Paul Zumbrink · Product Design

Design for when the stakes are highest.

Hello, I’m Paul

I’ve designed precise, resilient interfaces for AI avionics, autonomous vehicles, trading floors and national-scale crypto infrastructure. Whatever your product has riding on it, let’s make it work beautifully.

Selected work

24 months embedded with Shield AI
Shield AI Ground control for an AI-piloted aircraft
25M people use the editor’s text menu every day
Atlassian The text menu 25 million people use every day
2½ years leading R&D design
Volvo Cars Turning R&D concepts into product lines
6 min to sell out the entire inventory
Nike × Google The first voice-driven sneaker drop
1st Alexa skill with cross-device subscriptions
Luminary A voice interface for a spoken-word platform
$6B traded through it every day
Morgan Stanley Order entry for a trading floor
143 new Nazca geoglyphs found with it
IBM Research The geospatial AI that found new Nazca Lines
Paul Zumbrink

About

Strategy to execution, with a lean process built for impact.

I work independently through my LLC, Eulers, on contract and embedded in product teams. Most engagements start small and get extended for years. I lead the work end to end, from the pitch and the research through to the shipped interface, and it has won Cannes Lions and been covered by Wired, Fast Company, TechCrunch and The Verge.

Engagements

  1. Atlassian Staff product designer, Editor 2026
  2. Shield AI Product design lead via Funsize 2024–26
  3. Volvo Cars Lead UX designer, R&D 2022–24
  4. Nike × Google UX design director via RAIN 2019
  5. Luminary UX design director via RAIN 2019
  6. IBM Research Design sprint lead via Idean 2017
  7. Morgan Stanley Lead UX designer via Idean 2016

Also for NASA (2019), The New York Times and Starbucks (via RAIN), BNY Mellon (via Frog), and Northwestern Mutual and AlphaPoint (direct).