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Crafting High-Performance Digital Experiences.

Web & UI/UX Designer specializing in helping startups build world-class products.

27+
Years of experience
300+
Websites hand-coded
Summit Creative Award winner
Services

What I do

A full-stack design perspective — from strategy and research to high-fidelity, handoff-ready product design.

Web Design

Marketing sites that convert users into customers — fast, responsive, and built to perform.

UI/UX Design

User-centric interfaces for complex SaaS platforms, grounded in research and design systems.

Mobile App Design

Intuitive iOS and Android product experiences, from concept to App Store launch.

Skills

Core competencies

Most designers think either visually or technically. I do both — pairing design craft with production-level front-end skill, a strategy-first mindset, and hands-on agentic AI development.

Design

  • UI/UX Design
  • Design Systems
  • High-Fidelity Prototyping
  • Responsive Web Design
  • Mobile App Design (iOS/Android)
  • Brand Identity & Creative Direction
  • Interaction Design
  • Wireframing

Technical

  • HTML5 / CSS3 / JavaScript
  • PHP / jQuery / Bootstrap
  • Figma / Adobe Creative Suite
  • Webflow / WordPress
  • Responsive Front-End Development
  • Handoff-Ready Deliverables

Strategy

  • UX Research & Strategy
  • A/B Testing & Optimization
  • Agile Product Collaboration
  • SEO / SEM
  • Enterprise & White-Label Solutions
  • Growth Marketing & PPC Creative

AI & Agentic Development

  • AI-Assisted Design & Prototyping
  • Claude Code (Agentic Development)
  • Context Engineering
  • Prompt Engineering & Test-Driven Development
  • Model Context Protocol (MCP)
  • AI-Assisted Git → Vercel Deployment

Industry experience

  • FinTech
  • Real Estate SaaS
  • E-Commerce
  • Legal Marketing
  • Hospitality
  • Automotive
  • Health & Wellness
  • Event Ticketing
  • Architecture
  • Blockchain Applications
  • Enterprise Software
Work

Selected work

A look at the products, dashboards, and interfaces I design — crafted for clarity and built to convert.

Background

Two decades at the intersection of design & code

A career spanning SaaS, fintech, real estate, e-commerce, mobile, and enterprise marketing — an unusually broad foundation for solving complex design challenges.

  1. 01

    60% company growth at PropStream

    Contributed creative strategy to initiatives that drove a 60% increase in company growth.

  2. 02

    PropStream's first native iPhone app

    Led the design and launch from concept to App Store, delivering a consistent iOS/Android experience.

  3. 03

    PropStream Academy

    Architected a customer education platform that measurably reduced support ticket volume and improved retention.

  4. 04

    Blockchain-secured loan application

    Designed multi-persona UX with distinct, role-specific interfaces for buyers, vendors, and loan officers within one design system.

  5. 05

    Scalable Figma design systems

    Built and maintained systems across multiple SaaS products, compressing design-to-dev handoff and ensuring visual consistency.

  6. 06

    37 law firm websites

    Deployed through a custom Bootstrap templating system, dramatically improving production efficiency and consistency.

Awards

Two-time Summit Creative Award winner (2013) for design excellence.

Education

Bachelor of Arts in Art & Design

The Art Institute of Cincinnati · 1998

Trusted by Industry Leaders

PropStream logo
PropertyReach logo
AVID AIR logo
peoplefinders logo
STÖHN logo
Damien Komala smiling in a studio portrait
About

Design craft meets technical fluency.

I'm a Senior UI/UX and Web Designer with over 27 years of experience across SaaS, fintech, real estate, and e-commerce. Having hand-coded 300+ websites, I design with a deep understanding of what's actually buildable — eliminating friction between the design studio and the development sprint.

I've led design for products like PropStream's first native iPhone app and PropStream Academy, and I build scalable design systems in Figma that compress design-to-dev handoff and keep experiences consistent across platforms.