# Wayne Stedman > Design Systems Designer & Tokens expert Location: Alameda, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/waynestedman Staff-level Design Systems Designer and UX Engineer with deep front-end engineering expertise. Designed and built scalable, multi-brand design systems and token architectures for enterprise organizations. Design leader who bridges design and engineering teams through hands-on system creation, automated tooling, and strategic design planning. Proven track record of establishing design foundations that accelerate product velocity while ensuring accessible, cohesive user experiences. ## Work Experience ### Senior UX CX Designer, Design Systems @ UnitedHealthcare Jan 2026 – Present | Remote ### Senior UX Engineer @ Rhombus Power Inc. Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Palo Alto, California, United States Engineer within the UX/UI Design team. • Designed and built comprehensive app prototypes using advanced Figma, Spline, and code techniques to validate complex user experiences. This includes a satellite analysis tool and an AI agent. • Architected a design system from the ground up, personally creating design tokens and Material UI themes while establishing developer-friendly processes. • Developed custom Figma plugins to bridge design-development workflows, directly improving team efficiency through hands-on tool creation. • Started a custom AI system, whose backend was a combination of a RAG Orchestration Framework (LlamaIndex), Model (Anthropic API), and Vector DB (Chroma). It also used Pyrdantic AI. The frontend was React. ### Staff Design Systems Designer @ Cox Communications Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Remote Led Cox's enterprise-wide Design System strategy across 4 brands, driving adoption and consistency at scale. • Owned all hands-on design system production within Figma—updating components, building new variants, optimizing auto-layouts, and architecting token sets—while leading the strategic evaluation and planning for future system evolution. • Established design token architecture that became the foundation for all product development teams. • Drove organizational change through comprehensive research program (user interviews, surveys, office hours) that informed system evolution and adoption strategies. • Influenced product strategy through participation in high-level, multi-disciplinary meetings, ensuring design system alignment with business goals. ### Senior Design Systems Designer, Tokenization @ Huge Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 Subject Matter Expert in Design Tokens. • Built token systems for two design systems (Cox Communications and Google). • Created educational materials and conducted user interviews which helped designers and engineers (client & internal) understand the value of tokens and uncover their pain points. ### Senior Design Systems Designer & UX Engineer @ Unknown Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 Contract work for a publishing client. • Designed and built a complete design and token system, handling Figma component creation, token architecture, and front-end implementation. • Executed end-to-end UX design work while establishing scalable design processes for the organization. ### Staff UX Engineer, Design Systems @ JLL Technologies Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 Led design systems technical strategy across JLL's multiple ‘pillars’. • Architected cross-divisional design infrastructure while personally building the core technical systems that enabled consistent experiences across multiple product design and engineering teams. • Directly collaborated with engineering teams to drive adoption, providing hands-on technical guidance and implementation support. Notable projects built and delivered: • Design Tokens automation pipeline – Engineered complete build processes that extracted Figma design tokens, transformed them into multiple code formats, and published consumable packages, establishing the foundation for product development. • Enterprise React Material UI library – Built comprehensive UI library combining exported design tokens with custom Material UI components, which enabled quick adoption by product engineering teams. • Data Visualization component system – Developed custom chart library enhancements for Highcharts, and Tableau that integrated design tokens as the styling foundation and ensured visual consistency with the broader design system across applications. ### Senior UX Engineer @ Thrivent Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Remote Engineer within the Design team. • Built the complete technical foundation of Thrivent's new Design System, personally coding the design token pipeline, component libraries, and build processes. • Hands-on developed web components that leveraged the token architecture while collaborating directly with UX researchers to ensure WCAG compliance. • Created numerous interactive prototypes to facilitate collaborative design iteration and validate user experiences. ### UX Engineer @ Ralph Lauren Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | United States Specialist engineer within the Design organization. • Built a complex animated 3D e-commerce component from the ground up, personally coding advanced Three.js interactions and API integrations. • Built a system that used detailed 3D product models and implemented real-time customization functionality for Ralph Lauren's e-commerce platform. ### Lead Frontend Engineer @ VMLY&R Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area Led frontend development for multiple pharmaceutical client websites while managing a small team of engineers across concurrent projects. • Established technical standards for responsive design, cross-browser compatibility, and WCAG accessibility compliance across all client deliverables. • Architected and built innovative solutions including a Vue-based Virtual Conference platform featuring integrated 3D environments, demonstrating advanced technical capabilities that expanded the agency's service offerings. ### Senior Frontend Developer @ DHC USA Incorporated Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Alameda, CA Primary frontend developer for DHC’s e-commerce websites. Extensive, side-by-side collaboration with the Creative and Marketing Teams. Maintained responsive, cross-browser, and multi-device compatibility. ### Developer @ Performance Structures, Inc. Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area Projects ranged from fixing industrial robots to prototyping an internal, single-page web app. ### Owner & Frontend Engineer @ Pacific Web Foundry Jan 2011 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area PWF was a one-person shop. I took care of all the business, design, and development needs. ## Education ### BA in Psychology University of California, Davis ### 3D Modeling & Animation Academy of Art University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/wstedman - GitHub: https://github.com/waynestedman --- Source: https://flows.cv/waynestedman JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/waynestedman/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13