Andrew Adams

UX design leader · Seattle

I help design teams
partner with AI.

Eleven years leading design for enterprise platforms and design systems, and now building software hands-on with AI agents. I write about what AI speeds up, what it can't replace, and how leaders make the shift work.

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Results

41% → 85% employee satisfaction within a year of launch me@slalom
−60% HR support ticket volume me@slalom
22 → 3 min average time to complete the core career task me@slalom
12 VR disaster-and-recovery training scenarios for field technicians T-Mobile

Selected work

Case studies on the problem, the decisions and the results, not screen galleries.

The me@slalom home page: performance gauges, learning picks, career next steps and quick actions.
Design systems · Enterprise

me@slalom

Five fragmented HR tools became one platform for 13,000 consultants, built on a design system I built and govern.

Slalom · 2021–present · Manager, UX Design

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A VR training scene: a fallen tree against a cell tower, with a callout naming the damage.
Learning · AR · VR

T-Mobile field training

Training for cell-site technicians: VR disaster scenarios, a role-based learning flow, and Pulse, an AR proof of concept.

T-Mobile · 2018–2021 · Senior UX Designer

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Three ROAM screens: the world map in a handheld-console frame, a companion egg, and a battle.
Consumer · Behavior design

ROAM

A walking game on the App Store: real steps move you through a fantasy world, and healthy habits live in the rules instead of reminders.

Personal project · 2026 · Live on the App Store

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The Tether staff console home: items that need attention, a setup checklist, and counts of people, groups and events.
In progress · AI-built product

Tether

A community app for small churches that I design while AI coding agents write the code: the rules the agents follow, and what AI did and didn't speed up.

Personal project · 2026 · In progress, testing with one church

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The Nova docs page: the NOVA wordmark, a speaker-grill dot pattern, and a theme switcher for Nova, Nova Dark, Flat and Flat Dark.
Open source · Design system

Nova design system

A retro-modern design system with four themes from one tokens file, and a rules file so AI coding agents build with it instead of inventing styles.

Personal project · 2026 · Open source (MIT)

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Writing

Field notes on design and AI from someone building with it every week.

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About

Black and white portrait of Andrew Adams, smiling, in glasses and a plaid shirt.

I'm a UX design manager at Slalom, where I lead a team of designers and researchers working with eight engineers on me@slalom, the platform 13,000 consultants use to find roles and grow their careers.

Before that I designed training for T-Mobile's field technicians, from VR disaster scenarios to an AR prototype, led visual design at iSpot.tv, and created production art for the Magic: The Gathering website at Wizards of the Coast. I hold a BFA in graphic design and five ADDY awards from the American Advertising Federation.

Outside work I build my own products with AI agents doing the implementation, including ROAM, a walking game on the App Store. It's the most useful design education I've had in years.

andrewadamsdesigns@gmail.com