Daniel Riley · Product design leader who still builds

I design and build AI interfaces for complex enterprise data products.

Most recently at IBM, defining how enterprise AI behaves when it is uncertain or wrong. Before that, converging five analytics products into one platform at NielsenIQ, and designing the guided workflow at the core of Nielsen’s acquisition of Precima.

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Design leadership at
  • IBM
  • NielsenIQ
  • LoyaltyOne / Precima
Webby Awards HonoreeCanadian New Media Awards · Designer of the YearInteractive Media Awards · Best in ClassFWA Site of the DayPROFIT Hot 50

Selected work

Two working AI prototypes I built in October 2026, three enterprise cases with the problem, my decisions and the work that shipped, and a venture I co-founded, including what went wrong. Filter by the kind of problem you are hiring for.

Pricing assistant prototype with a low-confidence row and options to refresh, exclude or keep it with a note
New Concept build · October 2026 · Live prototype · Open source

An AI assistant that admits what it doesn’t know

A working prototype of every state an AI feature needs inside an analytics product: ready, working, result, low confidence, error and corrected. Retail pricing, invented data. Click through it.

AI interfacesData products
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AI search agent returning an editable table of contracts with automatic renewal terms
IBM · Senior Design Manager · Enterprise AI workflows

Designing AI people can verify

Teams had an AI mandate but no shared way to make agent output trustworthy. I led the patterns for where agents enter the work, how people check sources, and how answers become work they can edit.

AI interfacesDesign systems
14-person org6–8 products2024–2025
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NielsenIQ share-of-wallet comparison dashboard
NielsenIQ · Director of UX · Retail and CPG analytics

Five analytics products, one platform

After an acquisition and rebrand, products had grown apart while teams kept shipping. I treated navigation and the object model as shared infrastructure, and gave dense analysis one path: orient, compare, explain.

Data productsDesign systems
5 platformsTeam of 62020–2024
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Precima performance monitoring dashboard
LoyaltyOne / Precima · Director of User Experience · Retail analytics SaaS

From analyst reports to self-serve SaaS

Value depended on experts and custom reports. I built the UX practice from zero and designed the guided workflow that let non-specialists run enterprise-scale analytics. It became core to what Nielsen acquired in 2020.

Data productsDesign systems
Practice built from zeroMVP in ~9 months2017–2020
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Rendering of The Aristocrat, an eight-residence luxury building in Old Oakville, at dusk
New Urbo Group · Co-founder · Brand, launch and AI concept · Open source

Selling buildings before they exist

The launch campaign I designed for a luxury preconstruction building, the platform bet we didn’t build, an honest post-mortem, and a working AI concierge that answers buyers only from approved documents.

AI interfacesBrand and launch
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ZOS: Last Tango in Jadac, a Webby Awards Official Honoree
Lab · Origins · Games, VFX, interactive campaigns

Before product leadership: interactive worlds, broadcast VFX and a Webby-honored campaign

Game design, VFX supervision, film marketing, and a studio co-founded and sold. The maker’s fluency behind the systems work.

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How I create leverage in complex products

My work is strongest where user experience, business logic, technical constraints and organizational process overlap. I clarify the work, turn repeated decisions into systems, and help teams scale quality beyond one-off screens.

01

Clarify

Frame the product problem, user workflow, business context and decision points before teams over-invest in execution.

02

Systemize

Turn repeated patterns into reusable structures: navigation models, information architecture, components, data-visualization rules, AI interaction principles and governance.

03

Scale

Build the operating model around the work so teams apply standards consistently across products, squads and release cycles.

What I’m hired to do

High-complexity product environments: enterprise software, analytics platforms, AI-enabled workflows, design systems, and the operating models that make design scale.

AI interfaces

AI people can trust and correct

Transparency, human control, confidence, failure states and reviewability, designed into the workflow rather than added on.

Data products

Dense analytics that read clearly

Workflow definition, information architecture, navigation, decision paths, dashboard logic and task models for complex B2B products.

Design systems

Systems teams actually use

Reusable standards, component thinking, contribution and review models, and practical alignment between design and engineering.

Leadership

Clear calls for leaders and teams

What problem matters, why it matters, which trade-offs are real, and how the work should move forward.

Recognition

Earlier digital and interactive work was recognized across design, interactive media and growth-stage business programs.

Open to full-time and contract work.

Principal and leadership roles in AI interfaces, data products and design systems. Remote, Eastern Time. English and conversational French.