Senior UI/UX Product Designer / 16 yrs

Joel Connell

I architect systems, not just screens.

Sixteen years making dense technical products feel obvious.

Domains
Enterprise SaaS · DevTools · Embedded
Method
Research → IA → systems → ship
Status
Burbank, CA · Open to work

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Selected work

Skills & expertise

Core Design & IA
Information ArchitectureSystems ModelingUX DesignUI DesignWireframingUser FlowsInteraction Design
Research & Evaluation
User ResearchUsability TestingHeuristic EvaluationData-driven Design Analytics
AI-Native Workflows
ClaudeClaude CodeFigma MCPv0Digital Prototyping
Technical & Leadership
Agile LeadershipHTML/CSSWeb Accessibility (WCAG)Cross-functional Strategy

Tools I use daily

  • Figma
  • Claude Code
  • v0
  • Gemini
  • Google AI Studio
  • NotebookLM
  • FigJam
  • Miro

How I think about it

01

Cognitive lens

A Human Factors Psychology lens on how people think, navigate, and process information — turned into structural models that solve real business problems.

02

Systems thinking

Scalable design systems and information architectures that align multi-disciplinary teams and hold up as products grow.

03

AI-accelerated delivery

Enterprise Figma systems paired with AI-native prototyping — Claude, v0 — to validate concepts fast and hand off without friction.

About

Joel Connell

I don't just design screens — I architect systems. Sixteen-plus years across enterprise SaaS, developer tools, and embedded engineering — including automotive ECU frameworks — turning dense technical data into interfaces teams actually adopt.

A Human Factors Psychology foundation, expert-level information architecture, and Figma design systems that keep multi-disciplinary teams aligned and handoffs clean.

Get in touch

Let's make something worth using.

A role to fill, a project to explore, or just design talk — my inbox is open.

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