Ryan Scheuer

Design Engineer

Hey, I'm Ryan. I'm an art director, designer, developer, writer, and type enthusiast. I like thinking about component libraries, design systems, and microinteractions.

I'm currently working at OpenAI as a design engineer. Before that, I worked as an art director and design engineer at Coinbase

I'm also a co-founder of Spiritual Engineering, a design and development studio.

In 2019, I started an online community for type designers and creative coders called ECCO. We host workshops, crits, and collaborative design projects.

The Problem:  Keep core branding intact while shifting product strategy.

A friendlier look.  Giving life to in-app illustrations.

Storytelling.  Bringing in life to static UI components.

Refactoring...  Keeping the old art direction intact as texture.

Sparking joy.  A cleaner interface mixed with fun easter eggs and interactions.

Base.org

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Design & development for Base. Blending product with marketing, base.org is a the entrypoint to the Base ecosystem.

Basecamp 2025.  Streamlining design production with a flexible system.

Performance-friendly chaos.  A custom render pass based on the core brand.

Basecamp

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Identity, typography, custom brand tool, and object design for Basecamp in Stowe, Vermont.

The Problem:  Genius needed an extremely flexible system for building microsites.

2025 Year In Review.  Custom components, lyrics text rendering, social embeds.

Custom editor-friendly components.

Robust theming system.

Genius Collections

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Design & development for Genius's multi-page builder with an emphasis on art direction.

Design, engineering.

Spiritual Engineering

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Selected projects from my design studio. Clients include Hidden NY, Louis Vuitton, Genius.com, and more.

Graphic Design™

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Pushing the capabilities of a cracked version of Photoshop.

How I Work

I jump between figma and code to build high-fidelity prototypes early. Static mocks hide too many edge cases.

The work I'm most proud of lives at the edge of what a designer would ship and what an engineer would spec. That's where I feel most useful.

Work

Design Engineer

2026+

AD / Design Engineer

2024-26

UX Engineer

2023-24

Designer & Engineer

2020-23

Co-Founder

2020+

Production Designer

2017-20

Thank you