Before the logos do their thing... I go by Paul, a designer on the spectrum.
Product, brand, design, now hooked on frontend. Wired to notice how brands talk. A sample of collaborators below.
how it started
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
- Advertising2009-2011Associate Creative Director
LEARNING LAB
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.
- Claude
- WebGL
- Canvas
- Motion
Brand Voice Engine
AI Brand Ambassador: Your voice, made portable.
900K
engagement
- Cursor
- Claude
- Vercel
- Next.js
GiT Design Drops
ReposAgentic magazine for trending repos, design skills, and featured artist.
2.4M
Social Reach
- Claude
- Cursor
- Next.js
- Figma
Coming Soon
Keeps me working on ideas.
HUMAN EXTRACTION
What do people actually do?
Output
A behavioral map of real patterns, friction, and “make-or-break” moments.
How
- Observe real usage in the wild, not stated preference in a script.
- Extract the recurring human patterns the product has to respect.
Design/Tech Stack
- Dovetail
- Gemini
- Claude
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.