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I'm a UX/UI engineer focused on AI products. The research, the design, the React that ends up in production. Same person, start to finish.
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Selected work
2023–2024 AI SaaS
V1.8 had the right idea with AI transcription, but everything after the recording stopped was manual. There was no review step, and the requirements ended up scattered across four document silos.
2025 Accessibility tooling
Free accessibility scanners miss what actually fails in production, and paid tools start at $500 a month while still burying the fix 14 clicks deep. Then WCAG 2.2 landed and most tools hadn't caught up.
EdTech · mobile + web
BrainTech
Redesign v2
2024 EdTech
The original product leaned on corporate patterns, muted colors, and adult information density, so teens were quietly checking out. It had been built for the parent paying rather than the kid actually using it.
2023 E-commerce
A premium roaster stuck on a generic Shopify theme. The product pages showed a photo and a price with no story, and nothing about the store gave a first-time visitor a reason to come back.
Rebrand · 6-page site
ThunderBall Scout
Conquest Customs
2022 Automotive · Rebrand
A custom shop with 20 years of equity was launching a new flagship product. The instinct was to retire the old name and lead with the new one, but the survey said the loyalists' trust in Conquest Customs was the most valuable asset the business had.
About
On most teams, designers hand work off to developers. Developers then rebuild what they got, and what actually ships rarely matches what was designed. I do both jobs myself, so the design that ships is the same one I drew.
More about how I work →skill depth
figma community
Six free resources on Figma Community: UI kits, templates, design system files, and a plugin. Used by over 17,000 designers in their own work, and built to production standard rather than stripped-down demos.
Contact
I'm open to full-time roles, contract work, and advisory engagements. I'm especially interested in early-stage AI products and SaaS platforms, where the design and the engineering have to overlap.
hello@vaskendesign.com