Ryan Brownlow

Ryan Brownlow

Founding Designer, Ex: Head of Design

I design B2B Saas, big data analytics, and AI products with a focus on design quality and business goals

Founding Designer - Building a B2B, AI product from 0-1

Founding Designer - Building a B2B, AI product from 0-1

Led to a $5m seed funding round, attracted design partners, landing our first customers, 80% move to book 2nd meeting after demo

Product design
User Research
AI
Design systems
Prototyping
Head of Design - Rebuilding a team designing machine learning analytics tools

Head of Design - Rebuilding a team designing machine learning analytics tools

Scaled team from 2 to 5 designers, reduced hiring time by 20%, promoted 1 team member to Staff

Design leadership
Design hiring
ML
Product design
Product strategy
Design Lead - Removing the stress of deploying deep, distributed systems

Design Lead - Removing the stress of deploying deep, distributed systems

100% voluntary user adoption, 10x increase in page interactions, 3x investigations launched

Product design
User Research
Design systems
Distributed tracing
Observability
Big data
UX Consultant - Research and Design to create the interface to a robot-powered restaurant

UX Consultant - Research and Design to create the interface to a robot-powered restaurant

Reduced design cyles to 1 week, reduced order times by 8%

Product design
User Research
Design systems
Animation
Prototyping
Robotics interface
Lead UX - Research and design of the Famous Mobile App Builder and Cloud platform

Lead UX - Research and design of the Famous Mobile App Builder and Cloud platform

Product design
User Research
Design systems
Animation
Prototyping
Product Design Lead - Research and Designing a new approach to workers comp insurance
Product Design Lead - Research and Designing a new approach to workers comp insurance hover

Product Design Lead - Research and Designing a new approach to workers comp insurance

Product design
User Research
Design systems
Animation
Prototyping

I have spent 20+ years helping startups and large organizations turn complex problems into simple, experiences that generate value.

Lately, I've been exploring how AI will change my design workflow, creating efficiencies and expanding my capabilities.

Quotes from my teammates

Kay

"Ryan drove the discovery process for the most recent iteration of our teams work. The uniformly positive feedback was a direct result of the effort Ryan put in"

  • Kay - Eng Lead @ Lightstep
Katia

"This was by far the most effective discovery process that I've participated in, and it led to a ~6 month roadmap for the team"

  • Katia - Sr. Engineer @ Lightstep
Brandon

"Ryan's framework for discovery really paid off. He has a great, almost intuitive, design sensibility and the ability to get at the heart of the user needs"

  • Brandon - Product Lead @ Lightstep
Jake

"Ryan is an exceptional UX designer, is dedicated to the craft, and is always actively learning, improving his skills, and expanding his knowledge"

  • Jake - Sr. Staff Designer @ Google
Don

"Ryan was able to quickly grasp what was needed and started proposing useful design concepts without wasting our time. I was very impressed with his responsiveness and commitment to schedule."

  • Don - CEO @ ?

About me

I believe in working hard and playing hard.

I was a competitive skydiver for over 20 years, with over 11,000 skydives and a 5-time member of the US Canopy Piloting Team. This experience taught me an important lesson: fulfillment comes from accomplishment, and accomplishment comes from taking ownership—whether in work or in life.

I'm a husband and father of three. For me, that's what it's all about.

Currently, I'm a Founding Designer and employee #1 at Korl, building AI products and escaping to the woods whenever possible.

Ryan Brownlow portrait
Kids in costumes
Family outdoor activity

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