For 25+ years I've shipped mobile-first interfaces. Today I engineer intelligent, adaptive experiences as an AI × UX expert — pairing Claude, Claude Code, Claude Design, DeepSeek, GitHub Copilot, UX Pilot, and Figma Make into every stage of the design process, from research synthesis to shippable prototype code.
The interface has not changed — but how we ship it has. The teams who pair human judgment with AI agents move 4× faster, ship 60% fewer bugs, and discover usability problems weeks before launch instead of weeks after.
AI summarizes hundreds of interviews, support tickets, and analytics into ranked insights in minutes — not weeks.
Claude synthesizes behavioral patterns into persona drafts and JTBD statements I can validate, not invent from scratch.
Generative tools accelerate exploration; I direct, edit, and curate — taste stays human, throughput goes up.
AI translates Figma to production-grade HTML/CSS/React. Handoff stops being a wall and becomes a conversation.
The product literally watches itself: AI flags friction, suggests micro-tweaks, and continuously improves the experience.
What used to take weeks of prototyping now takes hours. AI handles the repetitive 70% — the boilerplate, the variants, the documentation — so I spend my time on the 30% only a human can do: judgment, taste, and empathy.
Claude can ingest 800 pages of research, 10,000 customer reviews, and a year of analytics — then surface the three patterns that actually matter. No more design decisions based on the loudest stakeholder in the room.
AI pairs with me on the prototype code itself — accessibility checks, edge cases, responsive states, performance budgets. The design that ships looks like the design that was approved, because the gap closed.
Claude Code reads my whole codebase, edits multiple files atomically, runs its own tests, and stops when it's actually done — not when it thinks it is.
I hand Claude a Figma frame, a screenshot, or a napkin sketch. It hands back HTML, CSS, and JS that responds, animates, and passes WCAG contrast.
Drop 200 interview transcripts into a project. Claude clusters themes, tags severity, drafts personas, and cites the quote each insight came from.
I use the Claude Agent SDK to build product-specific assistants — adjusters, underwriters, dev-center guides — that live inside real applications.
Every one of these was designed and engineered end-to-end with Claude Code + Claude Design in the workflow — from research to interactive prototype to production HTML.
A live cockpit where an AI assistant triages P&C claims: reads FNOL, extracts entities, drafts coverage decisions, and walks the adjuster through every step. Built with the Claude Agent SDK, streaming responses, and a Figma-designed conversational UI.
An always-on cartoon-Craig assistant that lives on-page and coaches devs through API sandbox, key generation, and code samples. Persona-driven, memory-enabled, wired to product docs. On this site right now.
End-to-end AI UX design across the Fizook portfolio — generative assistance and intelligent workflows baked into every administrative-service interface. Claude drives content generation, form pre-fill, and inline explanations.
Ingest 100+ Zoom transcripts, JIRA tickets, and survey CSVs. Output: ranked themes, tagged personas, cited quotes, and a stakeholder-ready readout. Turned 3-week research sprints into 3-day ones.
The developer-portal assistant that walks bank engineers through ACH testing, sandbox setup, and endpoint discovery — explaining ambiguous error codes in plain English with concrete next steps.
An assistant that lives inside the design-system site and answers "which component do I use for X?" with the actual token, the actual snippet, and a live preview. Ships with new library versions automatically.
I pair with Claude Code every day — from prototype iteration to A11y audits to production deploys. Claude Design turns Figma into responsive HTML in the same session. And when a client needs an AI feature inside their product, I use the Claude Agent SDK to build it, ship it, and iterate on it live. This is the future of UX Engineering, and I'm already there.
I'm integrating Claude, DeepSeek, Copilot, and UX Pilot into the daily workflow — automating user research synthesis, persona drafting, wireframing, content generation, and stakeholder presentations. The insights surface faster; the designs ship better.
25 years of mobile-first design. 85% of users live on smart devices — I design like it.
Designed in Figma, coded in HTML/Angular. The front-end prototype became the blueprint for Fidelity's XTRAC WorkHub — used today by 70,000 employees.
At Fidelity, Zions, and SVB I built and led the design system practice from scratch — research, HTML/CSS prototype, governance, and team enablement.
Figma to HTML/CSS to production. Developers focus on the API; I make sure the experience that lands on screen is the one we designed.
Real-time collaboration, prototyping, design tokens, and Dev Mode code-gen — Figma is the new design IDE.
A pro-bono redesign for the University of New Mexico — the data portal used by ecological scientists to research agriculture and animal behavior.
Prototyped UnderArmour.com in Axure and redesigned the Product Promotion data tables — customizable columns, exportable metric charts.
Led a Figma-first design team building the transactional gateway for venture-funded startups — remote deposit, payments, statements, fraud prevention baked in.
At Zions Bancorp I authored the end-to-end software delivery process: BI → Design → Usability → QA → Deploy → Monitor → Maintain.
From start-ups to Fortune 50 — leading UX strategy, design, and engineering teams.
Principal UX Designer for Landesk's Asset Lifecycle Manager. Read the article →
For redesigning and coding the UX of SVB's award-winning API Portal and Sandbox for easy API creation and testing.
Excellence in UX engineering for the public release of Avocent's Software License Manager — a Progressive Web Application.
Intuitive UX Award. Scored 10/10 for ease of use and intuitive design — Fidelity Investments XTRAC.
"I've worked with Craig on numerous web applications over the past 20 years. He introduced cutting-edge UI/UX processes to Fidelity and used them to design and develop three of Fidelity's most visible applications — XTRAC, New Investment Accounts, Mutual Funds Evaluator, and Active Trader Pro. These applications brought millions in new customer investments."
"Craig is a rare combination of skills. He's a user experience designer with great engineering capability — or conversely, an excellent engineer with great UX ability. He has shown an amazing ability to learn and use new tools, to the degree that he can teach the group how to use the tools he just learned."
"I highly endorse Craig as a UX Product Design Manager. He's been my manager for years and has consistently demonstrated exceptional skills that have contributed to the success of our team and projects. He has a deep understanding of UX principles and best practices, and he's an effective communicator and problem solver."
"Having Craig on our team gave engineers peace of mind — we could focus exclusively on code without worrying about the overall look and feel of our products. His penchant for building applications that delivered a great user experience made him a unique asset to the organization."
"After I hired Craig at LANDesk, he quickly gained the respect of the human factors, development, and QA teams. While others were creating prototypes for developers to build, Craig built the actual UI that shipped in the product — constructed so devs could hook their code directly to it. One of the biggest PR wins for the team."
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