Jan 2019 – Present · 7 yrs 4 mos · United States · Remote

• I’m a lifelong entrepreneur with a knack for creating things. I paid my way through college as a commissioned fine-artist, launched the Design Standup podcast in 2019, invented a new style of customizable hats in 2020 which sold thousands via my Shopify e-commerce store Stone Patch Company, launched my landscape photo Shopify store Ryan Stone Photography in 2021 after eclipsing 100 million views on Unsplash, and most recently launched my first iOS app StuffLog in September 2025 and Noodles Figma plugin in October 2025.

Sep 2018 – Jun 2021 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

• As a senior product designer at Expedia, I improved the flight shopping experience for millions of customers. I led vision sprints to design the future of trip discovery, seat selection, fare upgrades, and flight credit redemption. I increased efficiency of multiple UX teams by creating a new project intake framework, contributed several design components + principles to Expedia's new design system, and coordinated ~5 research studies.
• Led design of flight credit redemption system – enabled millions of customers with billions in COVID-19 flight credits to search and redeem credits for flights on Expedia.com (decreasing customer support cost), and aligned with Expedia SLT on an improved greenpath system (improving credit redemption awareness + usage)
• Led redesign of seat selection flow – moved seat selection earlier in shopping funnel (increasing funnel progression and reducing abandoned carts), optimized IA + usability for mobile devices, improved flight navigation + interaction patterns, applied new UI foundations and components from Expedia’s new design system, contributed new UI components and patterns to design system, and improved keyboard + screen reader accessibility
• Led design of Covid enhancements – designed a new messaging + filter system to highlight flights with “no change fees”, increasing customer confidence during peak-Covid cancellations
• Led design of flight price tracking system – shipped a multi-platform price tracking feature to alert customers via email + app notifications when flight prices change, increasing confidence to checkout

Jun 2017 – Sep 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos · Seattle, Washington

• As a product designer at REI, I made it easier for millions of customers to enjoy the outdoors. I led redesigns of REI responsive web pages, participated in vision sprints to define the future of REI Experiences and REI’s holistic search, contributed several design components + principles to REI’s Cedar design system, and helped coordinate 1 research study.
• Co-designed REI Get Outside trail search – designed a short-term solution for REI customers to search for nearby trails directly on REI.com, powered by REI’s Hiking Project data platform, while aligning with REI SLT on a greenpath product strategy for the REI Experience platform
• Led redesign of REI Adventures home and search pages – optimized UI for mobile devices, improved IA + content strategy, contributed new patterns + components to REI’s Cedar design system

Aug 2014 – Jul 2017 · 2 yrs 11 mos · West Chester, PA

• As a product designer at QVC, I learned the foundational skills of designing multi-platform digital products for global customers. I led redesigns of key web pages and native apps. I also contributed design components + principles to QVC's web and app design systems, and helped coordinate 3 research studies.
• Led redesign of QVC web product listing – increased funnel progression by optimizing IA + interaction patterns for mobile devices, building a new filter system, removing unnecessary content, and creating a standardized badging system
• Co-designed new iOS/Android component design system – reduced content management effort by aligning web + app onto a shared component library, utilizing a mix of native + custom components to improve adoption of iOS and Android apps
• Co-designed QVC Apple Watch app – as part of the Platform Innovation team, I designed key pages of the first Apple Watch app based on just-released Apple Watch SDK guidelines, enabling QVC shoppers to view special-value products directly from their Apple Watch