Tom Griger · UI/UX Designer
9 years in design — the last 3 on digital products across insurance, telemedicine, and DNA-testing. I use an AI-first workflow to move from strategy to working build, fast.
What I bring
When the ask is small, I look for the real problem and design the simplest thing that solves it — inside real business limits, not despite them.
Claude Code, Cowork, and Figma Make let me hand real execution to AI — prototyping, building, automating, mapping the hard journeys — while the structure, judgment, and taste stay mine.
I designed and directed this whole site to production — every component, state, and interaction. I don’t hand-author the code; I know how it should behave and direct AI to build it, then measure how it performs.
Figma is my home — three years in it daily, now with Figma Make in the kit — built on a graphic-design foundation in type, layout, hierarchy, and brand. The polish shows.
Different devices, light and dark, accessibility, heavy localization — I sweat them. My work ran on a telemedicine platform serving 3.5M+ members across 19 countries and 25+ languages.
Portfolio
Three projects that show how I work through real business problems — including this site, a live product I designed and shipped myself.
Handed a one-line brief, I redesigned a partner's outdated questionnaire into a 1-click email rating that routes happy users to public reviews and unhappy ones to private recovery. A proposal — and my deepest product-thinking piece.
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I'm a UI/UX designer, not a developer. So I directed AI through every component, animation, and interaction — shipping this multi-page portfolio as my own production product.
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A self-directed concept: turning a one-button margin fix into location-aware routing that balances cost, ethics, and UX at once — built from a real DNA ERA constraint.
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My Journey
How elite sports, regional geography, and visual craft shaped my approach to UI/UX design.
Cultivating discipline and mental stamina through sports.
Long before I was mapping user experiences, my curiosity to explore the world around me took a physical form: cycling. Guided by my father’s early belief in my potential, a childhood hobby rapidly accelerated into elite competitive racing on the global stage, including the Junior World Cup and World Championships.
But high-intensity racing takes a toll. Moving into duathlons, running, and eventually recreational sports shifted my focus from raw results to the joy of the process. It taught me my very first UX lesson: the quality of the journey matters just as much as the destination.
Mastering systems thinking and a human-centered lens through geography.
That innate curiosity eventually shifted from sports to academics. I’m naturally wired to understand not just how things work, but the deeper why behind them.
This drive led me to a Master's in Regional Geography, where I spent years analyzing how countries, cultures, and societies connect and function as a whole. Without realizing it at the time, I was already mastering the systems thinking and human-centered lens that define my approach to design today.
Mastering visual craft, typography, and pixel-perfection from the ground up.
My transition into the digital world began through the lens of landscape photography, which naturally evolved into a five-year career as a graphic designer. Before I engineered complex user flows and onboarding architectures, I mastered the fundamentals of space, hierarchy, and visual communication through print, identity, and apparel design.
Over time, I realized I cared far more about the mechanics of an experience than just its surface aesthetics. Three years ago, I pivoted to UI/UX design. It is the exact sweet spot where my analytical geography roots and visual craft converge to solve complex problems with elegant clarity.
Designing tomorrow’s solutions with AI and intentionality.
I treat modern AI as a working partner, not a magic button. I use it to map journey edge cases early, generate starting points, sharpen copy, and handle mechanical execution — which frees my energy for the strategic goal and the user’s experience. The judgment, structure, and taste are still mine.
My unconventional path is my greatest asset. Sports taught me grit, geography taught me systems, and visual design taught me craft. I want to bring this holistic approach to a forward-thinking team, building intuitive products that feel less like a tool and more like a journey. Let’s build something special.
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