PRODUCT DESIGNER · AI DELIVERY LEAD

I am Robert Marsch, a product designer. I design AI-native products and run the delivery that ships them as working code, not just prototypes.

UX research and AI-native workflows, turned into products that ship as production code.

Robert Marsch
METRO MANILA
ABOUT

I design products for complex, multi-stakeholder problems.

I'm a product designer and product owner working on complex, multi-stakeholder digital transformations for government and enterprise clients. I pair rigorous UX research with AI-enhanced workflows to ship scalable design systems, product roadmaps, and the delivery that puts them into production.

Recently I led product strategy for government tourism platforms serving 800,000+ monthly visitors, ran pod-based AI delivery for a Middle East resident super-app, and managed cross-functional teams of 20+. I care about the boundary where design becomes working software.

FOCUS
  • AI-native product design and delivery
  • UX research and CX strategy
  • Design systems, shipped as code
  • Multi-stakeholder digital transformation
TOOLKIT
Figma Claude Code Figma + Playwright MCP React Native + NativeWind Jira + Confluence Adobe Suite Webflow
CASE STUDY

Five products, one ecosystem.

The client is a leading Middle East real estate developer. We rebuilt the resident lifestyle app its communities use every day: property requests, payments, education fees, rewards, and more. Five fragmented products merged into one AI-native ecosystem, 400+ screens shipped as production-ready code in six weeks.

AI DELIVERY LEAD · 8-DESIGNER POD · MIDDLE EAST REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER · 2025
400+
SCREENS REDESIGNED
6 wks
IDEA TO SHIPPED CODE
3–5 d
PROTOTYPE TO MERGED PR
THE CHALLENGE

Five fragmented products, each with its own patterns, and residents felt the seams.

The client's challenge: rebuild the whole thing as one ecosystem, AI-native, in six weeks. No traditional agency process could hit that.

THE BET

The team was restructured around the AI workflow.

The pod

Eight designers, new roles: a Delivery Lead on rhythm and quality, an Experience Architect on vision, an AI Operator on the system, designers on the screens.

Rails before speed

Weeks 1 to 3: align the design system with reality. The live app and Figma converge, and the agent closes each gap with a designer in the loop.

The loop, not the meeting

Ideate, Pull, Verify, Build, QA, Ship. The prototype is the brief. One ticket, one session, one PR.

DESIGN SYSTEM · HOW WE UPDATED IT Bringing the design system up to speed Before the coding agent can generate against the system, the system has to match reality. Two sources converge, gaps get mapped, and the design agent closes them. Weeks 1 to 3. 01 · SOURCES Two inputs LIVE Production app Live + staging, read via mobile MCP SOURCE Figma DS file Tagged + defined via MCP bridge, spec written through to docs 02 · DIFF Map the gaps Where the live app drifts from spec. Where Figma drifts from both. Resolved against the governance layer. Design_System_Gaps.md DS_Rules+Governance.md 03 · RESOLVE The design agent closes them DS Mode pairs the designer with the AI agent. Each gap resolved against the rules. AI agent · DS Mode Designer in the loop 04 · OUTPUT One aligned system An updated Figma file, round-tripped through a custom design-agent to Figma plugin. Full compatibility, both directions. Updated_DS.fig After this, the coding agent generates on solid rails.
01 / BRINGING THE DESIGN SYSTEM UP TO SPEED
THE LOOP Prototype to merged PR, in six steps How a ticket moves through the pod. Coordination happens in the loop, not in meetings. 01 Ideate EXPERIENCE ARCHITECT Workshops the flow. Audits the UX. The prototype is the brief. 02 Pull AI PRODUCT DESIGNER Lifts the prototype in via the Figma MCP. Tickets and PRDs write themselves into Jira. 03 Verify DELIVERY LEAD + DESIGNER Walk the backlog together before any code runs. 04 Build AI PRODUCT DESIGNER Pairs with the coding agent. One ticket, one session, one PR. 05 QA EXPERIENCE ARCHITECT Closes the last 20%. Click what's off; the agent reads the note, fixes, redeploys. 06 Ship AI DELIVERY LEAD Reviews the diff against the brief. Verifies, then approves merge to staging. 3-5 days THE POD LOOP · PROTOTYPE TO MERGED PR 2 wks TRADITIONAL AGILE SPRINT · IDEA TO PROTOTYPE ONLY
02 / THE LOOP · ONE TICKET, ONE SESSION, ONE PR
HOW WE WORK Executing the redesign, feature set by feature set Less alignment overhead. More shipped work. Every feature set runs the same four steps, scoped tight so each session compounds into output. 01 · INPUT A set of related features Multiple tickets that belong together. Tightly scoped. Worked rapidly because they share context. APP-142..145 · 4 tickets 02 · WORK Shared workspace A git worktree where the whole feature set lives. Same context, same session. OWNER Designer Owns the work. Makes the calls. ENGINE Coding agent + MCP Production-ready code, scoped to the set. RAILS Design system Read-only. Grounds every decision. 03 · GATE Lead review QA against the system. Source of truth. Against tokens + components 04 · OUTPUT Shipped Merged into staging. Reviewed in context, then promoted to live. merged Rapid because the work compounds inside one workspace. Accurate because the design system is the source of truth that grounds every output.
03 / FEATURE SET BY FEATURE SET
THE HARD PART

The hard part wasn't the tech. It was not going back to the old way.

Midway through, the client's internal teams pushed to fall back to manual Figma production, the way redesigns had always been done. As delivery lead I kept the pod on the AI workflow. Reverting would have lost the compounding gains that made the six-week timeline work.

The tooling is repeatable. Staying with it under pressure is what got the work shipped.

WHAT SHIPPED

Every screen rebuilt. Delivered as code, not prototypes.

React Native styled with NativeWind. Files the client's engineers could open, review, and take straight into production.

Resident app home, furniture packages and services Wallet, points and payments Property requests and tracking Rewards and member experiences

“This is real transformation. This team is in the top 10% of AI adoption globally.”

CLIENT HEAD OF DIGITAL, NAMING THE POD AI ADOPTION CHAMPION AHEAD OF THEIR OWN TEAMS

WHAT I LEARNED
01
AI-native delivery is a team and process problem, not a tooling problem.
02
Three weeks aligning the design system up front made the next three weeks fast.
03
We shipped code as an accelerator. Production stayed with the client's engineers.
04
A new workflow needs one clear owner, or it gets dropped under deadline pressure.
MORE WORK

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Earlier research and strategy work across gaming, femtech, consulting, and construction.

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165+
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Let's build
the next one.

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