Hybrid product designer · Audits, designs, ships — with AI in the loop

Turning complexity into clarity.

I'm a product designer who started in software engineering and spent a decade in biotech R&D. I diagnose, design and help build software for high-stakes, data-dense domains — increasingly the AI-powered kind — and I make it usable. I design the interface and build the prototype myself — with AI tooling to move faster, not to do the building.

UX & product design Designing AI interfaces Design systems User research Ships in code Engineering background Biotech R&D (research and clinical)
Rob Offutt, product designer

Dallas–Ft Worth based · Learn more about me →

Companies & clients

Thermo Fisher Scientific Alamar Biosciences Red Hat Fannie Mae The Carlyle Group GlobalFoundries Cars.com

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Why hybrid

Most product designers can't read the codebase they're designing for. Most engineers can't run a heuristic audit or facilitate a user-research session. I do both — and chose biotech because I wanted work with greater impact.

Explore

Currently open

Let’s make complex software usable.

Open to product design roles — biotech and complex software especially. If you’re trying to make something genuinely hard easy to use, I’d love to hear about it.

© 2026 Rob Offutt · Designed and built by hand. No framework, no build step.