# Joshua Butts > AI Product Design Engineer & Builder | Ex-Meta | Gen AI, AI Analytics, Social Media, Mobile, Hardware UX, 3D Experiences, Retail Technology Location: Provo, Utah, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/joshuabutts I'm a product designer and design engineer. I've most recently been designing and building on the bleeding edge of consumer and analytics AI technology. As a visual and interaction-based designer, my ultimate goal is to infuse interest and clear communication into every experience I create. Skills include human-in-the-loop design, multimodal AI, Claude code and many other agentic coding processes, skills.md, AI agent orchestration. Above all, I pride myself on defining user problems and ensuring that everything I do will ultimately solve a problem. You'll rarely find me jump on a design or project without first understanding the purpose and problem that I'm solving and who I'm helping. ## Work Experience ### Lead Product Designer | 3D Interactive Experiences @ CoStar Jan 2024 – Present Built and deployed fully functional web apps using React, Next.js, and Three.js, including the integration of authentication and backend services. Designed and managed database data models in Supabase to power live product prototypes. Developed Python data pipelines to automate how product data is gathered and generated for production use. Created a system using Python scripts that cleans and optimizes user research documents so the whole team can easily query them using AI. Taught the team how to use AI and "vibe coding" sandboxes to speed up our prototyping and development process. Designed a seamless 3D experience that integrates Gaussian Splatting directly with 3D meshes for a single, unified interactive environment. Built an AI-driven document scanner with a Human-in-the-loop process. The system automatically organizes and indexes scans and uses WhatsApp to ask a human for help when needed. ### Principal Product Designer (Growth) @ You.com Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 Increased conversions to paid plans by 20% with redesign of pricing page. Led UX research efforts and presented findings to gain stakeholder buy-in to transition product to be chat-first. Grew daily search/chat volume by to over 2m daily searches by designing a chat-first chat experience. Achieved over 150% MoM revenue growth by designing, prototyping, and testing an AI modes and an AI preset builder. ### Senior Product Designer @ Meta Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 Worked on community messaging platform to bring real-time connections to users on messenger. Increased daily user connection rates by 10x by creating events for Facebook group audio channels. Refocused the team to prioritize solving real people's problems and devised a plan to continuously clarify tangible goals for enhancing user experience. Improved product development by bringing broken parts of the process to the attention of leadership which sped up design, build, and ship cycles. Mentored designers in high fidelity prototyping processes on Protopie for user testing. ### Lead Product Designer @ Gabb Wireless Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 Created a 3x revenue increase in 1 year by directing a redesign of the entire digital product accounts ecosystem, also resulting in a 20% decrease in customer support overhead costs. Hired and led designers to own the entire user experience for apps and websites, resulting in the watch line increasing to ~50% of total ARR. Worked closely with executives on planning and executing new products. Established processes in tandem with VPs of engineering and product to speed up product launch cycles by over 5x. Worked closely with executives on planning and executing new products and roadmaps. Established processes in tandem with VP of Engineering and VP of Product to quickly solve customer support tickets and strategize new feature releases. Regularly connected company leaders to keep people on the same page and help define strategies and team focuses. ### Senior Product Designer @ Gabb Wireless Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 Worked with telecom companies and development teams to improve customer-facing mobile apps. Gathered feedback to understand the greatest customer needs and address those with creative solutions. Tested mobile app prototypes at different phases with customers and leveraged research on how they interacted with different pages to inform design decisions. Used the Design-Thinking process to empathize with users and create robust, well-thought-out designs. ### Content Creator & Contributing Writer @ Astute Graphics Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | Provo, Utah Area Astute Graphics is the leader in creating 3rd party plugins for Adobe Illustrator. They create plugins that fill many of the gaps in user requests for features in the software. ### Product Design Lead @ EKR Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 Lead the designing and building of multiple web, mobile, and enterprise SAAS applications. Worked closely with engineers and product teams to ensure product functionality was viable during every step of the process. Mentored junior designers and delegated assignments. Played a key role in the implementation of new UX techniques into EKR's design process. Audited various websites, apps, and web apps to provide feedback on how to provide the best UX. Facilitated cross-team communication and helped keep various teams on the same page with the progress of builds and launches. ### Product Designer @ EKR Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Provo, Utah Area Talked with clients to gain empathy for their project so I could understand what was needed for a successful final deliverable. Led discussions analyzing products from a users perspective, to set appropriate goals that would best fit the user's needs. Worked with various clients reflowing sitemaps, and creating new interaction paradigms to be implemented into the final UX. Created wireframes and iterated them for a complete and usable app experience. Built comprehensive UI designs and UI kits. Tested web and mobile app wireframe prototypes to determine potential problems with flows, and solved targeted pain points to improve them. Tested various skill level users on apps to determine functionality flows that would create the most dummy-proof experiences without being monotonous. Experimented in after effects with various animations to explore how the users experience can be improved with specific interactions. Explored the connection between motion design in relation to UX practices to create better experiences. ### Graphic Designer @ Covenant Communications Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | American Fork ### Graphic Designer @ SmartCoder Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 ### Graphic Designer @ Utah State University Student Association Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Logan, Utah ### Goldsmith @ S.E. Needham Jewelers Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Logan, UT ## Education ### Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) & Minor Computer Science in Graphic Design Utah Valley University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/joshuabutts - Portfolio: http://design.joshuabutts.com - Portfolio: http://joshuabutts.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/joshuabutts JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/joshuabutts/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31