Twenty years shaping retail, commerce, and healthcare experiences for Dick's Sporting Goods, Home Depot, Mattress Firm, and beyond. Embedded where design meets the business.
A native iOS app for Coptic Orthodox deacons. Daily hymns, lectionary, and rank-by-rank training. Self-initiated.
Product experience design, marketing strategy, and brand for a quiet AR contact lens. Marketing site, in-lens HUD, and iOS companion.
End-to-end retail experience across mobile commerce, loyalty, and store tech.
End-to-end redesign of the largest US mattress retailer.
Zero-to-one mobile app helping people live better by sleeping better.
Bridging online & offline for complex, made-to-order products.
A new product offering for a large UK insurance broker.
A 300-component mobile UI kit built to accelerate consulting engagements.
How I facilitate design thinking workshops as a design consultant.
Mobile app design for a Fortune 100 pharmaceutical client.
I've spent twenty years embedded inside product, service, and experience teams, shaping the work from first principles to shipped pixels.
My best work sits at the seam where design, engineering, and business strategy meet. I translate ambiguous ambitions into concrete interfaces, systems, and operating models, plus the rituals that keep them alive after I leave.
I work in small, senior configurations, most often as a fractional Chief Product Designer. I'm most useful to teams in the first 90 days of a zero-to-one, or in the quarter before a major redesign ships.
Lately I'm focused on how AI and machine learning reshape product design: agentic interfaces, generative workflows, and the new patterns emerging as teams build with large language models. I help product teams translate these capabilities into experiences people actually want to use.
Open to senior design leadership roles, fractional CPD engagements, and selected advisory.
ryanmarfone@gmail.com→