Herb Harden – AI Product Design Leader & UI Design Engineer
Strategic, hands-on AI Product Design Leader with 15+ years of enterprise experience driving 0-to-1 product strategy, modernizing complex legacy platforms, and building human-in-the-loop AI systems for B2B SaaS ecosystems.
Combines deep UI/UX architecture with advanced AI design engineering capabilities - leveraging Figma, Cursor, and Claude for rapid code-based prototyping, systemic token architectures, and production-grade specifications.
Featured Case Studies
Deep dives into AI systems architecture and enterprise product platforms.
AI Agent Experience Design & UI Engineering
Designing an End-to-End, Node-Based Agentic AI Canvas for Developers
Architected an end-to-end agentic workspace allowing developers to visually inspect GraphQL schemas, configure autonomous agent execution pipelines, and govern AI outputs through built-in Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) safeguards.
JAI: Jaggaer AI Enterprise Conversational Agent Platform
System specifications and non-deterministic state modeling across global enterprise squads.
Dave Financial: Building a Design-to-Code MCP Pipeline
Architected a zero-touch pipeline linking Figma, zeroheight (via MCP), and local IDEs through AI behavioral contracts (design.md)—achieving 100% code parity.
Control hierarchy: User > System > AI
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Authoring UI Behavioral Contracts for Enterpise Platforms
Established structural state boundaries, fallback behaviors, and UI contracts to govern non-deterministic LLM outputs in complex applications.
Enterprise Design Systems, Code-Based Prototyping & UI/UX Design
Audit Management: 0-to-1 Product Design & Code Prototyping
Designed end-to-end UI/UX workflows and leveraged AI rapid prototyping to launch an enterprise Audit Management module for JAGGAER Direct.
Direct Cost-Breakdown: Legacy UI/UX Design Modernization & Code-Based Prototyping
Modernized legacy procurement workflows with high-density UI/UX and code prototyping—locking scope early for engineering handoff.
Jaggaer Enterprise Design System: AI powered by Claude
4 core products & platform stacks, 1 unified design system—translating static foundations into machine-readable contexts for AI interfaces.
Skills & Core Capabilities
- Agentic Experience (AX) Design
- Conversational AI Experience (CAIX)
- Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) Workflows
- Non-Deterministic State Modeling
- Deterministic UI Behavioral Contracts
- Conversational Search & RAG UX
- XAI & Confidence Scoring Visuals
- High-Density SaaS & Enterprise UI
- Rapid Code Sandboxing (Claude / Cursor)
- Figma Systems & Token Architecture
- Generative Layout Systems
- User Flows, Wireframing & Journeys
- WCAG 2.1 AAA Web Accessibility
- Component API Alignment & Handoff
- 0-to-1 Product Ownership
- PM & Engineering Triad Alignment
- AI Governance & Control Hierarchies
- Enterprise System Modernization
- Qualitative Customer Discovery
- Pre-Sprint Technical Framing
- Design Token & System Governance