● Senior Product Designer Field-Tested UX / AI Systems Northern California

Chad Stauffer.

Most software fights for attention. Mine works without it.

Field-tested by people who trust software mid-mission, mid-shift, and mid-river.

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Selected Work Featured products. Live in production.

Client & personal
Shipped & in use
Carebility healthcare AI platform, selected product screens
Production interfacecarebility.com

Healthcare AI · Marketing Site & Product UI

Carebility

Marketing site, product UI, and brand system for an AI training and policy-guidance platform in post-acute and senior care. Now serving 30,000+ frontline users across 300+ healthcare customers. The challenge: healthcare AI credible enough for compliance officers, simple enough for frontline staff.

Healthcare AIDesign SystemHIPAA / ComplianceBrand System
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Stauffer Strength and Conditioning training calendar with a year of programmed and completed workouts
Training calendarLive on Vercel

Personal Project · Strength Training App

Stauffer Strength & Conditioning

A strength training app I designed, built, and ship to myself daily.

Personal ProjectFigmaReactSupabase
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Meetn video conferencing platform, selected product screens
Production interfacemeetn.com

Video Conferencing · UX/UI & Brand System

Meetn

UX/UI for a webinar and video-conferencing platform: the in-call experience, settings and A/V setup, and a flexible widget system that lets hosts brand their rooms. The priority: making breakouts, streaming, and recording approachable without dumbing them down.

Video ConferencingComponent SystemWeb AppBrand System
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Case studies Four products that had to work in the field.

2021 – 2025
04 case studies
01 / 04 DOD AI Platform · Founding Designer

Tenjin

SAIC's first UX hire, dropped into a 25-person AI division with no design function. Built the design system, the interaction language, and the institutional memory for a platform serving two audiences at once: data scientists and analysts who had never touched ML.

The move that workedThe Accelerator Store. An app store UX for machine learning capabilities that let non-technical analysts deploy models without reading a line of code.

Tenjin Design Studio dashboard
Role
Founding Designer
Scope
Design system · Platform UX
Org growth
25 → 250+ people
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02 / 04 Security UX · Military Edge Systems

Koverse

Two products, one philosophy: make irreversible decisions visible before they happen. ABAC configuration where data classification is permanent. A geospatial platform where certain military sites must never render on the map.

The move that workedTreating consequence as a first-class UI element. Every destructive path shows its blast radius before the user commits.

Koverse Aether datastream dashboard
Role
Lead Product Designer
Domain
ABAC · Geospatial edge
Constraint
Zero undo. Zero leaks.
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03 / 04 Federal Sprint · Rapid Prototype

DHS Hackathon

A $407M federal competition. Three weeks. A complete naturalization kiosk prototype: biometric auth, passport OCR, identity verification. Our prototype was the demo asset that carried SAIC's bid against four competitors.

The move that workedA personalized citizenship journey timeline that turned a multi-year bureaucratic process into one sentence: Bob, you are here.

Naturalization kioskIdentity verified
DHS naturalization kiosk, personalized citizenship journey timeline: you are here
Prototype · As demoed3-week sprint
Role
Design Lead
Timeline
3-week sprint
Stakes
$407M competition
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04 / 04 AI Vision Product · Founder & Builder

HatchMatch

Designed and built alone, zero to the App Store. An AI vision app that identifies aquatic insects and matches the fly. The hard problem was never the camera flow. It was deciding what the interface says when the model isn't sure.

The move that workedConfidence as a product feature. The app earns trust by admitting uncertainty instead of faking authority.

HatchMatch fly identification result
Role
Everything
Stack
React Native · AI Vision
Status
Live on the App Store
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25→0+
First designer in. Built the design function from zero.
0+
Agencies served across DOD, DOJ, DHS, and beyond.
$0M
Federal contract competition. Sprint prototype built in three weeks.
0→1
HatchMatch. Designed and built alone, zero to the App Store.

About

Anyone can ship good design. Great design survives contact with people who have better things to do.

I joined SAIC's Innovation Factory in 2021 as its first UX hire. No design function, no system, no process. I built all of it while the division grew from 25 people to 250+, shipping AI tools used across DOD, DOJ, and DHS.

When that chapter ended, I built HatchMatch: a production AI vision app, designed and shipped solo from zero to the App Store. It is the clearest proof I have that I don't just design products. I think in them.

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Capabilities

AAI Product DesignConfidence communication, uncertainty UX, human-AI decision interfaces, explainability as a feature.
BHigh-Stakes UXIrreversible decision design, security-critical workflows, failure-state architecture, biometrics.
CDesign SystemsComponent architecture, token systems, governance at 250-person scale, Figma advanced.
DZero to OneFull product ownership, roadmap, monetization UX, shipping without a team.
EEngineering FluencyReact Native, React, Node, Supabase. Enough to ship, not just specify.

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Let's build cool sh*t.

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LinkedIn HatchMatch ↗ Senior product design · AI-first teams · Hard problems preferred