Hi, I’m Ryan.

Senior product designer for complex enterprise tools. Over the past decade, I have tracked down messy workflow problems, designed the interface, and shipped working code to the browser.

B2B SaaS Design Systems AI Workflows

Selected work

Three shipped product projects, plus a look at how I built this portfolio.

D-Tools Cloud executive BI dashboard showing sales results, close rate, sales cycle gauge, and trend reports
62% Multi-Dashboard Adoption

Custom Dashboards & AI Summaries

Replaced Monday morning spreadsheet exports with role-based dashboard templates. Users built their own views for dispatch and margins. Sustained platform views jumped 71%.

Core Craft Modular KPI Widgets · Drag-and-Drop Canvas
AI Experience 1-Click Summaries Bound to Visible Data
Real Outcome 62% Saved Multiple Views · +71% Daily Usage
B2B SaaS AI UX Data Viz
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i4cp Member Portal AI conversational search redesign showing grounded takeaways, citations, and conversation history
+500% Ahri Sessions

i4cp Member Portal & Research Discovery

Cleaned up a bloated research catalog for HR executives. I paired a simple drill-down menu with an AI search box on the homepage. Daily activity doubled in two months.

Architecture Progressive IA · Unified Search Discovery
AI Interface Ahri Conversational Assistant · Source Citations
Engagement +500% Research Sessions · 2× Daily Activity
Enterprise HR SaaS Information Architecture Conversational AI
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Real-time equipment asset tracking, serial numbers, stock quantities, and PO statuses in D-Tools Cloud
+8% ARR · Stalled Enterprise Deals Unblocked

Inventory, Purchasing & Receiving

Tied warehouse receiving directly to active job schedules so teams knew exactly which parts had arrived and which jobs had claimed them. Proving we could track hardware end-to-end unblocked six-figure pilot deals and drove an 8% lift in platform ARR.

Architecture Connected Ledger · Purchasing to Staging
MVP Scope PO Receiving · Stock Conflict Alerts
Enterprise Unblocked Pilot Deals · Dual-Track UX
0→1 Product Workflow Automation Supply Chain
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Design token system, semantic HTML architecture, and browser testing for Ryan Schmidt portfolio
Lab · Designed & Built in Code

Building My Portfolio in Code

Built this site in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, including reusable page patterns and an AI assistant that retrieves context from my project notes.

Approach Semantic HTML · Tokenized CSS · Vanilla ES6
Assistant Context Retrieval · Grounded Project Notes
Workflow Browser Prototyping · Responsive & Keyboard Testing
Design Tokens Prototyping in Code
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Design principles

How I think about systems, prototyping in code, and building software that holds up under pressure.

01

Systems Over One-Offs

Enterprise UI falls apart when teams start inventing one-off buttons and random custom forms. I build tokens and component libraries that keep the interface consistent so engineers can ship fast without fighting design debt.

02

Prototyping in the Browser

Static Figma mockups hide latency, responsive quirks, and real keyboard friction. I build interactive prototypes in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript so we can test how an interaction feels before engineering writes production code.

03

Grounded in Real Use

Good design proves itself in daily user habits, not Figma presentations. Every project here tracks back to verified operational changes: eliminating manual Excel exports, unblocking customer pilots, or speeding up daily task completion.