Cogensi · Ryan Hanau, UX/UI design
CogensiUX/UI designUX/UI design

Hi, I’m Ryan · UX/UI designer

I design interfaces from research through to shipped work.

UX/UI design across research, interaction, visual craft and design systems.

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Where the work has run

Forty-five seconds across the portfolio.

Clients from Louis Vuitton to Oracle, and the products I built from zero to one, each named as it passes.

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Client

Louis Vuitton

How I build

AI in the interface, on the person's terms.

Ten rules guide every AI feature I design. Four of them do most of the work.

Rule 01

Build trust through transparent reasoning

Make the reasoning behind a recommendation visible, including confidence, sources, and limits.

Rule 03

Design for explicit role division

Give AI the rote, data-intensive work and keep meaning-making and judgment with people.

Rule 06

Design for anticipatory partnership

Read the trajectory of a user’s goal and surface the next step before it is asked for.

Rule 08

Practice intentional restraint

Treat the ability to collect, personalize, or act as a choice, not an obligation, and know when to step back.

All ten rules

Selected work

All 9

Across B2B and B2C, enterprise and consumer.

AI-rendered key art for Building two onboarding flows to let evidence decide: a phone on linen showing the onboarding screen by candlelight.
  • B2C
  • Consumer
  • AI
  • Mobile
Serenity

AI meditation app: neumorphic redesign, AI-rendered ambient audio, guided tour. Real React and TypeScript.

Run it
AI-rendered key art for Safety context that travels with the team: a phone heat map and a smartwatch on a field jacket by a dusk window.
  • B2B
  • Enterprise
  • Mobile
Community Safety

Employee-safety phone and watch prototype: dual device, live air-quality map, evacuation flow.

Run it
AI-rendered key art for Betting a video tool on conversation instead of a prompt box: two hands filming a coastal dusk on a phone with the storyboard strip on screen.
  • B2C
  • AI
  • Mobile
  • Web
Synergy

AI video-creation tool: a conversational, multi-step build flow from prompt to finished film.

Run it
AI-rendered key art for A new era of investment, designed from zero to one: a phone milestone chart beside a fountain pen and glasses on dark marble.
  • B2C
  • Consumer
  • Mobile
Aspire

Fintech milestone-investing concept: funding flow, smart-contract tranches, portfolio and impact.

Run it
AI-rendered key art for Finding out if a photo could replace the search box: a hand holding a phone with the shoppable fashion feed over a café table.
  • B2C
  • Consumer
  • AI
  • Mobile
Retailor

AI social-shopping app: shoppable feed, photo search, AR try-on, integrated checkout.

Run it
AI-rendered key art for Reimagining B2B Procurement: a laptop and phone showing the furniture catalogue on an interior designer's desk.
  • B2B
  • Enterprise
  • Web
  • Mobile
TradeSource

B2B trade marketplace: desktop, mobile web, iOS and Android, design system, full journey.

Run it
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Proof

1B+

people signing on DocuSign, up from 20 million during my time on the product

4.1/5

mean task ease across six moderated Retailor sessions on a coded prototype

2x

digital share of Saatchi & Saatchi Health work after I built its first UX department

Selected companies

  • Oracle
  • DocuSign
  • Louis Vuitton
  • Saatchi & Saatchi
  • Motorola
  • Audi
  • Intel
  • McKesson
  • Zappos

Every figure traces to a named engagement or to a study I ran myself. The full set, with sources, is on the About page.

Illustrated portrait of Ryan Hanau: engraved line work and halftone grain, round tortoiseshell glasses, swept-back grey-streaked hair, light stubble, white t-shirt, on warm paper.Illustrated portrait of Ryan Hanau: engraved line work and halftone grain, round tortoiseshell glasses, swept-back grey-streaked hair, light stubble, white t-shirt, on a near-black ground.Illustration

About

I have designed interfaces for thirty years, from a twelve-person studio of my own to Oracle, Motorola, and Saatchi & Saatchi, and I still ship the code that carries them.

Research first, one design system across every surface, prototypes in real code, and a measurement before anything scales. The About page has the record, the numbers, and the sources.

About RyanLinkedIn

UX research, Interaction design, Visual design, Prototyping, Design systems for mobile, web, AI products, startups, enterprise.

Hiring for a senior product designer?

Write to me, or book a call. I’ll show you the work behind these pages and answer the hard questions.

How I work