Hi, I’m Steven Monroe.
Senior
Product
Designer.
“I cry at bad UX so your users don’t have to.”
· Based in Amsterdam
Selected work
Four cases. Problem, role, process, outcome — in that order.
01 · Toyota · Corporate observability · Enterprise B2B
Toyota DEPOT: bringing corporate observability into one place
Unifying roughly 20 reporting applications into one role-aware platform with a clear view across departments.
- ~20 → 1
- Reporting applications brought into one experience
- Role-aware
- A single point of entry for different user needs
- 2 themes
- Light and dark designs for every screen
02 · Pratt & Whitney · Aerospace · Data-heavy enterprise
Replacing a 20-year legacy system for aerospace test engineers
Turning dense engine test data into an interface aero thermal engineers can read at a glance.
- 20+ yrs
- Legacy system replaced end to end
- 3
- Distinct expert user groups served by one system
- 1
- Design system carried into engineering delivery
03 · HomeJetter · Marketplace · Consumer mobile
Zero to one: brand, product, and design system for a services startup
Building trust into a marketplace where strangers come into your home.
- 3 steps
- Booking flow reduced to three intuitive steps
- 0 → 1
- Brand, product, and system built from scratch
- MVP
- Investor-ready product and pitch deck for a bootstrapped startup
04 · Striveworks · MLOps · Technical B2B
Making machine learning training legible to the people who run it
A wireframe concept for configuring, monitoring, and comparing ML training jobs.
- 3 flows
- Initiate, monitor, and compare training runs
- Modular
- Patterns designed to scale across the platform
- Concept
- Delivered as a blueprint for engineering
Other Projects
About
A designer who stays until it ships.
I have spent a decade designing high-visibility applications for clients in aerospace, automotive, financial services, government, and the private sector. My strongest work happens where the domain is hard and the users are experts — the places where a confusing screen costs hours, money, or safety.
I work embedded with engineering. That means prototypes reviewed with developers before users see them, design systems that survive handoff, and design QA every sprint. I am as comfortable running a contextual inquiry as I am specifying a component's states.
Now based in Amsterdam and looking for a senior role in a product team that takes research seriously and ships often.
Research that changes decisions
User research, interviews, and moderated usability testing — grounded in the real work of the people using the product.
Complex, high-stakes systems
Aerospace test data, corporate observability, MLOps. Dense information, expert users, real consequences when the hierarchy is wrong.
Design systems and handoff
Reusable component systems, WCAG-minded patterns, and design QA through agile delivery so what ships is what was tested.
Zero to one
Brand, voice, product, and system built from nothing — through investor-ready prototypes and into an MVP.
Toolkit
- User research
- Contextual inquiry
- Usability testing
- Information architecture
- Interaction design
- Figma
- Design systems
- Prototyping
- Accessibility (WCAG)
- Mobile-first design
- HTML/CSS
- Motion & storytelling