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Product Designer — Agentic & AI-Native InterfacesProduct Designer — Agentic & AI-Native Interfaces

Product Designer with 16+ years shipping B2B/B2C interfaces, now focused on **agentic and AI-native products**. I design the surfaces where humans and autonomous systems collaborate — turning opaque models, protocols, and pipelines into interfaces people trust and act on. Track record at Credit Karma, Peloton, and DigiCred of driving 30%+ engagement growth as a systems thinker who designs *in code* with AI tooling (Cursor, Claude, Figma Make). I treat the model as a design material: prompts, confidence scores, agent state, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints are first-class parts of the UX.

Name
Paul Anderson Banks
Based
Charlotte, NC (Remote)
Email
paulbankss@gmail.com
LinkedIn
linkedin.com/in/paul-bankss
Portfolio
paulbanks.design

Available for senior/staff product design roles — full-time or contract. Remote. Available immediately.

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01 / FOCUS

I design the model as a material.I design the model as a material.

Prompts, confidence scores, agent state, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints are first-class parts of the UX — not afterthoughts bolted onto a chat box.

Agent UX patterns

human-in-the-loop checkpoints, confidence/uncertainty display, and progressive trust (mining/pending/confirmed status models, AI compatibility scoring).

LLM & generative UI

prompt-driven interfaces, AI prompt engineering, and large language model (LLM) UI for screening, matching, and threat-detection workflows.

Design-in-code

prototyping and shipping with Cursor AI, Claude, Figma Make, and Three.js rather than handing off static mocks.

Systems translation

making complex, non-deterministic systems (AI threat detection, blockchain verification, financial data) legible and trustworthy for non-expert operators.

02 / EXPERIENCE

Thirteen years, shipped.Thirteen years, shipped.

  1. Iron Link Intel AIAI / Agentic

    Defense Intelligence Platform

    March 2026 – Present · Remote

    Lead Product Designer (Contract)

    • Leading end-to-end product design for an OSINT and AI threat-detection platform serving defense and intelligence operators, including active deployment with the U.S. Department of War.
    • Designing operator-facing agentic workflows that surface model reasoning and keep a human in the loop on high-stakes threat assessments.
  2. DigiCredAI / Agentic

    Blockchain Document Verification

    November 2025 – February 2026 · Remote

    Founding Product Designer (Contract)

    • Led UX/UI strategy for a decentralized platform using blockchain to immutably verify documents and academic transcripts.
    • Designed the end-to-end "Trustless Verification" protocol, translating complex SHA-256 hashing and blockchain confirmation steps into a user-friendly status dashboard, increasing user trust scores by 40%.
    • Architected the "Digital Locker" interface to mint, store, and share tokenized transcripts via decentralized storage (IPFS), reducing retrieval times by 90% versus legacy requests.
    • Streamlined multi-chain wallet connection (Ethereum/Solana), reducing "Connect Wallet" drop-off by 25%.
    • Built a "Mining/Pending/Confirmed" status pattern with smart-contract engineers to visualize gas fees and transaction states, reducing support tickets by 35%.
    • Established the DigiCred design system (hash keys, block explorers, cryptographic signatures), accelerating frontend velocity by 20%.
  3. MustWantsAI / Agentic

    PropTech / Asset Management

    June 2024 – August 2025 · Remote

    Founding Product Designer, Mobile (Contract)

    • Designed an "AI Compatibility Score" interface that reached an ≥85% acceptance rate (users favorited homes the model rated >8.0), proving the value of algorithmic asset matching.
    • Reframed complex real-estate data into intuitive discovery flows, reducing task completion time by 25% and boosting engagement by 30%.
    • Optimized the "Offer Submission" flow, cutting the average tours needed before an offer by ≥30%.
    • Drove a ≥3% platform-attributed sales conversion rate by designing a high-trust closing interface for high-value asset transfers.
    • Integrated Jira with Mixpanel to track interaction with financial data points, improving sprint efficiency by 20% through data-driven prioritization.
  4. Credit Karma

    FinTech

    August 2021 – June 2024 · Remote

    Lead / Sr. Product Designer

    • Redesigned the Subscription Dashboard for millions of users, improving navigation efficiency by 20% and boosting subscription upsell conversions by 15%.
    • Spearheaded A/B testing for "Personalized Financial Insights," achieving a 17% engagement uplift and 13% increase in feature adoption by visualizing credit-health data more effectively.
    • Integrated Jira with Amplitude analytics, reducing design iteration cycles by 18% via real-time visibility into user financial behaviors and drop-off points.
    • Ran heuristic evaluations on banking flows, cutting error rates by 15% and improving task success by 22%.
    • Led two cross-functional pods across time zones, boosting sprint velocity by 25%.
  5. Peloton

    Consumer Tech / Gamification

    August 2023 – June 2024 · Remote

    Product Designer (Contract / Concurrent)

    • Gamified the LANEBREAK multiplayer experience with interaction loops that increased session duration by 20%.
    • Designed leaderboard and reward systems, increasing completion rates by 15% and retention by 12%.
    • Contributed 25% of components to the Peloton design system, cutting UI development time by 18%.
  6. Ancestry DNA & Health

    Data Privacy & Identity

    June 2020 – March 2021 · Remote

    Senior Designer

    • Designed product cards that reduced session abandonment by 10% through clear, non-alarming visualization of sensitive data insights.
    • Standardized cross-platform design system components, reducing UI development time by 15% and handoff errors by 20%.
    • Optimized user flows with Segment analytics, reducing onboarding friction by 8%.
  7. iHeartJane

    E-commerce / Regulated Marketplace

    March 2017 – March 2020 · Remote

    Founding Product Designer

    • Designed compliant UI/UX flows for high-regulation retail, driving 15% customer acquisition via intuitive kiosk experiences.
    • Led dynamic-pricing UI experimentation, increasing AOV by 10% and driving a $2M revenue increase.
    • Built and scaled the Jane design system across iOS and web, reducing handoff errors by 25%.
  8. Walmart

    E-Commerce Scale

    June 2017 – June 2018 · Remote

    Contract Sr. Art Director (Concurrent)

    • Designed "happy-path" checkout scenarios that cut cart abandonment by 15% and increased AOV by 10%.
    • Owned the UX roadmap for category entry points, driving a 12% increase in product discoverability.
    • Integrated Jira with Adobe Analytics, reducing design revision cycles by 20%.
  9. Sony PlayStation

    System Architecture

    June 2015 – June 2017 · San Francisco, CA

    Lead Product Designer

    • Unified the PS4 system experience, reducing interface inconsistencies by 20% and boosting user satisfaction by 12%.
    • Led A/B testing for PSVR interfaces, improving readability and spatial interaction models and increasing engagement by 15%.
    • Mentored junior designers on systems thinking, improving team output by 10%.
  10. Samsung

    IoT & Smart Devices

    June 2013 – June 2015 · San Francisco, CA

    Senior Concept Designer

    • Designed multi-modal (voice + touch) interfaces for Samsung's Smart Oven, increasing task completion rates by 18%.
    • Led the UX roadmap for connected devices, driving 10% feature adoption by simplifying hardware/software connection protocols.

03 / TOOLKIT

What I work with.What I work with.

AI & Agentic
  • LLM UI
  • AI Prompt Engineering
  • Human-in-the-Loop Design
  • AI Compatibility / Confidence Scoring
  • Cursor AI
  • Claude AI
  • Figma Make
  • UX Pilot
  • Generative UI
  • Three.js
Design Tools
  • Figma
  • Sketch
  • Rive
  • Framer
  • Protopie
  • Principle
  • Miro
  • Zeplin
Research & Analytics
  • Mixpanel
  • Amplitude
  • Hotjar
  • Google Analytics
  • A/B Testing
  • User Flows
  • Heuristic Evaluation
Web3 & Blockchain
  • dApp Design
  • Wallet Integration (MetaMask
  • Rainbow
  • WalletConnect)
  • Smart Contract UI
  • Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT)
  • Verifiable Credentials (VCs)
  • Gas Fee Optimization
Leadership & Strategy
  • Design Systems
  • Design Ops
  • Agile/Scrum
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Cross-Functional Team Leadership
  • Sprint Planning

04 / EDUCATION

Where it started.Where it started.

  • BFA, Interaction DesignVirginia Commonwealth University
  • Interaction Design CertificateStanford University

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