Designer, builder,
professional noticer.

Nine years of turning ambiguous problems into products that ship — and stick. I believe the best design is the kind you stop noticing.

Chris Terterian CT Based in Los Angeles

I started in web design, got pulled into product, and realized the two were never meant to be separate. Today I lead end-to-end initiatives for products at scale — and the craft obsession from those early days is still doing most of the work.

My practice lives at the intersection of systems thinking and visual judgment. I work structure-first — architecture, flows, edge cases — because that's what makes the polish actually mean something. Then I work the polish, because that's what makes people trust it.

I've shipped 0→1 products, built design systems that outlived their first team, and driven research that moved roadmaps. I can also build what I design, which changes how decisions get made: every design choice has a build cost, and every build decision is a product decision.

Right now I'm focused on AI as a product surface — not as a feature to bolt on, but as a shift in how interfaces reason, respond, and scale. It's not adjacent to how I work. It's changing what the problems are.

9+

Years of experience

40+

Products shipped

12

Design awards

Services, sharpened

01

Product Design

End-to-end design from discovery to delivery — flows, wireframes, high-fidelity UI, and the specs engineers actually want to read.

02

UX Strategy & Research

Generative and evaluative research that de-risks roadmaps. I turn user insight into decisions, not decks that gather dust.

03

Design Systems

Token architecture, component libraries, and governance models that let teams ship faster without sanding off the brand.

04

Prototyping & Motion

High-fidelity interactive prototypes that make ideas tangible — because the best stakeholder alignment tool is something you can touch.

The road so far

Meridian Labs

Principal Product Designer

2023 — Present

Ledgerline

Design Lead, Core Banking

2020 — 2023

Pulseframe Health

Senior Product Designer

2018 — 2020

Studio North

Product Designer

2017 — 2018

Sound like
your kind of person?

I'm always up for a conversation about thorny product problems.

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