GiT Design Drops
An agentic magazine that reads GitHub for designers. Agents assemble the drop; I edit the cut. Stills freeze Issue 48. The live player always opens the current one.
2.4MSocial Reach
- Claude
- Cursor
- Next.js
- Figma
Product Designer, Artists
Pushing concepts,the canvas is aplayground
Iron Link Intel
Defense intelligence
Lead product designer · Brand & Product
DigiCred
EdTech · Crypto
Lead product designer · 0→1
MustWants
Real estate
Lead product designer · Founding
Credit Karma
Fintech
Sr / Lead product designer · Growth & Research
- Intermediate20 - 56Expert30 - 66Resistance0Advanced24 - 60
Peloton
Connected fitness
Product designer · Lanebreak UX/UI
iHeartJane
Cannabis e-commerce
Founding product designer · Marketplace
Full client roster
- Iron Link Intel2025-2026Lead Product Designer
- DigiCred2025-2026Founding Product Designer
- MustWants2024-2025Founding Product Designer
- Credit Karma2021-2024Lead / Senior Product Designer
- Peloton2023-2024Senior Product Designer
- frog2021-2021Senior Interaction Designer
- Ancestry2020-2021Senior Designer
- iHeartJane2017-2020Founding Product Designer
- Walmart2017-2018Senior Art Director
- Sony PlayStation2015-2017Lead Product Designer
- Samsung2013-2015Senior Concept Designer
- Advertising2011-2013Associate Creative Director
- Advertising2009-2011Art Director
Products I'm building in code, shipped in the open. Each one opens to the numbers most people hide.
Hero Shader Studio
A live pixel-art shader, connected directly to the homepage.
0hero swapspaulbanks.design/lab/studio
Brand Voice Engine
AI Brand Ambassador: Your voice, made portable.
900Kengagement
Tether
Work in progress
Still in the lab. A wrecker on a line, houses in a field, smash then rest or you drink.
Color & Noise
Work in progress
A visual studio in progress: compose with image, motion, sound, and signal.
Instrument
Work in progress
A playable visual-sound experiment. Make a response; I remix what comes back.
Pendulum nextStill working in the open.
01 / Challenge
Challenge
Product Challenger
Frame the product tension before a solution takes shape.
- problem.mdWhat is broken, for whom, and why now
- evidence.mdSignals, assumptions, and risks
- Skills in play
- Research synthesis · Opportunity framing
- Tools
- Notes · References
02 / Direction
Direction
Design Director
Turn the signal into an experience worth building.
- design-brief.mdIntent, hierarchy, and the decision to make
- Skills in play
- Remixing SKILL.md files · Exploring outputs
- Tools
- Figma · Paint + canvas
03 / Shape
Shape
UX + Content + Design Systems
Make the journey, language, and system cohere.
- journey.mdMoments, states, and wayfinding
- content.mdLanguage, tokens, and interaction rules
- Skills in play
- Content design · Systems thinking
- Tools
- Figma · Design tokens
04 / Make + Test
Make + Test
Design Engineer + Creative Technologist
Turn the brief into a working experience.
- build-plan.mdConstraints + acceptance criteria
- handoff.mdBuild-ready decision record
- Preview + testsLive behavior, desktop, mobile, accessibility
- Skills in play
- Interaction prototyping · Design engineering · Accessibility
- Tools
- Codex · Cursor · VS Code · Qwen
05 / Critique + Decide
You decide
Critique + Decide
Design Critic + QA + You
Decide what ships, what changes, and what gets re-briefed.
- review-notes.mdTest evidence and the next call
- Skills in play
- Creative critique · Test synthesis · Decision making
- Tools
- Browser · Feedback
Learn → direct again
One machine-readable contract, Design.md, compiles to the CSS variables every page here renders from. Humans read it. So do my agents.
Reading live values from the stylesheet…Mint acts. Apricot emphasizes. Blue links. Read live, not a snapshot.
Open the design system
Charlotte, NC · Remote
Paul Banks
Principal Product Designer
After 16+ years shipping product interfaces, I now design the surfaces where people and agents share a task: prompts, confidence, and the checkpoint where a human still decides.