Design Executive and Systems Builder
Executive design leadership with builder's hands. I lead product design, UX research, brand systems, and AI-enabled workflows that help teams move faster with stronger taste, clearer systems, and measurable product impact.
Head of Product Design at FlavorCloud. Built FC-Design-Lab, Compass, and Brikks Studio AI. Increased average app engagement from under 1 minute to nearly 4 minutes per session.
Leadership Thesis
The most effective design leaders shape the systems behind product quality: research, decision-making, brand governance, prototyping, AI-enabled workflows, and the standards teams use every day.
Systems
These systems are examples of design practice turned into infrastructure: tools and workflows that help teams produce higher-quality work with more consistency and less translation loss.
Prototype Infrastructure
Problem
Traditional Figma prototypes created translation loss and slowed product validation.
System
Built FC-Design-Lab, a React/Vite full-fidelity prototyping system for realistic product testing.
Result
Roughly 80% of product validation now happens through coded prototypes.
Brand Operations
Problem
Branded collateral and recurring content creation lacked consistency and speed.
System
Built Compass, an AI-powered workflow for governed document and asset generation.
Result
Accelerates recurring creative production while protecting brand standards.
Presentation Infrastructure
Problem
Enterprise presentations frequently drift away from approved brand systems.
System
Built Brikks Studio AI, a PPTX-native generation platform with embedded governance.
Result
Creates presentation assets that remain aligned to brand standards by default.
Product Impact
At FlavorCloud, my UX/UI work helped increase average app engagement from under 1 minute to nearly 4 minutes per session.
Selected Work
A curated path through leadership work, system building, AI-enabled workflows, and enterprise product design.
Product design leadership and UX/UI improvements tied to measurable engagement growth.
Full-fidelity prototyping infrastructure for faster product decisions.
AI-powered brand operations for governed content and asset generation.
PPTX-native presentation infrastructure with embedded brand governance.
Enterprise product design for Monster Energy, Paramount Pictures, and Technicolor, spanning operational systems, knowledge architecture, and productivity platforms.
Speaking
I have spoken at UXDX and have been invited again for their Level Up series.
About
I am Head of Product Design at FlavorCloud with close to 15 years of experience leading across product design, UX research, UI, brand, marketing, print collateral, design systems, and AI-enabled workflows.
I have managed a remote team of 5 designers, built internal systems that change how design work gets produced, and bring a published illustrator's sense of craft to product and brand work.
Closing Philosophy
Taste becomes valuable at scale when it is encoded into reusable patterns, shared standards, product logic, and workflows that help teams make better decisions without slowing down.
Contact
Open to Head of Design, Head of Product Design, VP of Design, Director of Design, Creative Director, and Staff or Principal Product Designer opportunities for the right team.
ivantrainer@gmail.com
