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Senyo Gault-Williams

AI-Augmented Design Leader · Technical Design for AI Products

AI Product Designer · AI-Augmented Designer · Design Lead at AI Companies

Paso Robles, CA / Remote · me@senyo.com · linkedin.com/in/senyogw · senyo.com

Summary

20+ years of design and engineering expertise, now operating at a fundamentally different scale through AI. Not just a designer using AI tools — but a practitioner who has built AI-augmented workflows from scratch, designed the interfaces and rules that govern AI-assisted design, and shipped AI-native infrastructure products. Deep domain knowledge in developer tooling, data infrastructure, and complex system design, combined with hands-on experience directing AI (Claude) for design decisions, prototyping, and automation. The rare combination of seasoned human judgment and genuine AI fluency.

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Rapid Prototyping

Claude-assisted design decisions and prototype generation at 10× speed without quality loss

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Figma↔Code Sync

Automated code-to-Figma pipelines eliminating design drift between source and implementation

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AI Design Rules

Authored design rules for AI systems to maintain visual consistency at scale

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LLM Interface Design

Designed AI-native product interfaces for MinIO AIStor — infrastructure for AI workloads

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Team Enablement

Led engineers in adopting AI-assisted design workflows; reduced handoff friction across teams

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Domain Amplified

20+ years of hard-won domain knowledge now deployable faster and at greater scale via AI

On AI Fluency: I don't use AI as a shortcut — I use it as leverage. The value I bring is 20+ years of taste, domain knowledge, and judgment about what makes a product good. AI accelerates execution and exploration without replacing that foundation. The result: better decisions, faster iteration, and consistent quality at a scale no individual designer could previously achieve alone.

Experience

UX Lead 2024 – 2026

MinIO — AI Infrastructure & Object Storage (AIStor)

  • Designed the user experience for AIStor Console — MinIO's AI-native object storage platform for AI/ML workloads
  • Built Claude-assisted Figma↔Code workflow: directed AI to generate design variants, evaluate options, and maintain consistency rules
  • Authored AI design rules and visual consistency guidelines for Claude to follow when assisting with component generation
  • Developed code-to-Figma automation — scripts that extract live component states from the codebase and sync them into Figma automatically
  • Led engineering team adoption of AI-assisted design workflows; reduced design-to-implementation handoff time significantly
  • Redesigned MinIO Console using shadcn/ui; built design system enabling consistent UI shipping across engineering teams
Senior UX Designer 2022 – 2023

Ambassador Labs — Developer Infrastructure

  • Designed developer tooling interfaces for complex cloud-native infrastructure — Kubernetes service meshes, local/remote dev environments
  • Conducted 30+ contextual interviews to understand AI-adjacent developer workflows and tool usage patterns
  • Improved developer efficiency +30% through interaction design grounded in deep technical domain understanding
  • VS Code extension design required understanding AI-adjacent tooling patterns for developer productivity
Staff UX Engineer / Designer 2015 – 2022

HONK Technologies — Roadside Assistance SaaS

  • Applied data-driven design methods — SQL analysis, A/B testing — to optimize user flows at scale; drove photo acceptance 35% → 96%
  • Built design processes that foreshadowed current AI-augmented approaches: systematic, measurable, iterative at speed
  • 200+ participant usability studies; deep expertise in using quantitative and qualitative data together for design decisions
Principal Designer / Founder 2007 – 2016

Senyo Corp — Design Consultancy

  • 20+ years of compounding design and engineering expertise now amplified by AI tools and workflows
  • Broad cross-industry experience informs AI-assisted design judgment — knowing what good looks like across domains

AI & Technical Skills

AI Workflows

Claude (Anthropic), AI-Augmented Design, Prompt Engineering for Design, LLM Interface Design, Figma Automation, Code-to-Figma Pipelines, AI Consistency Rules

Product Design

Figma, Design Systems, Interaction Design, Prototyping, User Research, IA, AI-Native Product UX, Complex Data Interfaces

Engineering

shadcn/ui, Design Tokens, Component Libraries, CSS, Git, SQL, WCAG, VS Code Extension API

Research & Data

Contextual Interviews, A/B Testing, SQL Analytics, Usability Testing, Quantitative Analysis, Hypothesis-Driven Design

AI Work Highlights

AI-First

Designed AIStor Console: UX for MinIO's AI-native storage platform — interfaces for AI/ML workload management, bucket policies, and data pipeline monitoring.

Automation

Code-to-Figma Pipeline: Built automated scripts to sync live component states from the MinIO codebase into Figma, eliminating design drift without manual effort.

Workflow

Claude-Assisted Design: Developed structured Claude-assisted workflow for design decisions — from rapid variant generation to consistency checking against design rules.

Rules

AI Design Governance: Authored AI consistency rules that govern how Claude maintains visual and interaction standards when assisting with component creation and layout decisions.