Topaz LabsSenior Product Designer·AI products
Topaz Labs makes AI tools for photo and video enhancement. When I joined as one of its first product designers, the company sold eight or nine products — mostly Photoshop plugins — each with its own layout, name and installer, so every launch started from zero. I helped rebrand the apps and built a new design system that gave them one shared shell: canvas, model panel, compare and export in the same place in every product.
On that foundation I designed the standalone desktop apps, 23 web tools, the mobile app, the video API and the marketing site — including onboarding that lets people try a model on a sample photo and see a 400% reveal before they commit. It is still the design language Topaz ships on today.
- Product design
- Design system
- Brand & identity
- Desktop, web & mobile
- Onboarding
- AI product UX
- Prototyping
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The models were already best in class, but each product was its own island — different layouts, names, colours and installers — so nothing a customer learned in one app helped in the next, and every launch started from zero. The system put one shell around all of them: the canvas, model panel, compare and export sit in the same place in every Topaz app, then and now.
AI tools ship heavy — multi-gigabyte models, GPU checks, downloads. The onboarding hides that weight: models download in the background while you start, the first launch quietly checks the GPU and picks local or cloud rendering, and a model runs on a sample photo with a 400% reveal before anyone commits.
I’m always open to discussing new projects, creative ideas, or opportunities to be part of your visions. Just reach out!