Layne Smith
Lead UX Designer - Associate Director
Frisco, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLayne Smith is a Lead UX Designer and Associate Director with 12 years of experience shaping enterprise platforms and internal workflows where clarity, adoption, and governance are paramount. At Grant Thornton he directs product design across multi-business portfolios, marrying accessible, risk-aware, AI-integrated experiences with practical design systems that reduce rework and accelerate delivery. He excels at breaking complex problems into testable slices, coaching cross-functional teams to faster decisions, and maintaining a global UX liaison model to keep distributed teams aligned. His background in visual storytelling and a decade in data-driven journalism informs a knack for translating complexity into interfaces teams can build and users can trust. Layne blends hands-on prototyping and front-end craft with strategic governance—building the patterns, specs, and handoff processes that scale consistency in regulated environments. Based in Frisco, Texas, he also brings an indie web developer’s curiosity and a learning technologist’s approach to practical automation and explainable AI in design.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. (2) Journalism and Criminal Justice, B.S. (2) Journalism and Criminal Justice at Texas Christian University
English
Github Skills (30)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
tlayne/tlayne.github.io
Mar 2014 - Apr 2019
Contributions:124 commits, 48 pushes in 5 years 1 month
tlayne/ltec-5421-php
May 2018 - Jan 2020
Contributions:1 push in 1 year 8 months
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