About Timothy Ali, UX & Product Designer in Denver
I’m a designer and a builder. I like to take my work from ideation to production: brand, product, motion, and front end.
In 2021 I cofounded xrp.cafe, an NFT marketplace, and led its brand while I earned my BFA. It grew past 32,000 members and $5 million in sales. Today I’m building Pocketwatch, a personal-finance app where I handle the brand, the product design, and the front end.
My foundation is modernist: clarity, structure, purpose. That foundation has taught me restraint, but also an understanding of where the rules can be broken.
I believe in AI as a tool, and I use it every day. It shortens the path from idea to working product and lets me do the work of several people on my own.
Based in Denver, Colorado. Open to full-time design roles and select freelance projects.
Capabilities
Product Design
Brand Design
Motion Design
Interaction Design
Web Design
Front-End Development
Tools
Figma
Adobe Creative Suite
Framer
Claude Code
Codex
Svelte
React
TypeScript
Education
BFA, Graphic Design
Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design, 2022–2025
Recognition
Ripple credited First Ledger with Q4 2024 XRPL growth
First Ledger in every Messari XRPL report since Q2 2024
xrp.cafe profiled by Messari, featured on the XRPL blog
xrp.cafe backed by the XRPL Accelerator
Experience
- 2019 — Now
- Freelance
- Graphic Designer
- Built brand identities, graphics, apps, and websites for startups and local businesses, including med-spas, gyms, and online communities.
- 2021 — 2024
- xrp.cafe
- Cofounder & Founding Designer
- Cofounded xrp.cafe and built its brand identity and design system: website wireframes, event collateral, motion graphics, and 10+ social campaigns that grew the community to 32,000+ members, helped raise $32K for St. Jude's, and brought in over $5 million in revenue.
- 2024 — 2025
- firstledger.net
- Senior Brand Designer
- Designed and led the visual identity system for First Ledger. Animated campaigns and social content grew the audience to 42,000+ followers while the platform passed $1B in trading volume.
- 2025 — Now
- FirstStrike Research
- Brand Designer
- Built a high-contrast, retro-inspired brand identity for FirstStrike Research, a veteran-owned financial research company: wordmark, color system, typography, and brand guidelines applied across web, social, and print.
- 2025 — 2026
- Jade Aesthetics
- Designer & Developer
- Designed and built two websites for a premium medical spa: a first launch in Framer, then a 30+ page SEO-architected Next.js application with 100 Lighthouse accessibility scores and server-side rendering.
- 2025 — 2026
- Sonde
- Personal Project: Designer & Developer
- Designed and built a real-time XRPL block explorer, from brand identity through full-stack development: live WebSocket data streaming, account and transaction exploration, and a typographically driven dark-mode interface.
- 2026 — Now
- Pocketwatch
- Cofounder & Chief Design Officer
- Cofounded Pocketwatch, a subscription personal-finance app, with one engineering partner. Designed the brand, design system, and product, and built the front end in SvelteKit. Live at pocketwatch.io with paying subscribers.
- 2026 — Now
- DOMOTO
- Digital Designer (Contract)
- Designing and building a multi-brand platform that gives client companies one home for their living design systems, components, and tokens. Built AI-native: agents can read tokens, components, and brand assets directly. Serving publicly traded and Fortune 500 clients.