Ryan Burke

Product Design Leader · Philadelphia

Designing systems that scale
across any domain.

Design lead with nearly a decade across consumer marketplaces, B2B infrastructure, developer tools, and AI products. I've built three design systems from scratch, and most recently the AI tooling that keeps one running. Adjunct Professor of UX Design at Temple University.

Selected Work

01

Gopuff

2022-2026

UX Design Lead

Selected by executive leadership to direct the Consumer UX team on an interim basis, with 9 direct reports across design and research. Founded Gopuff's native and web design systems. Drove a web redesign that lifted weekly orders +49% and weekly revenue +44% YoY. Created the storefront template builder behind brand partner pages for Starbucks, Pokémon, Pepsi, NFL, and Tom Brady Exclusives. Automated the design system audit with Claude Code and Figma MCP, and built the AI skills the whole org uses to run its UX lifecycle.

Design SystemsLeadershipPlatform RedesignService DesignView case study →
02

Drift (Gopuff)

2026

Design System Audit Tool

Built a tool that checks a live page or a prototype against the Figma tokens of the design system and marks every element that does not match, with the token it should use. A page audit went from about a day by hand to about two minutes.

Design SystemsDeveloper ToolingFigma MCPBuilt with AIView case study →
03

NetBox Labs

2026

Contract Product Designer

One of two designers on the SaaS console built on top of open source NetBox, the most widely used network infrastructure platform. Ran the first design sprint at NetBox Labs, on onboarding, then built the direction as a coded prototype with 42 panels. Also founded the console design system and designed the platform's first public API key management UI.

OnboardingDesign SprintNetwork InfrastructurePrototyping with AIView case study →
04

CounseliQ

2025

Founding Product Designer

Sole designer at a legal AI startup, reporting to the CEO. Ran ethnographic research with paralegals and attorneys. Created the ROA Framework, the design principle behind every screen in the product.

0→1AI Product DesignEthnographic ResearchConversational UIView case study →
05

dbt Labs

2021-2022

Product Designer

Designed the surfaces that helped data engineers justify paying for dbt Cloud: job scheduling and monitoring, the Activity Dashboard, audit logs, and an account model for multiple orgs.

Developer ToolsComplex WorkflowsEnterprise ArchitectureTechnical UsersView case study →
06

SevOne (IBM)

2016-2021

UX Strategist

Redesigned Data Insight, the reporting and visualization layer sales credited during SevOne's growth from $57M to $114M. Built the company's first design system and created the front-end migration framework that went after the source of 80% of the product's defects.

Atomic Design SystemEnterprise B2BData VisualizationResearchView case study →

Currently

Building a Multi-Agent
UX Prototyping Platform

Specialized AI agents that create design-system-compliant prototypes from screenshots and Figma designs. Exploring the intersection of AI and design tooling.