a man riding a rocket and smiling. Above it reads "a master of my domain."
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Outcomes

$1M+

Transaction enabled at first beta

Opto

93%

Plugin retention rate

Intuit QuickBooks

50%

Conversion lift on integrations

Intuit QuickBooks

2

Design teams built from scratch

Elementum, Opto

35%

Increase in daily active users

Tegus

10×

Increase in user adoption

Elementum

Selected Work

B2B Security & Compliance Platform

Agentic security review interface showing a Trust Center with an AI side panel for automated document analysis and checklist matching.
AIdiscoverystrategyValidated

Agentic future of security reviews

As more security portals and tools entered the market, expectations had shifted. I led solo discovery, concepting, and design to deliver a validated interactive prototype illustrating the agentic tools needed, and how they could appear in the UI.

Key challenge: Meeting reviewers where they were, when our customers wanted to control presentation differently.

  • ✦Validated Interaction Paradigm
  • ✦1–2 hrs est. time saved per use

Private Investment Platform Beta

Private investment platform showing portfolio recommendation flow, fund allocation charts, and advisor client dashboard.
0→1researchstrategyShipped

Private fund investing made simple

A FinTech startup had promised a Beta in three months, but had only done some initial concept research. I led 0→1 design end to end to engage, educate, and guide advisors through transactions in a way that matched how they think.

Key challenge: Maintaining an approachable entry point as internal experts pushed for ever more complexity.

  • ✦Secured (early) first-ever transactions
  • ✦On time launch in 3 months
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Where I Excel

Leading discovery, collaboration, and design to delight users.

  • Balancing needs, expectations, constraints, and opportunities to invent new things
  • Cultivating clarity through strategy, insights, systems, and alignment to enable great decisions
  • Anchoring teams in the problem space before the solution space so the best ideas can surface
  • Mapping experiences to mental models across web, mobile, API, CLI, and agentic surfaces

Key Capabilities

Discovery

Uncovering the opportunity landscape and synthesizing insights into a shared view that builds momentum.

Collaboration

Working with leaders and cross-functional teams from first sketch to deployed detail, with shared ownership of quality.

Design Craft

Streamlining flows, interactions, and UI details. Knowing when to utilize and grow design systems and when to build one-offs from scratch.

Leadership

Driving confidence across design, product, and engineering through mentorship, design ops, and clear strategic decisions.

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Let's work together.

I'm open to lead IC and design leadership roles, especially with strong mission-oriented organizations where creativity and craft are core to the culture.

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