the kitchen is open
I'm Jesvian, a product designer in Atlanta. Before design I was a backend engineer and a technical product owner at Cigna, so I design for real people and real backends: payments, healthcare, startups and games.
Most products break at the handoff between what people need, what the business wants, and what engineering can actually build. I've worked every seat of that handoff. So I design for the real user, argue with evidence, and hand off work a team can ship.
Great kitchens rotate cooks through every station so they understand the whole line. My career did the same. Here's what each station taught me, and what it means for your team.
Cigna · TECDP rotation
I wrote the services behind the screens. I learned what an API contract costs, why "just add a field" is never just, and how to read a system before redrawing it.
Cigna · 2021–2023
I ran a $1.63M security software transition across four scrum teams. I learned to turn fuzzy asks into acceptance criteria, prioritize by impact, and say "not yet" with evidence.
Cigna · 2023–2025
I redesigned a contract-renewal tool used by 100+ analysts and 5,000 hospitals, and helped build a 150-component design system, with a CS degree in my back pocket.
MyWorker.AI · 2025
Six months at an early-stage startup: founder interviews, usability tests, a 20-component system, and a hard feasibility pivot that got a smaller, clearer MVP out the door.
U.S. Bank · 2026–now
Right now: design-system and accessibility compliance on a payments platform with 150,000+ monthly users. Big line, strict standards, no room for sloppy plates.
Cozy Draft · side project
What the crew eats between services. I designed and built a real-time draft tool for my own League team, then opened it to five more. React, Firebase and a lot of playtesting.
Five courses, five kitchens: healthcare, a startup, a game tool, enterprise payments and a mobile app. Each one covers the problem, the wrong turns, the trade-offs and what changed.
Redesigning a contract-renewal tool for 100+ analysts and 5,000 hospitals. Renewals got 70% faster, saving about $20M a year.
Dense data, made calm.
Read the case studyA sales concierge founders would trust, rescoped into an MVP engineering could actually ship.
Product thinking under ambiguity.
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A real-time draft prep tool for League of Legends teams. I designed it, built it, and playtest it every week with my own roster.
Designing and shipping it myself.
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Auditing and rebuilding 49 screens of an enterprise payments platform to accessibility and design-system standards.
Craft at enterprise scale.
Read the case studyMaking cold showers a habit, not a hurdle, with clearer progress, friendly competition and a colder palette.
Interaction & visual craft.
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A scripted recreation of the text-based chat MVP I designed at MyWorker.AI. Every beat is a decision our research forced. Play with it and watch the notes light up.
Principles are cheap. These came out of real research sessions, a real feasibility pivot, a lot of accessibility audits, and a few designs I had to let go of.
I've written the backend. A concept that can't ship is a mood board. I bring engineering in early and design the version that launches.
Seen in MyWorker.AI →An analyst juggling 200 renewals. Five players with 30 seconds to pick. Dense information is fine when the next action is obvious.
Seen in Cigna Renewals →Show value before you ask for anything: a draft before the signup, your progress before the paywall, a lobby before the login.
Seen in Wim Hof →Contrast, focus order, error states and breakpoints go in the recipe, not on top at the end. It's cheaper, and nobody gets left out of the meal.
Seen in U.S. Bank →
Chef on duty
I'm Jesvian, a product designer based in Atlanta. I came to design through computer science: Cigna's TECDP program rotated me from backend engineer to technical product owner to UX designer, and today I design for U.S. Bank's enterprise payments platform.
That path is my edge. I know what a feature costs to build, how a backlog gets negotiated, and how to turn research into something a team can ship. When I'm off the clock I build too: Cozy Draft started as a tool for my own League team.
"Food is art, and every dish tells a story." Same goes for products.