Staff Product Designer · Founder, Unruly Vision

Ryan Higgins

Clarity for complex products.

I design enterprise and FinTech products at Chatham Financial, where being wrong is expensive. I'm AI-native, with 18 years of craft underneath it. This year I founded Unruly Vision and shipped Fathom, an AI vision app for blind and low-vision people — solo, to the App Store.

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Case Studies

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Accessibility · AI · Native iOS

Founder · Unruly Vision

Fathom

AI visual assistance for blind and low-vision people, now on the App Store.

Real-time awareness, indoor wayfinding, and step-by-step task help — no maps, no beacons, no sighted guide. I designed and built it solo, concept to App Store in four months, with paying subscribers in week one. I'm part of the community it serves.

Product Design

Staff Product Designer · Chatham Financial

Portfolio Dashboard

Billion-dollar portfolios, one source of truth.

Built a net-new product to replace email and spreadsheets for institutional investors — consolidating debt and derivatives performance data for the first time. Launched in 12 weeks, adopted by five flagship clients, and grew into a multi-product suite.

Brand Campaign · Product Design

Product Design Lead · Chatham Financial

Call the Cup

A CEO challenge became a live World Cup bracket game in three weeks.

Won a competitive UX jam to design and build a World Cup bracket game on cf.com — introducing the Heart/Head/Hedge mechanic, generating the hero video in Veo, building the frontend with Claude Code and Cursor, and launching an Appcues campaign across the platform.

AI / Human-in-the-Loop

UX Lead · Chatham Financial

AI Document Extraction

Loan-contract review cut from hours to minutes — humans still in the loop.

Designed a multi-step AI extraction workflow with review checkpoints where judgment matters most — embedding institutional knowledge into a compliant, scalable platform.

Education · Faculty

Adjunct Faculty · Wilmington University · 14+ yrs

Curriculum Development & Teaching

Fourteen years teaching the discipline, not the tools.

Redesigned three university courses around web standards, design systems, and enterprise UX — moving away from outdated Flash-based content. Hundreds of graduates now working in fintech and design systems roles, several hired directly onto professional teams.

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About

I design for high-stakes clarity.

Seven of my eighteen years have been in FinTech — regulated, audited, dense with data. I'm most energized when the problem is messy. Accessibility is lived expertise: I design with low vision, not just for it.

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18Years designing enterprise & FinTech products
50KLines of production Swift — Fathom, shipped solo
5Flagship clients adopted Portfolio Dashboard in 12 weeks
100sDesign students mentored across 14+ years of teaching

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