Design craft
& Systems

Bridging the gap between design and engineering.

Selected Work

OpenGov

/ AI-Native / GovTech / Enterprise SaaS / Design Leadership
Strictly Spending App Mockup

Strictly Spending

/ AI-Native / Personal Finance / Local-first / Design Craft

CallRail Design System

/ Design System / Communications / UI Architecture
Industrial Data Labs Visualization

Industrial Data Labs

/ AI Product / Data Visualization / Enterprise
Let's Read

Let's Read

/ Product Design
Shoot for the Moon

Shoot for the Moon

/ Creative Coding / WebGL
Race Day

Race Day

/ In Progress / UEFN

About Me

Portrait of Chris Barnes

Today I lead the design system and AI tooling at an enterprise SaaS platform. Before that, I did similar work at startups, agencies, and as a consultant. Past collaborators include Disney, Intel, Weather Channel, Southern Company Gas, Kimberly Clark, and IHG.

I'm a designer who ships code, so the systems I design are the same ones I prototype and hand off. What I'm best at: turning a fuzzy "we need an AI feature" into a real platform of tokens, components, agents, and workflows.

Let's Work Together

Open to Principal IC roles, design-leadership consulting, and AI/platform collaborations

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