MATTHEW SCHWARTZ

I’m a UX and Product Designer with 15+ years at a SaaS and ecommerce platform company and 25+ years of experience across web, visual design, photography, video, and digital media. I turn requirements and stakeholder input into clear user flows, usable interfaces, and practical developer handoffs.

One of the things I enjoy most about UX is improving what already exists – identifying friction, inconsistencies, and opportunities, then refining the experience so it becomes clearer, easier, and more polished.

I create functional front-end prototypes through an AI-assisted workflow using Claude Code, VS Code, and GitHub, and I create interface designs and interactive prototypes in Figma. Across both workflows, I apply human UX judgment through visual review, testing, and iterative refinement, with close attention to interactions, content, states, edge cases, usability, and implementation quality.

UX and Product Design: Product improvement; interface and interaction design; responsive web and mobile experiences; information architecture; user flows; wireframes; usability principles and design heuristics.

AI-Assisted Functional Prototyping: Claude Code; functional front-end prototypes; iterative prompting, visual review, testing, troubleshooting, and refinement; living specifications and implementation plans; VS Code; GitHub.

Figma Interface Design and Prototyping: Interface design and interactive prototyping in Figma; high-fidelity UI; responsive layouts; reusable components and shared styles; interaction states and prototype behaviors.

Problem-Solving and Quality: UX evaluation, testing, and refinement; workflow improvement; pattern and inconsistency recognition; edge-case analysis; error handling; visual judgment; design consistency; implementation review.

Requirements, Delivery, and Communication: Requirements synthesis; specifications; user stories; acceptance criteria; developer collaboration; code-aware documentation; documented handoff; backend and API dependency identification; UX presentations; narrated demonstrations.

I bring 25+ years of multidisciplinary creative experience spanning web and graphic design, photography, and photo editing. That background has given me deep strengths in composition, hierarchy, visual communication, and polished digital execution.