Resume, Erik Smith, Design Engineer & UX Designer

Design Engineer and UX/Product Designer with five years of design leadership at IKEA US, now shipping research-driven products end to end. Recent work includes a WCAG-compliant real-time transit app built from real user research (Transit Pulse AX), a fully local multi-agent AI stack (Eris, Letta, llama.cpp + Qwen3.6 35B, 17 agents), an education-first interior-design copilot that learns your taste and sources real furniture across retailers (Alcove), and client websites designed and shipped end to end. Fluent in user research, journey mapping, prototyping, and accessibility, and in the tools that turn designs into working software: Figma, Cursor, and Claude Code.

Experience

Country Interior Design Leader, IKEA US (02/2022 - 08/2026, Conshohocken, PA)
Interior Design Co-worker, IKEA US (02/2021 - 02/2022, Conshohocken, PA)
Guideshop & Sales Manager, Interior Define (07/2019 - 10/2020, Boston, MA / Philadelphia, PA)
Showroom Manager & Render Specialist, Spectrum, A Certified Herman Miller Dealer (07/2018 - 03/2019, Philadelphia, PA)
Interior Designer & Sales Assistant, Roche Bobois (01/2017 - 07/2018, Philadelphia, PA)

Education

B.S. in Interior Design, Jefferson University, East Falls Campus (08/2011 - 05/2015, Philadelphia, PA)

Skills

Design & Product: UX/UI Design, User Research, Prototyping, Journey Mapping, Wireframing, Accessibility (WCAG), Systems Thinking, Service Design, Behavioral UX, Inclusive Design, Localization.
Engineering & AI: Front-end Prototyping, Agentic UX, Multi-Agent Orchestration, RAG Patterns, Generative AI, 3D Visualization.
Tools: Figma, Framer, Relume, 21st.dev, Glyphs, Adobe Leonardo, Cursor, Claude Code.
Business & Leadership: Technical Discovery, ROI Analysis, Cross-Functional Leadership (Situational Leadership-trained), Product Operations.

Erik Smith, Design Engineer & UX Designer