I design the structure first. The screens come after.
I led design at 834 Labs, where I built the design system behind five products and the multi-role platform that admins, agents and sub-agents all work in. I build a lot of what I design, so the handoff is real.
Data-heavy B2B software, multi-role platforms and design systems
Over ten years across editorial, real estate and health insurance SaaS
Figma, Claude Code, React, HTML, CSS and JS
vanngographic@gmail.com
I do not open Figma until the problem makes sense
I start with the permission model, the data architecture, and the user’s mental model of what they are trying to do. On multi-role platforms, navigation is the product, so the structure has to be solid before the visuals can land.
I use AI heavily for research synthesis, prototyping and proof-of-concept builds. I set the concept and the system, AI drafts and builds inside it, and every product call is mine.
- STRUCTURE BEFORE VISUALSNavigation, permissions and data hierarchy come before the first frame.
- EVIDENCE OVER OPINIONEvery major decision needs a reason that is not “I think.”
- SHIP A SYSTEMThe real output is a system engineers build new features from.
- DENSE, NOT COMPLICATEDPatterns consistent enough that users move through the data without thinking.
Print does not iterate
Before product, I spent six years at Living Magazine laying out feature spreads and managing print production. You get it right before it goes to press, or it is wrong in every copy. The print years are why my dashboards look finished. The product years are why they work.
- 2024 TO 2026
- Lead UI/UX Designer, 834 Labs. Design for a health insurance SaaS platform with 10,000+ users across five roles. Built its first design system and shipped five products.
- 2025 TO NOW
- Independent product work: co-founder of Vested, and at InnoGEV the ChairLine barbershop platform, the QueueReaper auction tool and the company brand.
- 2024
- UI/UX Design Certification, Springboard, 700+ hours.
- 2022 TO 2024
- Graphic Designer, Servitas. Rebranded the bid suite, contributing to a 75 percent win rate on competitive proposals.
- 2021 TO 2022
- Graphic Designer, Texas Title, including the seller guide on the print page.
- 2015 TO 2021
- Junior to Senior Designer, Living Magazine. Six years of print production and editorial layout.
- EDUCATION
- BFA in Graphic Design, The Art Institute of Dallas.
A B2B product with real structural depth
Multi-role platforms, data-heavy workflows, legacy systems that need rebuilding rather than reskinning. The domain matters less to me than whether the team takes design seriously early.
I am most useful before the scope is locked. I push back when I need to, with something to back it up: when stakeholders kept adding content to a client homepage, I used agent research to show which actions were getting buried and how many clicks it added to contracting.
Hiring for a complex B2B product? Let’s talk.
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