Hey, I'm Ryan, a Senior Product Designer with over 10 years of experience in Product Design & Design Systems

By day, I'm a Senior Product Designer at Gradle on their Develocity product. In the past, I helped lead design systems at the New York Shipping Exchange as well as Ribbon Homes, and lead design for 7 years at Shoflo as their first and only designer. On the weekends, I'm helping bring accessibility to the masses through a community-wide initiative.

Ribbon Quilt design system
NYSHEX
Keel Design System

Keel is a bespoke design system built in Figma and on top of a comprehensive atomic design token architecture for the NYSHEX product team.

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Ribbon Quilt design system
Ribbon
Quilt Design System

Quilt is a custom Figma-based design system for the Ribbon design & engineering team. Built rapidly and complete with documentation and accessibility.

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Ribbon Quilt design system
Shoflo
Shoflo Studio

A look into the browser-based live streaming Studio I designed and launched during Covid with the the Shoflo team

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Shoflo
Polymer Design System

Polymer is the design system I designed and maintained for the Shoflo product team. Built in Figma with accessibility as its core tenet.

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Shoflo
Shoflo collected works

Shoflo is a software platform designed to empower event production teams to build live events in a collaborative, real time environment.

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Personal
Thyme

thyme is a side project that offers a new way of looking at your finances through the lens of time, rather than dollars.

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Personal
a11y initiative

The a11y initiative is a side project dedicated to helping designers and developers make their websites more accessible and inclusive for all through a month long set of challenges.

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Shoflo

Shoflo is a software platform designed to empower event production teams to build live events in a collaborative, real time environment.

Toolset

Figma, Sketch, Affinity Designer, After Effects, Photoshop, Webflow

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thyme

thyme is an upcoming app of mine that offers a new way of looking at your finances through the lens of time, rather than dollars.

Toolset

Figma, SwiftUI

Promo artwork for a11y initiative case study

a11y initiative

The a11y initiative is a side project dedicated to helping designers and developers make their websites more accessible and inclusive for all through a month long set of challenges.

Toolset

Webflow, Figma

About

I currently am a Senior Product Designer at New York Shipping Exchange (NYSHEX) working exclusively on design systems since January of 2023.

Prior to NYSHEX, I was one of two Senior Systems Designs at Ribbon Home responsible for designing and delivering a custom design system.

Before that, I was the only designer at Shoflo, designing live event production software and their design system.

When not tinkering with Figma, I am working on a fintech app (thyme), a community accessibility resource (a11y initiative), or on my 10+ year freelance client project helping usher in the next era of entrepreneurs.

I have been designing for 10 years with a focus on creating accessible design systems. Outside of tech, I enjoy baking, fermentation, coffee, gardening, EDM, and travel.

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