Chris Hartley

Senior UX Designer

Chris Hartley is a Senior UX Designer. Since 2020, he has led human-centered design for consumer, defense, and pharmaceutical products. His current focus is creating and scaling design systems that unify a multi-brand, multi-product IoT ecosystem. Before SEP, Chris spent nearly a decade blending marketing design, creative direction, and commercial photography, and running a boutique marketing agency along the way. His diverse background informs the strategic yet hands-on approach he brings to every project.

He attended the University of Indianapolis, earning a BFA in Visual Communication Design.

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Posts by Chris

AI & Data | 4 min read

I Had Claude Design an App via Figma Console MCP. Here’s What Happened.

I connected Claude to Figma via the Figma Console MCP and gave it one task: build an app with a scalable design system from scratch. Here’s what worked, what broke, and what it changed about how I specify design work.

Product Design & UX | 5 min read

Tearing Down the Silos: 3 Ways to Foster Better Collaboration

Collaboration between design and development has historically been an uphill battle. It used to be that a designer (or team of designers) designed a software application, and then handed it over the fence to the software engineers and wished them the best of luck. As you can imagine, this silo approach ended in unexpected results […]

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