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Design for complexity without confusion.

Design for complexity without confusion.

Design for complexity without confusion.

I design systems, interfaces, and narratives that help people make sense of complexity and act with confidence.

I design systems, interfaces, and narratives that help people make sense of complexity and act with confidence.

I design systems, interfaces, and narratives that help people make sense of complexity and act with confidence.

Acrylic

Product design lead, AI music licensing

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Protected Work

Client case studies from fintech, music licensing and early-stage products

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AI Workflow Experiments

Prototypes built with AI agents as design partners

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Most recently I led product design at Acrylic, an AI-powered music licensing platform for sports teams and brands. At Edward Jones, I designed financial workflows. I also run AI Workflow Experiments, a series of small projects where I work with AI agents as design partners and publish an honest account of how each one was made.

Most recently I led product design at Acrylic, an AI-powered music licensing platform for sports teams and brands. At Edward Jones, I designed financial workflows. I also run AI Workflow Experiments, a series of small projects where I work with AI agents as design partners and publish an honest account of how each one was made.

My work sits where information, judgment, technology, and human need collide. Media platforms, creative licensing tools, financial workflows, AI systems, and products that ask people to make decisions under uncertainty.

My work sits where information, judgment, technology, and human need collide. Media platforms, creative licensing tools, financial workflows, AI systems, and products that ask people to make decisions under uncertainty.

Good design doesn't flatten the world to make it easier. It gives people orientation, agency, and dignity inside systems that might otherwise overwhelm them.

Good design doesn't flatten the world to make it easier. It gives people orientation, agency, and dignity inside systems that might otherwise overwhelm them.

"Design should make complexity legible without pretending the world is simple."

"Design should make complexity legible without pretending the world is simple."

I'm drawn to problems where the interface is only the visible edge of a much larger system.

A person trying to make a consequential decision with incomplete information. A team trying to align around something genuinely complex. A product trying to earn trust from people who have every reason to be skeptical. These are not just screen-design problems. They are orientation problems.

The work is to understand the system well enough to reduce friction without removing meaning. To create structure without false certainty. To help people see what matters, understand what is possible, and move with confidence.

Territories of Practice

Territories of Practice

Across all of it, form and function are the same problem viewed from different angles.

Across all of it, form and function are the same problem viewed from different angles.

Complex Product Systems

Complex Product Systems

Some products are also infrastructures. They carry decisions, dependencies, and consequences that extend far beyond the screen. I work on products where the design challenge isn't just usability, aesthetics, or even functionality. It's helping people navigate something genuinely complex without losing confidence or context.

Some products are also infrastructures. They carry decisions, dependencies, and consequences that extend far beyond the screen. I work on products where the design challenge isn't just usability, aesthetics, or even functionality. It's helping people navigate something genuinely complex without losing confidence or context.

Designing with AI

Designing with AI

AI is changing what designers can make, how fast they can make it, and what problems are now worth attempting. I work at that edge, using AI as a creative and systems partner, while staying focused on the human judgment that no model can replace.

AI is changing what designers can make, how fast they can make it, and what problems are now worth attempting. I work at that edge, using AI as a creative and systems partner, while staying focused on the human judgment that no model can replace.

Structure as Design

Before a single component is designed, the underlying architecture is already making decisions. I build design systems and interface structures that give teams a shared language, so the product can scale without losing coherence.

Before a single component is designed, the underlying architecture is already making decisions. I build design systems and interface structures that give teams a shared language, so the product can scale without losing coherence.

Narrative & Strategy

Not every design problem lives in an interface. Sometimes the work is helping an individual or a team see their own product clearly, articulate what it's for, and build the story that makes it legible to everyone else.

Not every design problem lives in an interface. Sometimes the work is helping an individual or a team see their own product clearly, articulate what it's for, and build the story that makes it legible to everyone else.

AI & Design

AI & Design

"They say friction is why systems fail. I'd argue that some friction is necessary. The real failure is when design removes so much friction that people lose their footing entirely."

"They say friction is why systems fail. I'd argue that some friction is necessary. The real failure is when design removes so much friction that people lose their footing entirely."

AI is changing the scale of what a designer can explore, prototype, compare, and build. It compresses distance between idea and artifact. It makes one person faster, but more importantly, it makes one person differently capable.

That is why I pay close attention to it.

The most interesting design question is not whether AI can generate more screens, copy, or code. It is how we design with systems that can suggest, summarize, simulate, and act, without allowing their confidence to become a substitute for our judgment.

As products become more adaptive, more automated, and more opaque, design has to do more than smooth the path. It has to preserve orientation. People need to understand what is happening, where the machine is making a recommendation, where uncertainty still exists, and where human choice still matters.

The future of design is not frictionless. It is intelligible.

Selected Work

A few projects and case studies that show how this thinking turns into systems, interfaces, workflows, and artifacts.

Acrylic search results for a sports team, from the public Acrylic case study.

Acrylic

An AI-powered music licensing platform for helping sports teams find, evaluate, and license tracks for social content.

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Protected Work

Case studies from client work in financial services, creative licensing and early-stage startups. The decisions, the constraints, and what shipped. These are shared on request: ask and I will send the password.

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The newest experiment, Agent Spaces in Atelier: the needs-you list with three open decisions.

AI Workflow Experiments

Self-initiated projects built with AI agents as design partners. Each one ends with a prototype you can try and a plain account of how it was made, including what went wrong.

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If you are working on a product, system, or idea that needs more clarity without becoming smaller, I'd be glad to hear about it.

If you are working on a product, system, or idea that needs more clarity without becoming smaller, I'd be glad to hear about it.

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© 2026 Arman Musaji

Email:

armanmusaji@gmail.com

Email:

armanmusaji@gmail.com