Senior Product Designer with 10+ years of experience crafting user-friendly solutions with a positive impact. Blend of creativity and technical expertise across multiple disciplines in product design (UI/UX), design systems, branding & marketing, and more.

Case Studies

Building the Cabells Design System

Comprehensive guidelines and UI components for improving communication and development efficiency between teams

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Optimizing the Journal Search Platform

Improving speed, focus, and accuracy for finding relevant journal information

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Modernizing Journalytics for Medicine

Upgrading a legacy search platform for the medical research community

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Redesigning Cabells Brand

Finding an authentic voice and visual identity to rebuild trust and reconnect with the public

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Personal Work

Promiscuous Bunch - miniature realistic original oil art painting by Ricky Colson.

My Humble Existence – Painting Series

A series of oil paintings reflecting on the conflict between youthful ideals and adulthood. Miniature people living in a giant world of their own creation.

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Dinosaur t rex red painting for sale by Ricky Colson

Zooettes

Colorful, geometric, and minimalistic silhouette designs inspired by a lifelong love of animals and the natural world.

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Black steam train locomotive mountain sepia digital painting by Ricky Colson

Welcome to Autumn – Worldbuilding Project

An open-ended art and research project about a fictional 19th century town in the Blue Ridge Mountains. A study in American history and the struggle of human progress.

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