Head of Design at Join, helping humanize construction. I prototype in code with AI, and my team ships the same way. Before that, founding designer at Blockdaemon, where design grew from one person (me) to seven, and design lead at Gradle and Walmart.
Ari Zilnik
Design leader who ships.
Selected work
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Prototypes Customers Can Drive
A Claude Code plugin for prototyping on real components and real project numbers.
- Designers on my team building their prototypes in the kit
- 3 of 3
- Product managers building their own prototypes without help from design
- 2

Join
Construction Report Builder
Reports estimators build once and send to owners, and the handoff we had to relearn to ship them.

Gradle
Flexible Filtering for Developer Diagnostics
One typed input for experts and beginners, not a dozen dropdowns.

Join
AI Recommendation Engine
AI finds cost-saving material alternatives inside estimates. Pivoted from marketplace, shipped in two months.

Join
Construction Scenario Comparison
Side-by-side what-if comparison. Owners weigh whole packages, not forty line items.

Blockdaemon
Institutional Crypto Staking Dashboard
Zero-to-one staking dashboard and API marketplace. Shipped while scaling the design org 1 to 7.

Blockdaemon
Node Deployment Flow
Node deployment as e-commerce checkout. Self-serve replaced a multi-week sales cycle — usage grew 23x.