Give me the mess.
Every project starts as a pile. The first move is not design, it is sweeping it into something I can read.
About
Stephanie Gysler
Independent AI Product Builder & Strategist
I design enterprise tools, AI-assisted workflows, and decision-support systems. Complex tasks, workflows, and data visualization for agentic systems are where I work best. I take messy, ambiguous workflow problems and shape them from big-picture vision to the design systems that touch the human, business, and technical points.
How I work
My strength
Show me the mess, I find the system.
I take a pile of data, notes and artefacts and find what points to the thing worth building. Give me the mess, or the status quo, and I will find the system, and build it for human engagement.
Drag the studio, and step through the process below.
Background
Before product design I studied architecture, a discipline that taught me to think about how people move through and understand complex environments. That spatial, systems-level thinking helps me translate and build down to the technical level.
I'm business proficient in German, fluent in English.
Architecture to product design
2014 – 2021
Architecture & spatial design
Trained in architecture and landscape architecture, then practised as an architect, regulated, data-dense environments where clarity, trust and long-term consistency are non-negotiable.
2022 – 2025
Scandit: enterprise computer vision & AR
Product Designer across ShelfView, PPLE and Scandit Express: shelf intelligence, AR price execution and activation for Fortune 500 retail clients.
2025 – now
Gysler Designs: independent
Product Designer & Builder. AI-native interaction patterns for enterprise workflows: agentic task flows, LLM output structuring, and human-in-the-loop validation.
Credentials
MSc Architecture
University of Liechtenstein
Vaduz, Liechtenstein
BA Landscape Architecture
University of Georgia
Athens, GA, USA
AI Product Design
UX Certification
Nielsen Norman Group · 2026
Architecture License
LEED Certified · 2014
Languages
English: Fluent
German: Business (B1–B2)
French: Conversational
Work that does not fit in four case studies
Side projects and explorations live on the Shipped page. They include Plinthly, a mortgage-readiness tool, and earlier concept work across fintech and design tooling.
ShippedHow I work with AI
I build systems that adapt to human interaction.
01
Relationships before screens.
At any scale, enterprise or a single project, I work from principles down to objects, states and edge cases. The relationships between them exist before a single screen does, so the product holds under pressure instead of just in a demo.
02
I prototype fast, then fine-tune.
Creativity and analytical rigor work together in my hands. I build working interactions quickly to test whether an idea holds, then bring the craft into Figma to refine what survived.
03
I diagnose the gap before the design.
Where uncertainty lives, I look for the space between a business opportunity and a real human problem. Empathy and strategy together decide which gap is worth closing, and how.
04
Humans at the center of the automation.
AI automation only earns its place when people stay inside it. I build empathy, feedback loops and new patterns into the system, so the human is not a fallback but the reason it exists.