Carrington SmurlProduct Designer / Engineer

I turn business goals
into products people use.

A designer who ships. I run the research, design the system, build the front end with AI in the terminal, and design the agents doing the work behind it — then lead the team and run the sessions that get everyone pointed at the same problem.

Focus
AI product · agents · design systems · design ops · 0→1
Trained
BFA Product Design, UT Austin · AAS UX/UI Design
Practice
Carrington Design Co. — web, event, and interior design contracts
Status
Austin, Texas · open to senior and staff roles, remote or relocating

AI Product Design

Products where the interface has to make a probabilistic system legible — agent workflows, conversational surfaces, human-in-the-loop review, and the trust and error states that decide whether people keep using any of it.

  1. 01

    Designing the Approval Gate

    AIAgentsTrust & safety
    A working fleet of agents — outreach, social, support, operations, trading — where the real design problem was never the prompt. It was deciding, per action, what an agent may do alone.Designer, architect, and operator 2025 – present
  2. 02

    Saddle Pass

    AI0→1Marketplace
    A dual-sided equestrian marketplace designed 0→1 — three user types, a tested design system shipped to three codebases, and an AI assistant scoped tightly enough to be trusted.Head of Product Design (founding) May – September 2026

Product Design

Enterprise and consumer software: data-dense compliance workflows, design systems, and mobile products. Regulated users, real constraints, and specifications engineering can build from.

  1. 03

    Allhers

    LeadershipMarketplacePro bono
    Leading a pro bono redesign for an Austin startup with four parallel volunteer teams — 8+ creatives, three months, no authority to make anyone do anything.UX Program Manager & Lead Designer 3 months · 2023
  2. 04

    Adaptive Cards

    Design systemsEnterpriseResearch
    A component deep-dive at Intapp that started as a card redesign and turned out to be a naming problem — one word doing two jobs across an entire design system.Associate UX Designer, paired with a Senior Designer April – August 2024
  3. 05

    Intapp Time — Dashboard POC

    EnterpriseResearchData-dense
    A six-month proof of concept rebuilding the dashboard of a legacy legal time-capture product, from subject-matter interviews through a prototype built to win executive funding.Associate UX Designer 6 months · 2023
  4. 06

    Risk & Compliance

    EnterpriseDesign systemsCompliance
    Retrofitting a design system onto a legacy compliance product in ten weeks, on a technology base old enough that it might not have supported the designs.Associate UX Designer 2.5 months · 2023
  5. 07

    Pledgr

    MobileContractDesign systems
    Contract product designer on profile and accounts for a habit-building app, working in a pod of three inside a distributed ten-designer team.Product Designer (contract) Jul 2021 – Mar 2022

Spatial Product Design

Physical environments designed the way products are: a defined user, a measured outcome, a system that has to keep working after handoff. Practised as Stagecoach Design Co., a studio of Carrington Design Co.

  1. 08

    Coastal Cowgirl

    SpatialBrandOperations
    A Central Texas short-term rental designed and operated as a product — a brand position, a capacity decision, and an operating system that has to keep running after the designer leaves the room.Designer & operator — Stagecoach Design Co. 2025 – present
  2. 09

    The Luling Invitational

    Event designSpatialClient work
    Event design for a golf invitational across three venues in one weekend — a barn dinner, three wellness tents, and two cocktail parties — with vendor sourcing and on-site direction through install, event, and strike.Principal Designer — Carrington Design Co. Oct – Nov 2025