Ryan Arnaudin

I’m an aerospace engineer turned product designer, working at the intersection of people, deep technology, and early-stage innovation. For 15+ years I’ve been the designer who shows up early, defining what to build, shipping it, and making it useful, usable, and worth caring about.

I’m a generalist and a design team of one by default, moving between research and strategy to interaction design, systems, and the final pixels. I’m drawn to the hard, technical domains many designers avoid such as CAD, computer-aided engineering & simulation, additive manufacturing & 3D printing, innovation management, realtime collaboration, and now earth observation & GIS. My engineering background lets me speak the language of the scientists and engineers I design for, and turn genuinely complex problems into products people understand.

Most of my career has been 0-to-1. I’ve helped build four startups (two acquired). I led product & design for a spinout innovation lab at Brightidea. And, even inside a company the size of Autodesk, I worked with the Office of the CTO, Autodesk Labs, and the Emerging Products & Technologies teams to ship experimental simulation apps and cross-divisional innovation projects. In my two most recent roles I joined as the sole designer, stood up the design system & process, and hired the designers who came after me.

Beyond UI and visuals, I believe design is how teams get aligned, how business risk gets reduced, and how we reliably deliver value by solving real problems for real people.

Right now I’m leading product design at SkyFi, opening up satellite imagery and earth observation to everyone. I always enjoy talking shop with people building at the frontier: AI, XR, space, robotics, digital manufacturing, and innovative tools. Reach out if you want to collaborate.

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