Ryan Stone
Staff Product Designer at Shopify
Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Stone is a Staff Product Designer with over a decade of experience shaping high-quality multi-platform software at companies like Shopify, Expedia, REI, and QVC. He currently leads design for Shopify’s Retail POS app and has driven major launches—from retail features in the Shop app to redesigned KYC flows that sped merchant onboarding for millions. A pragmatic early adopter of AI tooling, Ryan combines rapid prototyping with systems thinking, having led large-scale design system migrations and cross-functional quality efforts that resolved hundreds of production issues. His entrepreneurial side includes launching successful Shopify stores, a podcast, and iOS/Figma products, and he contributes to open-source iOS work—improving accessibility and VoiceOver features in a popular audiobook player. Based in Georgia, he blends product rigor, accessibility advocacy, and a maker’s instinct to turn complex problems into usable, scalable experiences.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Marketing, Marketing/Graphic Design, B.S. Marketing, Marketing/Graphic Design at West Chester University of Pennsylvania
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Github Skills (13)
accessibility10
audio10
swift10
ios10
player10
unit-testing8
ui-design8
open-source7
nokogiri6
avkit6
mechanize6
ruby6
uiview6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
TortugaPower/BookPlayer
Aug 2018 - Oct 2018
Player for your DRM-free audiobooks
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 33 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily focused on enhancing the accessibility features of the iOS audiobook player application. Their work included adding VoiceOver support to various views, implementing custom accessibility rotors for navigating playlists and books, and adding a gesture for player dismissal. They also refactored code related to VoiceOver and made improvements to the UI, such as updating accessibility labels and hints for improved user interaction. Furthermore, they added support for displaying chapter length, and fixed a test.
audiobooksdrmaudiobookswiftios
swift-miami/algorithms-club
Feb 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:10 commits, 8 PRs, 13 pushes in 9 months
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