About
I design for complex domains and experts users where... SOMETHING.
My career has been spent designing for skeptical, high-stakes users — drug discovery scientists, pharma project managers, enterprise analysts. These are people who can’t afford to trust a tool that hides its reasoning. That constraint has shaped everything about how I work.
I operate at a principal scope: from defining whether the right problem is being solved, to shipping the feature, to building the prototype that proves a new direction is worth pursuing. I’ve built functional agentic prototypes that changed roadmaps. I’ve run research studies and led design strategy that determined platform architecture. I’ve shipped GenAI features under enterprise account renewal pressure.
I’m based in Vancouver. I work best in environments where design is taken seriously as a strategic discipline that drives outcomes.
Experience
BenchSci
Lead Product Designer
Nov 2021 – Nov 2025
Promoted to lead product designer in early 2024. Sole designer for Experiment Validation platform through company-wide GenAI pivot. Shipped company's first GenAI features. 8-figure enterprise partnerships and +100K downmarket users.
Searchspring
Product Designer
Dec 2020 – Nov 2021
Led design through post-acquisition integration. Unified design systems across three acquired products. +20% customer conversion rates.
CodeMode Inc.
UX Designer & Researcher
Jul 2019 – Aug 2020
Led enterprise ERP redesign for $2.6B pharma client (SGS). 50+ interviews, 400+ survey respondents. +31% Improvement to task success rates for core user tasks.
Ryan Tang Design
Fractional Design Partner
2016 – Present
Strategic design and product consulting for startups, healthcare, and non-profits.
Skills
AI Product Design
Designing GenAI interfaces, agentic UX, LLM-native features
Product Strategy
Problem framing, MVP scoping, cross-functional alignment
User Research
Contextual inquiry, card sorting, tree testing, 400+ participant surveys
Interaction Design
Complex enterprise systems, hybrid chat interfaces
Design Systems
Post-acquisition unification, component libraries, SOPs
Prototyping
Functional builds with v0, Cursor, Claude for concept validation
Tools
Currently available
Let’s build
something real.
Open to new product design roles. Remote-first, Vancouver-based.