Thomas
Ninh
Product Designer & AI Builder
Designing and shipping AI-powered products, end to end.
Thomas Ninh
// Intro
I'm a designer who turns ideas into real, shipped products — built end to end with AI tools.
I prototype fast with AI, refine to a high bar, and ship to production — not mockups, working code.
// Point of view
AI moved the bottleneck — from production to taste.
AI didn't make design easier. It made the ordinary cheap, so judgment became the whole job: knowing what's good, and pushing it further.
Traditional
Weeks of specs, handoffs, and revision cycles.
Now ↓
Hours from an idea to a working, interactive prototype.
Traditional
One safe direction, defended to the end.
Now ↓
Explore ten directions, then curate the one that's exceptional.
Traditional
Design, then hand off — intent gets lost in translation.
Now ↓
One person designs and ships, so the original intent survives.
And it opens doors that were closed to solo builders.
Ideas that used to need a whole team — design, frontend, backend, AI — are now buildable by one person who knows the tools deeply. That's where the new creativity lives: ambition is no longer capped by what you can execute alone.
I design in Figma — using its complementary AI tools to enhance productivity and speed — and build with Claude Code, where I've gone deep enough to be certified, not just dabble. That fluency is why idea-to-production is hours, not weeks.
The tools generate. The taste, the judgment, the decisions — that's still me.
// Selected work
4 projects
Round-ing
Healthcare workforce platform — dashboard + nurse app on one design system.
- —Facilities and nurses had no shared, real-time view of open shifts and staffing.
- —I designed and built both surfaces — a React facility/agency dashboard and a Flutter nurse app — on one shared design system.
- —Shipped to production with AI features (chatbot + speech-to-speech voice) on AWS.
Round-ing connects healthcare facilities, staffing agencies, and nurses on one platform. Facilities and agencies post and manage open shifts from a web dashboard; nurses browse, book, and manage their schedule from a mobile app — all in real time, unified by a shared design system and component library.
Built with
Clair
AI skincare analyzer with a personalized, editorial consumer flow.
- —A concept for skincare guidance that feels editorial, not clinical.
- —Designed the full consumer flow — AI skin scan, quiz, personalized journey, paywall, journal — with a warm, high-craft visual system.
- —Built end to end in Figma with Claude and Gemini.
Built with
SpotIt
AI object finder — scan, detect & remember where your things are.
- —A concept that answers a universal problem: where did I put my stuff?
- —Defined the product and designed the complete surface — auth, onboarding, scan flow, and Home / Map / Scan / Memory / Profile tabs.
- —AI scanning detects, remembers, and locates objects across your space.
Built with
Travy
A warm travel companion to plan trips, save places, and keep a journal.
- —An editorial travel companion — profile, interactive map, and trip journal in one.
- —Save destinations, explore places on a live map, and record each trip day by day.
// Process
Idea to shipped product — end to end, with AI tools.
Idea & product thinking
Define the problem, the user, and the core flow before a pixel exists.
Design in Figma
Generate high-fidelity directions fast, then curate and refine to a high aesthetic bar.
Build with Claude & Gemini
Convert the design into real, production components — interactive demos, not mockups.
Ship & iterate
Deploy, test with real use, and turn what I learn into reusable patterns.
// Experience
May 2025
Round-ing
Full-Stack Software Engineer
Mendrix Inc.
Web / UI-UX Front-End Developer
Cashew Export-Import Co.
iOS Development Intern
Chapman University — Fowler School of Engineering
B.S. Computer Science, Minor in Mathematics
Open to early-career design & product-engineering roles