Sup, I’m Rashaad.
Product Designer & Builder.
I love clean, purpose-driven design, the blockchain, and introducing people to 🔥 hip-hop. 14+ years designing and building 0→1 product at startups. These days I’m heavy into LLMs to design, prototype, and ship faster than ever.
Select work
A few I’m proud of. Full resume ↗
- 2021–2025
Synapticure's Internal Team Tools
Lead Product DesignerThe internal platform Synapticure's whole care team lives in. I pulled work scattered across Canvas, Sheets, and Customer.io into one system, then turned it into a framework PMs and engineers keep building on.
Core care platform - 2015–2018
Slant Summary Cards
Senior Product DesignerThe summary card was the heart of Slant. I owned it through four years of experiments, each one balancing community, visitors, SEO, and the business at the same time, plus the Guides experiment that grew out of it.
Core product unit - 2017
Slant Home
Senior Product DesignerMost people landed on Slant from a single question page and left confused about what it even was. I redesigned the home page to fix that first impression.
+89% new accounts
Side projects
Three products I designed and built with LLMs, teaching myself to build the system, not just design it.
- 2026
Finch
Founder / Designer / BuilderBuying a new-construction home, you pick thousands of dollars of finishes off a printed price sheet and just hope. Finch renders your real selections into photos of the actual home you're buying, so you upgrade what you can finally see. I built it because we lived it.
Live pilot - 2025–2026
Policy Canary
Founder / Designer / BuilderIt watches the FDA so small brands don't have to. When a rule changes, it tells you exactly which of your products it touches, by ingredient, with the deadline and what to do. The analysis runs on a multi-model LLM pipeline I built.
Live product - 2025
Cheft
Founder / Designer / BuilderA map of every restaurant run by a TV chef: Top Chef, Iron Chef, James Beard winners. All ~1,200 of them across 160+ cities, researched and kept honest by an LLM pipeline I built. It was my first real one.
Live product
More than pixels.
I spend entirely too much time designing; my work is my hobby. But it’s not all pushing pixels: I also love brazilian jiujitsu, weightlifting, gaming, and spending time with my wife and doggos.
My wife is my high school sweetheart, and together we’ve traveled lived around the world. Thanks to her and the Air Force, we’ve met the most diverse groups of people, and now have a couch to sleep on in a good number of countries.
I began my career as a graphic designer working in advertising, creating logos, and designing print materials. More emphasis was being made on responsive web and mobile, so I began teaching myself HTML and CSS to help the agency. From there I discovered my love for mobile and mobile interactions, and I’ve been shipping product at startups ever since.
It’s the same instinct as before. Back then it was teaching myself to code to keep up with the work; now it’s using LLMs to architect and build the things I design. I prototype faster, pressure-test the UX sooner, and ship 0→1 product, often solo, that used to take a whole team. It’s the most fun I’ve had designing in years.