Chad Stauffer · Founding Product Designer

Northern California

I design and ship AI products from zero. Bring me the part nobody has figured out yet.

Craft

Shipped

HatchMatch

Ends an angler's decision fatigue. Shipped solo.

Secured

Aether

Keeps classified sites off the map and their sensitive data moving at the edge.

Scaled

Tenjin

No design function existed. Built the system 250+ people ran on.

More work

About

“Design is clear thinking made visible.”

Edward Tufte

Good interfaces ask for attention. Great ones get out of the way. I've been building them since 2019, for people who trust software mid-mission, mid-shift, and mid-river. They're busy, decisions have a cost, and nobody reads the manual.

  1. HatchMatch

    Founder & product designer

    • Designed, built, and shipped it solo.
    • Live on the App Store.

  2. SAIC's Innovation Factory

    Founding UX designer

    • Built the design function as the team grew from 25 to 250+.
    • Shipped AI platforms for DOD, DOJ, and DHS.

  3. Stauffer Creative

    Founder · freelance, ongoing

    • Shipped brand and web for Carebility, Meetn, and more.
Practice
Finding the real problem before designing the answer. AI product design, high-stakes UX, design systems, zero to one.
Design tools
Figma, Claude Design, Adobe.
Builds
React Native, React, Node, Supabase. Enough to ship.
AI stack
Claude, Codex, Grok.
Based
Northern California. Remote.

Contact

Let's build cool sh*t.

(Or let's just talk design over coffee.)

hello@stauffercreative.ai
Résumé HatchMatch