Malik SpearmanSenior Product Designer · St. Louis, MO

Designing for the people who do the work.

Ten years designing AI and regulated enterprise software in energy, healthcare and field service. Open to senior and lead product design roles.

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$2.7M

new ARR from the Aspire Customer Portal

63%

less call handle time with Athena AI

89%

less time to assign routes at Aspire

83%

fewer assignment support requests at DragonFly

The work.

Ameren

Athena AI

Policy answers in seconds, on a live call. Call handle time down 63%.

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Aspire

AI Route Optimizer

Every crew’s day, planned in minutes. Route assignment time down 89%.

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Aspire

Customer Portal

One portal for a homeowner and a property manager. $2.7M in new ARR.

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More work.

Aspire

Portals design system

One client-themeable library behind three portals, with contrast built in.

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Opportunity@Work

Career site onboarding

A choice-first flow for users who never finished a profile.

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Mattress Firm

Point of sale redesign

One left-to-right home screen for the most common tasks.

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Dreamline AI · Community Dreams

Learner dashboard

Progress, next task and next deadline on desktop and mobile.

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Empathy, learned on the front line.

My career began in customer service, using software clearly never built for the people operating it. I started making mockups at my first job without being asked, and that instinct became a career, from Mattress Firm to Google to clinical, utility and field-service platforms where interface errors have real consequences.

Malik Spearman in an office

How I work.

Design-led innovation.

Workflows understood, roles mapped and failure states covered before a frame is touched.

Between human and AI.

I design for doubt as much as confidence, making the system’s reasoning legible, not just its output.

Research first.

Friction is rarely where stakeholders think it is. I ask the right people before a single wireframe.

Design systems.

Four systems, each one built with engineering so design and code stay in step.

Ameren

Enterprise design system.

Built on MUI conventions to standardize 8+ digital products. Tokens, variants and motion specs map directly to the React build.

~25% faster design-to-dev handoff, tracked by Jira cycle time

Interlace Health

Clinical-grade design system.

WCAG 2.1 AA and Section 508 compliant, with component specs in Figma Dev Mode and token-level documentation.

Fewer implementation inconsistencies across the platform

Aspire Software

Universal design system.

Aligned to Aspire’s React component framework and MUI APIs, and used across 5+ products.

~30% less time to design a new screen

DragonFly Athletics

Product design system.

A Figma design system and mobile component library, checked against live builds in Vercel preview deploys.

Live builds validated against design intent

Experience.

  • AmerenUX/UI Design Lead, via Adaptive Solutions GroupNov 2025 – Present
  • DragonFly AthleticsHead of Product DesignDec 2024 – Nov 2025
  • Interlace HealthUX/UI Design LeadJun 2023 – Aug 2024
  • Opportunity@WorkSenior UX/UI DesignerMay 2022 – Jun 2023
  • Aspire SoftwareUX/UI DesignerMay 2021 – May 2022
  • GoogleUX Designer, intern then full-timeJun 2018 – Mar 2021
  • Mattress FirmUX/UI DesignerMay 2017 – Jun 2018
  • Nightscout FoundationUX/UI DesignerOct 2015 – May 2017

How I use AI.

Designing AI people can trust.

At Ameren, Athena answered policy questions on live calls. The work was deciding when it shows its sources, how sure it sounds, and when it hands off to a person.

Building with AI tools.

At DragonFly I prototyped in HTML and shipped production code with AI coding tools, taking My Assignments from concept to production in three weeks.

Let’s work together.

Available for new projects in AI, 0–1, design systems and research.