Riley Sheehan

I love the part of the job where you make something beautiful, then make it real. I design it and I build it, so every idea is tested in the product itself. Brand works the same way. I’ve led rebrands, and I drew the mark at the top of this page.

I care about systems and I care about feel, and to me they’re the same thing. The details you can’t quite name, like how a motion settles or how a line sits, come from decisions made deep in the system.

So most of my work now is the kind other people build on: design systems, and the AI-native process around them. Keeping a system whole while it moves fast is a balance, and it’s the part I like best. AI is part of every step of how I work. But I’m a human, and I design for humans.

I’ve led a design team, and I’m at my best when the people around me are doing their best work.

1. 2026–TogetherworkSenior Product Design Engineer
2. 2023–2026ZelloSenior Design Engineer
3. 2015–2023The Austin StoneMarketing Designer, then Lead Product Designer and Developer, then Design Team Manager

I’m a husband and a father, and years of product design and marketing have left me with a curse: I want everything to feel like a polished product, even at home. So our kitchen wall has a name, a brand, and a website. It’s Gingham, a family wall display. It turns an Android photo frame or an old tablet into our calendar, lists, and photos, with no account and no subscription. I took it from the name to the code, and it’s open source.

If something here sounds like a fit, email me at hello@rileysheehan.co. I’m also on LinkedIn and GitHub. Thanks for taking a look.