About

I design AI products, and I build them.

I’m a product designer who thrives at small, fast startups, wearing many hats and owning the product from a vague idea to shipped software. Each company has meant a new, deeply technical niche to learn: cyber insurance, freight, logistics, recruiting, and now residential construction. What stays constant is taking something complex and making it feel obvious, and increasingly building it myself.

Daniel Fitzpatrick at his desk
Track record

Over a decade of startups that worked out.

First designer at four of them: Bizzen, Parade, Corvus, and SmashFly, joining as early as employee #5 and building the product and the design function from scratch.

  • Since 2025 Bizzen CURRENT Designing & building AI for residential construction. → case study
  • 2024–25 Stord AI-FIRST · $3B UNICORN Product design at scale in AI-first logistics.
  • 2022–24 Parade GENAI · 0→1 GenAI for freight carrier inquiries. → case study
  • 2018–22 Corvus ACQUIRED · TRAVELERS Helped build a cyber-insurance startup to a successful exit.
  • 2014–18 SmashFly Helped build a recruitment-marketing platform.
  • 2013–14 Bullhorn Product design for recruitment software.
How I work
  • Designing AI products: agents, copilots, conversational UX
  • 0→1 product design: discovery, prototyping, iteration
  • Building it: front-end code (especially CSS), shipping without handoff
  • Design systems & simplifying complex, technical problems
  • Working AI-natively: directing AI to design and build faster
Education Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) logo

BFA, Graphic Design, 2007