Sam Lane

Is a Senior Product Designer who bridges user and business needs with strong attention to detail and visual craft. Beyond design, he ships code to production, builds autonomous agentic workflows, and educates teams on AI.

  • Product Design and Development

    Cantina

    A year designing the web product and building agentic pipelines in their repo, empowering the design team to ship production-ready code and cutting out the back and forth between design and engineering. Then helped build the front end on that system.

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  • Product Design

    Clear Space

    Designed the UX and UI from onboarding through the core experience, leveling up the visual language and creating a consistent design system.

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  • Skool
    Design Systems

    Skool

    Extracted a functional atomic design system from their existing designs, so the team can keep moving quickly and consistently.

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  • Sanlo
    Product and Web Design

    Sanlo

    Designed Financial Intelligence and a no-code Webshop builder for gaming studios, from 0 → 1.

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  • Units
    Product Design

    Units

    A fresh, accessible take on sports betting. MVP product design, design system, and marketing site.

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  • Octopus
    Product Design

    Octopus

    A Brazilian workforce and payroll platform. MVP payroll audit and design system, designed from the ground up.

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  • Marker
    Web Design

    Marker

    A month-long redesign of the marketing site for a learning-assessment company.

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  1. Current!
    • I am building agentic systems.
    • I am developing software.
    • I am designing cool UI.
    • I am learning how to be a father of 2 beautiful boys!
  2. 2026
    • I get promoted to senior product designer.
  3. 2025
    • I built and launched my first web app.
    • I shipped my first iOS app.
    • I begin building agentic workflows.
  4. 2024
    • I joined the talented team at Iverson.inc as the third full time hire.
    • We welcome our second baby boy into the world.
  5. 2023
    • My baby boy is born and I become a dad, fulfilling a life-long dream.
    • SVB goes under, and I get laid off from Upperstudy.
    • I join the wonderful team at Sanlo as the only product designer.
  6. 2022
    • I join Upperstudy as a product designer and proceed to design 3+ MVP's for start ups.
    • My wife and I discover she is pregnant with a baby boy!
  7. 2021
    • I land my first full time product design role.
  8. 2020
    • Somehow, I convince the most wonderful woman to marry me!
    • I land my first paid design gig.
    • The world shuts down.
  9. 2019
    • By chance I end up giving Ridd a ride through the rocky mountains, and he offers to help me learn design.
  10. 2018
    • I start dating my now wife!
  11. 2017
    • Looking for a career change, I start exploring CSS again.
  12. 2016
    • I discover my love for poetry and begin to write my own.
  13. 2014
    • I drop out of high school and start working as an irrigation tech.
  14. 2013
    • I get my first iPhone and realize Androids are not that great.
    • Attempt to teach myself JS and CSS.
  15. 2012
    • The Mayans were wrong.
    • I get promoted to Captain of my high school debate team.
  16. 2009
    • My family purchased our first iMAC, and I spend HOURS exploring all the delightful interactions and features.
    • I started to dabble in 3D modeling with AOI.
  17. 2008
    • I discovered my love for sketching and started to draw too many pictures of dragons.
  18. 2007
    • Apple launches the original iPhone.
    • I experience the magic technology can bring to our lives.
  19. 2004
    • I see the ocean for the first time.
  20. 2000
    • I gain self awareness and begin to plot for world domination.
  21. 1996
    • I join the human race!