Designing products, systems, and everything in between.

I’m Elliot Rylands, a senior product designer based in Calgary, Alberta, with seventeen years working across government, healthcare, SaaS, and consumer products. Most of my work lives somewhere between UX, systems thinking, and engineering. The complicated bits. Legacy platforms. AI tooling. Design systems that need to survive real production environments.

I’ve led work for UK Government platforms, healthcare products, enterprise, and fast-moving startups. The kind of products where decisions ripple through teams, codebases, and entire customer journeys. My approach is usually the same: reduce noise, create structure, and help teams move with confidence.

Alongside design, I build. Front-end in React and Next.js, Figma plugins, prototypes, internal tools, and increasingly AI-assisted workflows that help ideas move faster from concept to production. I like understanding how things actually work, not just how they look in a deck.

Outside work, I spend a lot of time around music, guitars, recording gear, and side projects. Most of the best design thinking comes from building things without overthinking them first.