Hybrid product designer · Audits, designs, ships — with AI in the loop

Turning complexity into clarity.

I'm a product designer who started in software engineering and spent a decade in biotech R&D. I diagnose, design and help build software for high-stakes, data-dense domains — increasingly the AI-powered kind — and I make it usable. I design the interface and build the prototype myself — with AI tooling to move faster, not to do the building.

UX & product design Designing AI interfaces Design systems User research Ships in code Engineering background Biotech R&D (research and clinical)
Rob Offutt, product designer

Dallas–Ft Worth based · Learn more about me →

Selected work

Complex, data-dense products — made usable.

NULISA Analysis Software — QC results screen with boxplot and run QC summary table
Featured case study

NULISA Analysis Software — UX audit & redesign

A heuristic UX audit and end-to-end redesign of Alamar Biosciences' R/Shiny proteomics platform — diagnosed against Nielsen's heuristics, rebuilt screen by screen, and implemented directly in code.

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The systems map

A decade-plus across the full genomics-to-diagnostics workflow.

Fifteen shipped products, every stage from assay design to reporting — across genomics, qPCR/dPCR, genetic analysis, and proteomics. I led or owned the design on most, and was sole designer on the flagship platforms.

01 · Assay & panel design
AmpliSeq.com
TaqMan Assay Search Wizard $1M · 1 wk
02 · Instrument & run
Genexus Integrated Sequencer
QuantStudio 7 Pro DX
+ 6 more
03 · Analysis
Diomni Enterprise Software MVP→ship · 3 mo
NULISA Analysis Software shipped in code
+ 2 more
04 · Reporting
Oncomine Reporter
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Companies & clients

Thermo Fisher Scientific Alamar Biosciences Red Hat Fannie Mae The Carlyle Group GlobalFoundries Cars.com

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Why hybrid

Most product designers can't read the codebase they're designing for. Most engineers can't run a heuristic audit or facilitate a user-research session. I do both — and chose biotech because I wanted work with greater impact.

Explore

Currently open

Let’s make complex software usable.

Open to product design roles — biotech and complex software especially. If you’re trying to make something genuinely hard easy to use, I’d love to hear about it.

© 2026 Rob Offutt · Designed and built by hand. No framework, no build step.