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Ryan Courter | Lead UX Designer & Design Systems Architect



Available for UX Leadership & Principal Roles
NN/g Certified

Shaping enterprise-grade digital experiences through research, systems, & craft.

Ryan Courter is a seasoned User Experience Lead and Design Systems Strategist with 20+ years of pedigree. From redesigning Honeywell’s global digital workplace to architecting multi-channel platforms for Fortune 500 leaders, he bridges human empathy with technical rigor.

New Jersey, USA

rcourter9@gmail.com
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20+
Years of Design & UX Craft
From Art Direction to Senior Enterprise UX Leadership

NN/g Credential
Certified
Nielsen Norman Group
Gold-standard human-centered research & usability methodology

20+
IT Pros Mentored to UX Cert
Created organization-wide UX playbooks & corporate training

F500
Enterprise Clients
Honeywell, AmEx, DIRECTV, Western Union, Merck, Pfizer

TRUSTED BY INDUSTRY TITANS & ENTERPRISE ORGANIZATIONS

Honeywell
Tactis
American Express
DIRECTV
Western Union
Merck
Pfizer
Novartis
Nestle Nutrition
Ogilvy CommonHealth
TJX
Experian CheetahMail

The intersection of visual excellence and evidence-based UX

A rare blend of 10+ years in foundational Art Direction & Design paired with 10+ years of modern UX Leadership, Design Systems, and Usability Research.

Enterprise Digital Transformation

Led the end-to-end UX architecture for Honeywell’s Digital Workplace, standardizing tools across cross-functional units and instituting design guidelines that elevated productivity for thousands of global employees.

VOC Research
Design Systems
Change Management

UX Facilitation & Team Enablement

Expert in leading cross-stakeholder alignment sessions, collaborative online workshops, persona mapping, and feature prioritization. Personally mentored 20 IT professionals to achieve their official UX certification.

Workshops
Mentorship
Design Ops

High-Fidelity Prototyping & IA

From complex healthcare clinical tools to Fortune 500 responsive email systems, Ryan creates pixel-perfect interactive prototypes, sitemaps, user flows, and annotated specifications that de-risk development.

Interactive Prototyping
Information Architecture
Design Specs

20 Years of Proven Impact

Progressive track record spanning UX Leadership, enterprise design systems, and art direction.





CURRENT ROLE

October 2020 — Present

UX Lead

TACTIS

UX Strategy & Client Research

  • User-Centric Research: Work directly with clients and end-users to conduct generative and evaluative user research that directly informs user-centric solutions.
  • Collaborative Workshop Facilitation: Facilitate high-engagement online discovery workshops to architect nuanced personas, end-to-end user journeys, and strategic feature prioritization matrices.
  • Rapid Prototyping & Requirements: Lead stakeholder requirements gathering sessions to conceptualize and deliver detailed wireframes and high-fidelity interactive prototypes.

FORTUNE 100

November 2015 — September 2020 (5 yrs)

Sr. User Experience Designer

HONEYWELL

Global Digital Workplace

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Key Achievement: UX Lead on the landmark redesign of the Honeywell Digital Workplace. Defined the UI architecture, design language, and style guide; conducted extensive Voice of Customer (VOC) research and usability tests across global business units.

  • Design Mentorship & Leadership: Coordinated and mentored early-career designers across multi-disciplinary teams to guarantee project excellence and timely delivery.
  • Enterprise UX Playbooks & Training: Created and delivered comprehensive UX training curricula and design playbooks. Personally coached 20 IT professionals to successfully earn their UX Certification.
  • Tooling Standardization: Organized and led a cross-organizational team of UX practitioners to systematically evaluate design tools, consolidating the company’s toolset and presenting strategic findings to executive leadership.
  • Executive Communication & Evangelism: Authored in-depth UX industry reports to articulate the ROI of human-centered design, actively evangelizing UX methodologies across enterprise IT divisions.

CONSULTING & LIFE SCIENCES

June 2013 — November 2015

UX Designer

INDEPENDENT UX CONTRACTOR

Merck Creative Studios
Ogilvy CommonHealth
ICC Trio

  • Intranet & Microsite Systems: Designed enterprise intranets and targeted microsites, architecting user flows, wireframes, sitemaps, and pixel-perfect design comps.
  • Cross-Platform Optimization: Built interactive wireframe prototypes, annotated UX specifications, and intuitive interfaces optimized across desktop and mobile form factors.
  • Tablet-Optimized UI: Designed specialized UI layouts and interaction patterns for sales and product value propositions deployed on tablet devices in field settings.

FORTUNE 500 CAMPAIGNS

August 2012 — May 2013

Art Director

EXPERIAN CHEETAHMAIL

DIRECTV
American Express
Western Union
TJX
Pogo

  • Team Management: Managed a high-output design and production team delivering multi-million recipient digital marketing campaigns for Fortune 500 leaders.
  • Cutting-Edge Dynamic Technology: Pioneered early adoption of dynamic device targeting, real-time Movable Ink contextual elements, responsive email frameworks, and HTML5 video.
  • Mobile Architecture: Consulted directly with enterprise clients to re-architect legacy template libraries into modular, mobile-first responsive solutions.
  • Client Partnership: Built and nurtured collaborative relationships across client marketing directors, account executives, and creative teams.

HEALTHCARE & LIFE SCIENCES

August 2010 — August 2012

Art Director

BOOMERANG PHARMACEUTICAL

Novartis
Merck
Pfizer
Nestle Nutrition
Pacira

  • Interactive Platforms for Healthcare: Conceptualized responsive websites and interactive digital tools tailored for healthcare professionals (HCPs) and patient consumers.
  • IA & Technical Collaboration: Collaborated intimately with engineering teams to produce detailed information architecture (IA), comprehensive sitemaps, wireframes, and functional specification documents.

AGENCY DESIGN

October 2007 — November 2010 (3 yrs)

Art Director

ART AND DESIGN

Brand Identity & Digital Creative

Directed concept ideation, brand design systems, and digital interactive collateral across multidisciplinary client accounts. Spearheaded creative strategy, visual design execution, and client stakeholder presentations.

FOUNDATIONAL CRAFT

September 2004 — October 2007 (3 yrs)

Art Director

COLOR LOGIC INCORPORATED

Color Theory & Graphic Production

Led visual design production, digital layout, typographic refinement, and color accuracy systems. Established high standards for graphic consistency, visual polish, and production prepress across high-profile media.

Comprehensive Capability Matrix

Search or filter through 35+ core competencies spanning UX research, design systems, and software.




Design Architecture

10 Core Disciplines

Structural, conceptual, and aesthetic systems for cohesive product ecosystems.

Concept Ideation
Strategic
Iterative Prototyping
Core
Design Language Systems
Enterprise
User Interface (UI)
Expert
Web Design
20+ Yrs
Service Design
End-to-End
Scenario Design
Contextual
Wireframing
Mastery
Icon Design
Vector
Logo Design
Brand

UX Research & Testing

8 Core Methodologies

Evidence-based validation, discovery frameworks, and voice-of-customer analytics.

Stakeholder Mapping
Strategic
Experience Diagramming
Systems
VOC / OVOC
Quantitative
UX Assessment
Auditing
Persona Development
Empathy
Heuristic Evaluation
NN/g Std
Usability Testing
Evaluative
Jobs To Be Done (JTBD)
Framework

Software & Ecosystem

15 Tools & Platforms

Full spectrum design, prototyping, usability testing, and collaboration tools.


Photoshop

Illustrator

InDesign

Adobe XD

InVision

Validately

UserZoom

Balsamiq

Axure RP

Omnigraffle

Sketch

Mural

Acrobat

Excel

Powerpoint & Word

The 5-Stage Human-Centered UX Engine

Click each phase to inspect Ryan’s battle-tested methods for de-risking complex enterprise initiatives.





PHASE 01 • DISCOVERY & RESEARCH

Uncovering the Voice of the Customer

Before sketching a single wireframe, Ryan grounds solutions in qualitative and quantitative research. Through stakeholder mapping, Voice of Customer (VOC/OVOC) discovery, and collaborative workshops, business objectives align with genuine user needs.

Key Activities:

  • Stakeholder interviews & expectation mapping
  • Generative user research & field discovery
  • Persona development & Jobs-To-Be-Done (JTBD)
  • Collaborative online alignment workshops
Primary Artifacts & Tools:

Persona Cards
User Journey Maps
VOC Reports
Mural
UserZoom

Education & Professional Certifications

Rigorous fine arts foundation backed by industry-standard UX certification.

2004

THE COLLEGE OF SAINT ROSE

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Design (BFA)

Comprehensive 4-year fine arts and design curriculum emphasizing typography, color theory, layout composition, visual hierarchy, and conceptual problem solving.

BFA Degree
Visual Design
Fine Arts

2015

SUSSEX CO. COMMUNITY COLLEGE

Associates of Applied Science, Design (AAS)

Applied science degree focusing on technical design systems, digital media production, and practical interactive design execution.

AAS Degree
Applied Science
Design Systems

Ready to elevate your product’s user experience?

Available for Lead, Principal, and Director UX opportunities, advisory, and high-impact digital initiatives.

Direct Email
rcourter9@gmail.com

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Base Location
New Jersey, USA

Remote / Hybrid

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