Design Leader
Design Leader
Most AI products fail at the translation layer.
That's what I build.
Most AI products fail at the translation layer.
That's what I build.
Most AI products fail at the translation layer.
That's what I build.
12+ years designing systems at the edge of what's possible.
Enterprise, Web3, now AI infrastructure. The complexity only got bigger.
The interfaces stayed human.
From enterprise platforms to decentralized ecosystems,
I now design AI-native products that connects intelligent systems with human interaction.
12+ years designing systems at the edge of what's possible.
Enterprise, Web3, now AI infrastructure. The complexity only got bigger.
The interfaces stayed human.
Impact
A Decade of Product Design
A Decade of Product Design
Key milestones and metrics from over a decade designing digital products.
Key milestones and metrics from over a decade designing digital products.
12
y
12
y
Designing Digital Products
Across design agencies, SaaS platforms, Web3 protocols and emerging AI-native products.
12
y
12
y
Designing Digital Products
Across design agencies, SaaS platforms, Web3 protocols and emerging AI-native products.
12
12
Companies Collaborated With
Working with startups, scaleups and enterprise teams across multiple industries.
12
12
Companies Collaborated With
Working with startups, scaleups and enterprise teams across multiple industries.
15
+
15
+
Products Designed & Launched
From early concepts to shipped products used by real users.
1.5
m+
1.5
m+
Users Impacted
Across platforms delivering data insights, financial tools and AI-powered experiences.
9
9
Products Built From 0→1
Designing products from first concept to launch and product-market validation.
1.2
k+
1.2
k+
Components Built
Building scalable design systems used across platforms and teams.
500
h
500
h
Interviewing Users
Conducting interviews and research to uncover real user needs and behaviors.
15
+
15
+
Designers Mentored
Supporting designers through mentorship, feedback and product design leadership.
9
9
Products Built From 0→1
Designing products from first concept to launch and product-market validation.
1.2
k+
1.2
k+
Components Built
Building scalable design systems used across platforms and teams.
500
h
500
h
Interviewing Users
Conducting interviews and research to uncover real user needs and behaviors.
15
+
15
+
Designers Mentored
Supporting designers through mentorship, feedback and product design leadership.
15
+
15
+
Products Designed & Launched
From early concepts to shipped products used by real users.
1.5
m+
1.5
m+
Users Impacted
Across platforms delivering data insights, financial tools and AI-powered experiences.
9
9
Products Built From 0→1
Designing products from first concept to launch and product-market validation.
1.2
k+
1.2
k+
Components Built
Building scalable design systems used across platforms and teams.
500
h
500
h
Interviewing Users
Conducting interviews and research to uncover real user needs and behaviors.
15
+
15
+
Designers Mentored
Supporting designers through mentorship, feedback and product design leadership.
11
y
11
y
Designing Digital Products
Across design agencies, SaaS platforms, Web3 protocols and emerging AI-native products.
12
12
Companies Collaborated With
Working with startups, scaleups and enterprise teams across multiple industries.
1.5
m+
1.5
m+
Users Impacted
Across platforms delivering data insights, financial tools and AI-powered experiences.
15
+
15
+
Products Designed & Launched
From early concepts to shipped products used by real users.
My Work
Selected Projects
Selected Projects
Explore my work designing AI-native products, enterprise platforms,
and Web3 ecosystems that bridge complexity with intuitive experiences.
Explore my work designing AI-native products, enterprise platforms,
and Web3 ecosystems that bridge complexity with intuitive experiences.
Explore my work designing AI-native products, enterprise platforms, and Web3 ecosystems that bridge complexity with intuitive experiences.
Design Leader
AI
2026
Confidential AI Platform
Designed the full product UX of a confidential AI platform from consumer-facing conversational AI to infrastructure dashboards. Built from zero, for enterprises that can't afford to expose sensitive data.
Impact:
5 product surfaces designed from 0
25+ AI products benchmarked
0→1 in 4 months
Nasdaq-listed platform
Founding Designer
DeFi
2023
Decentralized Fundraising Protocol
Founding designer on a high-stakes fundraising protocol, designing every investor and founder flow from scratch across 18 months and 5 major product versions.
Impact:
$8M+ in capital deployed through flows designed from zero
85% deal success rate
4.8k users onboarded
5 major product versions shipped
Sr. Product Designer
Fintech
2022
Social Investing Platform
Led the complete redesign of a social investing platform, making complex portfolio mechanics accessible to users with no prior financial expertise.
Impact:
62% copy trading adoption in week one
180% growth in user transactions
52% user retention at 3 months
8k new users onboarded
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Design Leader
AI
2026
Confidential AI Platform
Designed the full product UX of a confidential AI platform from consumer-facing conversational AI to infrastructure dashboards. Built from zero, for enterprises that can't afford to expose sensitive data.
Impact:
5 product surfaces designed from 0
25+ AI products benchmarked
0→1 in 4 months
Nasdaq-listed platform
Founding Designer
DeFi
2023
Decentralized Fundraising Protocol
Founding designer on a high-stakes fundraising protocol, designing every investor and founder flow from scratch across 18 months and 5 major product versions.
Impact:
$8M+ in capital deployed through flows designed from zero
85% deal success rate
4.8k users onboarded
5 major product versions shipped
Sr. Product Designer
Fintech
2022
Social Investing Platform
Led the complete redesign of a social investing platform, making complex portfolio mechanics accessible to users with no prior financial expertise.
Impact:
62% copy trading adoption in week one
180% growth in user transactions
52% user retention at 3 months
8k new users onboarded
Sr. Product Designer
Fintech
2022
Social Investing Platform
Led the complete redesign of a social investing platform, making complex portfolio mechanics accessible to users with no prior financial expertise.
Impact:
62% copy trading adoption in week one
180% growth in user transactions
52% user retention at 3 months
8k new users onboarded
Design Leader
AI
2026
Confidential AI Platform
Designed the full product UX of a confidential AI platform from consumer-facing conversational AI to infrastructure dashboards. Built from zero, for enterprises that can't afford to expose sensitive data.
Impact:
5 product surfaces designed from 0
25+ AI products benchmarked
0→1 in 4 months
Nasdaq-listed platform
Founding Designer
Trust Design
2023
Decentralized Fundraising Protocol
Founding designer on a high-stakes fundraising protocol, designing every investor and founder flow from scratch across 18 months and 5 major product versions.
Impact:
$8M+ in capital deployed through flows designed from zero
85% deal success rate
4.8k users onboarded
5 major product versions shipped
Sr. Product Designer
Fintech
2022
Social Investing Platform
Led the complete redesign of a social investing platform, making complex portfolio mechanics accessible to users with no prior financial expertise.
Impact:
62% copy trading adoption in week one
180% growth in user transactions
52% user retention at 3 months
8k new users onboarded
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Design Philosophy
Designing Systems, Not Interfaces
Designing Systems, Not Interfaces
Every system I've designed had one thing in common: the people using it didn't need to understand how it worked. That's the job. Not making things look clean, but making the complexity disappear.
Every system I've designed had one thing in common: the people using it didn't need to understand how it worked. That's the job. Not making things look clean, but making the complexity disappear.
Research & Problem Understanding
I use AI to transform hours of raw research into structured insight in minutes, parsing interview transcripts, extracting patterns, and surfacing the real problem before I frame a single design question.
Research & Problem Understanding
I use AI to transform hours of raw research into structured insight in minutes, parsing interview transcripts, extracting patterns, and surfacing the real problem before I frame a single design question.
AI Synthesis & Strategic Framing
I use AI to stress-test product directions before committing to them, rapidly modeling system states, pressure-testing narratives, and reducing misalignment cycles with stakeholders.
AI Synthesis & Strategic Framing
I use AI to stress-test product directions before committing to them, rapidly modeling system states, pressure-testing narratives, and reducing misalignment cycles with stakeholders.
Exploration & Ideation
AI lets me exhaust the solution space before presenting options, generating and discarding directions fast to arrive at the strongest ones, with benchmarks drawn from outside the obvious category.
Exploration & Ideation
AI lets me exhaust the solution space before presenting options, generating and discarding directions fast to arrive at the strongest ones, with benchmarks drawn from outside the obvious category.
AI Research & Problem Understanding
I use AI to turn raw user data into structured insights. From interview preparation to transcript analysis, AI helps me identify patterns, extract verbatims, and clarify the real problem behind user needs.
AI Research & Problem Understanding
I use AI to turn raw user data into structured insights. From interview preparation to transcript analysis, AI helps me identify patterns, extract verbatims, and clarify the real problem behind user needs.
AI Research & Problem Understanding
I use AI to turn raw user data into structured insights. From interview preparation to transcript analysis, AI helps me identify patterns, extract verbatims, and clarify the real problem behind user needs.
Vibe Coding & Rapid Prototyping
I prototype directly in code using AI-assisted tools, collapsing the gap between design intent and testable interaction, without waiting for engineering bandwidth.
Vibe Coding & Rapid Prototyping
I prototype directly in code using AI-assisted tools, collapsing the gap between design intent and testable interaction, without waiting for engineering bandwidth.
Design System & Scalable Foundations
I use AI to generate variants at scale, flag inconsistencies across large component libraries, and document decisions automatically, so one designer can maintain coherence across multiple product surfaces simultaneously.
Design System & Scalable Foundations
I use AI to generate variants at scale, flag inconsistencies across large component libraries, and document decisions automatically, so one designer can maintain coherence across multiple product surfaces simultaneously.
Ship & Iterate
I use AI to parse usage patterns, detect friction signals, and generate hypothesis backlogs, turning post-launch data into a continuous design input rather than a periodic review.
Ship & Iterate
I use AI to parse usage patterns, detect friction signals, and generate hypothesis backlogs, turning post-launch data into a continuous design input rather than a periodic review.
AI Research & Problem Understanding
I use AI to turn raw user data into structured insights. From interview preparation to transcript analysis, AI helps me identify patterns, extract verbatims, and clarify the real problem behind user needs.
AI Research & Problem Understanding
I use AI to turn raw user data into structured insights. From interview preparation to transcript analysis, AI helps me identify patterns, extract verbatims, and clarify the real problem behind user needs.
AI Research & Problem Understanding
I use AI to turn raw user data into structured insights. From interview preparation to transcript analysis, AI helps me identify patterns, extract verbatims, and clarify the real problem behind user needs.
Career Evolution
From Enterprise UX to AI Products
From Enterprise UX to AI Products
A career spanning enterprise platforms, Web3 ecosystems and AI-native products.
A career spanning enterprise platforms, Web3 ecosystems and AI-native products.
2014 - 2017
2017 - 2021
2021 - 2025
2025 - Present
2014 - 2017
2017 - 2021
2021 - 2025
2025 - Present
Digital Agency
UX/UI Designer
Co-founded a digital agency and built fast execution habits across 25+ clients in healthcare, construction, e-gaming and professional services.
Digital Agency
UX/UI Designer
Co-founded a digital agency and built fast execution habits across 25+ clients in healthcare, construction, e-gaming and professional services.
Digital Agency
UX/UI Designer
Co-founded a digital agency and built fast execution habits across 25+ clients in healthcare, construction, e-gaming and professional services.
Enterprise
UX/UI Designer
Designed large-scale insurance platforms used by 1.5M+ policyholders. Led user research, journey mapping and prototyping while contributing to design systems in agile product teams.
Enterprise
UX/UI Designer
Designed large-scale insurance platforms used by 1.5M+ policyholders. Led user research, journey mapping and prototyping while contributing to design systems in agile product teams.
2025 - Present
Web3
Founding Designer
Founding designer for early-stage startups, building high-stakes financial products and decentralized platforms while making complex systems accessible to non-expert users.
Web3
Founding Designer
Founding designer for early-stage startups, building high-stakes financial products and decentralized platforms while making complex systems accessible to non-expert users.
2021 - 2025
AI Native
AI Design Leader
Designing confidential AI infrastructure and consumer-facing AI products. Leading UX strategy where the system has to stay invisible and the trust has to stay visible.
AI Native
AI Design Leader
Designing confidential AI infrastructure and consumer-facing AI products. Leading UX strategy where the system has to stay invisible and the trust has to stay visible.
2017 - 2021
2014 - 2017
Get In Touch
Let’s build the next generation of products
Let’s build the next generation of products
I partner with startups and teams to design AI-native products, from early concepts to scalable systems in production. Open to full-time roles and freelance missions.
I partner with startups and teams to design AI-native products, from early concepts to scalable systems in production. Open to full-time roles and freelance missions.
Raphaël.D
AI Design Leader
© 2026 Raphaël.D. All rights reserved.
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Raphaël.D
AI Design Leader
© 2026 Raphaël.D. All rights reserved.
Made from scratch in Framer with 💜
Raphaël.D
AI Design Leader
© 2026 Raphaël.D. All rights reserved.
Made from scratch in Framer with 💜