Matthew Paul
Independent Product Designer at Toolshed
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Paul is an independent product designer based in Denver with 11 years of experience crafting user interfaces and design systems for startups and large enterprises. He blends product design and design-engineering fluency from stints at InVision, IBM, and Apple to tackle complex tooling and enterprise workflows, and has led design for Inspect UX, licensing procurement flows, and support/assistant interactions. As founding designer at QA Wolf and Staff/Lead roles at The.com and Bubble, he’s comfortable moving between early-stage product discovery and scaling polished interfaces. His consultancy, Toolshed, serves clients like AngelList, Topo Finance, OpenTable, and The.com, demonstrating a mix of strategic thinking and hands-on shipping. Matthew is notable for pairing visual and interaction craft with measurable system adoption work—defining processes, contribution models, and metrics for design systems. He holds a BFA in Graphic Design and often prototypes production-ready interactions, reflecting a rare combination of creative background and engineering collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Graphic Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Graphic Design at University of Minnesota Duluth
Github Skills (36)
gulp-sass9
gulp8
recorder7
css6
javascript6
nodejs5
collections5
jekyll-theme5
chrome5
jekyll5
browser5
tint5
gulp-plugin5
sass5
testing5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
matthewcpaul/things
May 2015 - May 2018
Contributions:84 pushes, 1 branch, 2 issues in 3 years
matthewcpaul/mcp
Sep 2016 - Dec 2022
:sparkles: In other words, this is my website.
Contributions:264 commits, 13 PRs, 458 pushes in 6 years 4 months
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