Jordan Oakes / AI Product Designer

I design AI-native products that keep people in control.

Co-founder and Product Designer of SermonAI— a production AI SaaS. I come from frontend / UX craft and Cognitive Science (AI & HCI, UC Santa Cruz). That means starting from how people think — then building intuitive products that stay tools, not black boxes.

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How I Work

Start from how people think

Cognitive Science and HCI first — model what users need to understand and control before choosing a model, stack, or interface pattern.

Frontend craft as product leverage

Clear IA, interaction design, and polished UI are how MVPs earn trust. Years of freelance UX and frontend work are the foundation under the AI product work.

Ship with AI tools — own the judgment

I use Cursor and other AI tools to move faster. Architecture, review, and product decisions stay human. The goal is better shipping speed without handing the product over to the model.

Selected Work

SermonAI

AI Product Designer & CTO

Pastors produce one sermon weekly but manage five downstream formats by hand. Separated transcription from generation into visible pipeline stages, and made human review a mandatory step — so AI stays a tool teams can trust.

AI product design · Production SaaS

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Kosei Performance Partners

From zero brand to a CMS-driven talent platform — naming, identity, IA, and a self-serve athlete roster a non-technical founder still runs himself.

Brand · Product design · CMS

Happy Bundles

Designed for families in medical crisis — where reducing friction and cognitive load isn't a nice-to-have, it's the whole brief.

Accessibility · HCI-informed UX

Foundations

Swyvvl Real Estate Platform

Three incompatible user types — buyers, agents, admins — sharing one product with live MLS data, a bidding system, and gated membership. Designed the IA, onboarding flows, and navigation hierarchies before any code was written.

UX research · Multi-role product design

Off The Leash Lifestyle

Niche community with hybrid membership and e-commerce needs: merchandise, coaching, and training under one roof for a non-technical audience. Owned its evolution for years — from storefront to gated membership platform.

Membership UX · E-commerce

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Aletheia Digital Media

In-house digital work across brands and campaigns — the employment chapter that sharpened delivery under real client constraints before independent product work.

Digital design · Agency delivery

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About

I design AI-native products that keep people in control — starting from how people think, then building interfaces that treat AI as a tool.

Cognitive Science (AI & HCI, UC Santa Cruz) plus years of freelance frontend and UX work are the craft under that identity. SermonAI is where those threads meet as a live AI SaaS I own end to end.

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Let's Work Together

Building an AI-native product — or hiring for the craft behind one?

I'm open to full-time AI Product Designer roles and selective consulting. Looking for someone with deep frontend / UX craft who can design and ship an MVP — including with AI tools in the loop? Let's talk.

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