PHILIP LEVY | Portfolio

Work

These are some professional projects I’ve contributed to over the years, with a focus on large-scale, complex, enterprise products.

Appian Process HQ

Making process mining more accessible to business analysts by simplifying complex data prep and analysis activities with no-code elegance and AI intelligence.

Blackboard Ultra

Contributing product designer to ground-up redesign of the Blackboard learning management system. Heavily based on ethnographic research with teachers and students.

U.S. Web Design System

Supported a government contract working with the USWDS team, including working directly on the Breadcrumb component.

Starfish

Lead designer on effort to modernize college student retention system, informed by direct, on-campus research with students and advisors and enabled by a new tech stack using React and Material UI.

Side Projects

These are some of my passion projects, including a more recent focus on vibe-coding with AI.

GiftHorse

A gift-sharing app for families and friends, vibe-coded with the Replit AI Agent. I made this for family use during the 2024 holiday to get our gifting plans out of emails. And it mostly worked.

A podcast player web app template anyone can use to subscribe and listen to their favorite podcasts. Simply copy the template, add your subs, and publish! Jekyll builds a static site you can take anywhere, or host on GitHub Pages. No authoritarian app ecosystem — just you and your pods.

Typeset.css

A drop-in, zero-config relational style sheet for better web typography I made based on the principles outlined in Flexible Typography by Tim Brown.

Unsuck Your Typography

A straightforward guide to better typography anyone can use — special design skills or tools not required.

Plain Vanilla GitHub Pages

The easiest way for low-tech people like me to create and host basic web pages for free on GitHub Pages. Just copy the template, turn on publishing, and add your Markdown content to the homepage.

USWDS Screener Prototyping Tool

A customizable form for prototyping a screener experience using the U.S. Web Design System and GitHub Pages. The template can be copied and modified without any installs or local builds.

Me

I started my educational journey in music production and engineering and wound my way through web development and instructional design before discovering user experience and product design.

Currently, I’m a Lead UX Designer at Appian, a leader in low-code development and process automation, focusing on improving the low-code developer experience and lowering the barriers to process mining.

I’m an AI-optimist, and I’m excited about the future potential of working alongside AI agents. I also think it’s important for designers to learn about the history of our practice, so I started a podcast called Designer Sketches to profile the lives and work of influential designers of the past century. (Though it has been languishing a bit as I’ve been focused on making stuff with AI for both work and side projects.)

Hi! I’m Philip. This is my portfolio.