Ryan Tang

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

Figmav0CursorClaudeFramerMazeOptimal WorkshopDovetailNotionLinear

Currently available

Let’s build
something real.

Open to new product design roles. Remote-first, Vancouver-based.