About Timothy Ali — UX & Product Designer in Denver
I’m a designer working across product, brand, and motion. I design and build products, brand systems, and websites for startups and tech companies — from early-stage to growth.
Currently I’m designing and building a multi-brand, AI-native design-system platform at DOMOTO, serving publicly traded and Fortune 500 clients. Before that I designed and built Sonde, a personal project — a real-time XRPL block explorer I took from brand identity through full-stack development — and worked with FirstStrike Research, crypto projects like xrp.cafe and First Ledger, and freelance clients spanning luxury med spas, gyms, online communities, and esports teams.
I bring a modernist, “less noise” approach to everything I make — rooted in Swiss design principles: clarity, structure, and purpose.
I’m fascinated by AI and how it’s reshaping creative work. I use Claude Code every day — not as a shortcut, but as a way to close the gap between idea and execution. Whether it’s accelerating a prototype, writing production code, or pressure-testing a design decision, I’m always exploring new ways to integrate AI into my process.
Based in Denver, Colorado. Open to full-time product design roles and select freelance projects.
Capabilities
Product Design
Brand Design
Layout Design
Motion Design
Web Design
User Experience
Interaction Design
Tools
Figma
Adobe Creative Suite
Framer
Claude Code
Codex
React
TypeScript
Education
BFA, Graphic Design
Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design, 2022—2025
Location
Denver, Colorado
Status
Open to full-time roles and select freelance projects
Experience
- 2019 — Now
- Freelance
- Graphic Designer
- Created brand identities, miscellaneous graphics, and designed apps and websites for startups and local businesses including med-spas, gyms, and online communities.
- 2021 — 2024
- xrp.cafe
- Founding Graphic Designer
- Led the development of xrp.cafe's brand identity and design system, producing website wireframes, event collateral, motion graphics, and 10+ social campaigns that grew the community to 29,000+ members, helped raise $32K for St. Jude's, and over $5 million USD in revenue.
- 2024 — 2025
- firstledger.net
- Senior Brand Designer
- Designed and led the visual identity system for First Ledger, delivering animated promotional campaigns and social content that grew the audience to 42,000+ followers while supporting a platform that has surpassed $1B in trading volume.
- 2025 — Now
- FirstStrike Research
- Brand Designer
- Developed a high-contrast brand identity and product design for FirstStrike Research, a veteran-owned financial platform. Designed a responsive web application featuring real-time market dashboards, AI-driven analysis, portfolio tracking with P&L visualization, and prediction market trading — empowering everyday investors with institutional-grade research tools.
- 2025 — 2026
- Jade Aesthetics
- Designer & Developer
- Designed and developed two complete websites for a premium medical spa — an initial Framer launch followed by a 30+ page SEO-architected Next.js application with perfect Lighthouse accessibility scores and server-side rendering.
- 2025 — 2026
- Sonde
- Personal Project — Designer & Developer
- Designed and built a real-time XRPL block explorer with live WebSocket data streaming, account and transaction exploration, and a typographically driven dark-mode interface — from brand identity through full-stack development.
- 2026 — Now
- DOMOTO
- Digital Designer (Contract)
- Designing and building a multi-brand design-system platform, coded in JavaScript, that gives client companies one navigable home for their living design systems, components, and tokens — architected AI-native so agents can programmatically read design tokens, components, and brand assets. Serving publicly traded and Fortune 500 clients.