Product design & AI engineering
I'm Stephen Bowman, a product designer and AI engineer near Chicago. My ten years of experience span marketing, sales and product design. I build software that helps people understand complicated information and get things done.
At IBM iX, I designed service, healthcare, and commerce workflows with client teams. At AstraZeneca, I wrote requirements, designed interfaces, and built AI prototypes. I like making a discussion concrete enough to build. What can someone do here? What happens next? Which decisions still need a person?
I also build software around my own interests. CFB Model Lab is where I investigate college football through data, Python models, and the interface. I work with coding agents, review their changes, and test the result. My accepted fixes to Hermes Agent and token-tracker show that work in the open.
Before product design, I worked in digital marketing at Grainger and sales at Yelp. I'm a Midwesterner and a new dad. Building with AI keeps me curious. So does figuring out fatherhood.
The work behind the words. Open a project to see the decisions, the original artifacts, and my contribution.
At United, I interviewed and observed customer care representatives in Chicago and Houston. That research helped shape a dashboard around the complaint they needed to resolve across thirteen systems.
Across four DHCS workstreams, I rebuilt Bootstrap patterns in Figma and documented the service rules behind them, so teams could review a shared pattern in the context of each workflow.
For Janssen, I worked within a shared Figma system across eighteen brands. Enrollment steps and exception states made the interaction details available for review alongside the visual design.
In CFB Model Lab, I design the research flow and help build the software behind it with coding agents. Python prepares the data for a Next.js interface. Dated JSON snapshots, the files passed between them, keep the source context available for review.
At AstraZeneca, I used a source-review prototype to onboard designers and worked with product partners to resolve differences between versions. The handoff distinguished working interactions, simulated inputs, and services still to connect.
I build and debug software with coding agents. Here are two contributions accepted by the projects I work with.
Hermes Agent Accepted commit · 4d47891
Dashboard actions in Hermes Agent could inherit another profile’s credentials and settings. I contributed a Python fix that gives named profiles their own environment, with regression coverage.
Read the Hermes fixtoken-tracker Merged pull request · #18
GPT-4o could inherit GPT-4o-mini’s price in token-tracker. My merged fix matches the exact model ID, with regression tests for either order of the returned models.
Inspect the pricing fix