[ RYAN LYNCH ]

UX Designer / Creative Director

Get in touch

Hi, I’m Ryan, a Sr. designer and hyper creative based in Santa Cruz, CA

With over a decade of experience in multiple disciplines, I work with companies to create intuitive, immersive, and engaging digital experiences.

I often work with:

Sr. Leadership

Creative wizards

React Engineers

PM & Product Leadership

Startups

Big Tech

Product / Material dev

B2B /SAAS enterprises

You may have seen me at:

I've even won a few awards

Penta awards

Bronze medalist

Time magazine

Invention of the year

Fast Company

Most innovative companies

[ WORK ]

View CV

Tesla

Sr. Designer - Design Studio

Seats

Started as a team of two to build out the entire seat design, release, and manufacturing facility in Fremont, CA. Working out of the Design studio meant high-fidelity prototyping, 5 year future concepts, material development and validation, etc

Seam-line design

Pattern development

Nesting cost optimization

Cut / sew engineering package

Material design and development

Product development

Space

Advanced prototype and design support for the space suit program, including patterning and prototyping a series of custom space suit designs, with integrated LED screens and sandbox UX functionality.

Communications design

UI/UX design

Pattern development

High fidelity prototyping

Material development

Product development

Special Projects

Co-founded a team dedicated to the development of advanced materials, technologies, and moon-shot production concepts, such as 3d knitting, thermo-forming complex curves, enviro-responsive materials, embedded textile sensors, and user-variable design control. Led to implementations in Model S, Model 3, Semi, and to collaborative partnerships with Adidas, Nasa, Serta, etc.

Creative moonshot

Advanced manufacturing

Future of design

3d knitting

Material development

Cross-industry partnerships

Timber

Owner / Founder

Founded a global sports hardware brand, built on reclaimed wood sourcing