Ryan Colgin

A resumeless hiring platform connecting job seekers and employers through profiles, questions, and short video interviews.

Acrew was a two-sided hiring marketplace designed to help employers and job seekers connect beyond the traditional resume. Job seekers could create profiles, browse opportunities, apply to jobs, and track their application history. Employers could create company profiles, post opportunities, ask candidates screening questions, review applicants, and stay in touch through the platform.

My work covered both the brand and product experience. I custom-designed the logo, created a small brand/style guide, mapped user flows on whiteboards, and wireframed the web and app experience for both job seeker and employer paths. From there, I designed higher-fidelity screens that helped define profile setup, opportunity browsing, application flows, employer review tools, and communication touchpoints.

The project combined branding, marketplace UX, onboarding, profile design, and responsive interface design into one connected product experience.

Note: Designed while working for LookFar.

A travel discovery web app helping visitors find the South Walton beach that best matched their preferences.

Perfect Beach Finder was a web app created for Visit South Walton to help travelers navigate a collection of Gulf Coast beach communities and find the destination that best matched what they were looking for.

Users could select multiple amenities and preferences, then the interface would rank matching beach communities based on weighted values. The results visually emphasized stronger matches, including larger destination imagery for higher-ranking beaches, helping users compare options without reading through every location manually.

I worked with a small team on the interface and interaction design, including filter behavior, result weighting, visual hierarchy, and the back-and-forth refinement needed to make the matching experience feel clear and useful. The project combined travel UX, preference matching, destination discovery, and responsive web app design.

Note: Designed while working for Zehnder Communications.

A health-focused food ordering and pickup concept for prepared meals in workplaces, universities, and hospitals.

Fresh Meals was a product concept and investor-pitch design effort exploring how freshly prepared meals could be made easier to find, select, and pick up through a connected web/app experience.

The broader concept brought together prepared meal providers, vending or pickup systems, and customer-facing interfaces for people in places like universities, hospitals, and workplaces. Users could browse available meals, review nutritional information, filter by dietary needs, and find convenient pickup locations. The system also considered supporting vendor and commissary workflows behind the scenes.

My work focused on the consumer experience, interface direction, wireframes, prototype screens, and ecosystem diagrams that helped explain how the product could connect customers, meal providers, pickup locations, and supporting technology.

The project sat at the intersection of food access, health/wellness, vending technology, and digital product design.

Designed while working at LookFar.

A premium travel product concept exploring dark UI, destination imagery, recommendations, and itinerary planning.

Obsidian was a travel product concept created to explore how a booking and trip-planning experience could feel more immersive, editorial, and premium.

The concept focused on helping users discover hotels, restaurants, and things to do in a city, then build those choices into a more organized itinerary. Screens explored travel preferences, recommendation results, destination imagery, activity details, and trip-planning tools for individuals, couples, or groups.

My work focused on visual direction, interface design, sketching, and product flow exploration. The project was intentionally less constrained than a typical production booking flow, which made it a useful space to push mood, layout, imagery, and interaction ideas beyond standard travel interface patterns.