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INTRODUCTION / ABOUT FRAZ

Designing AI-native product systems that earn trust.

Fraz Khalid is a Staff / Principal Product Designer with more than 15 years of experience leading end-to-end design for enterprise compliance platforms, fintech products, AI-powered workflow systems, and operational B2B SaaS. His practice focuses on complex systems where expert users need clarity, confidence, and speed to make consequential decisions.

15+years leading product, UX, and design-system work
6enterprise products shaped as a founding designer
75+accessible components built into a design system
4agentic AI interaction patterns shipped

01 / Practice

From ambiguity to production-ready systems.

At Aristotle International, Fraz has spent seven years as the founding designer across a six-product enterprise platform used by political campaigns, PACs, and election administrators. He built the design practice, design system, and AI-native design culture from the ground up, while partnering closely with product, engineering, and domain experts.

A core part of his recent work is the Progressive Trust in AI framework: a production-shipped approach for how AI-powered products communicate confidence, surface insights, guide non-linear workflows, and help users understand when to trust, question, or act on system recommendations.

AI-native product judgment

Fraz designs AI-powered workflows that communicate confidence, reveal system reasoning, and support high-stakes decisions without overwhelming expert users.

Trust under complexity

His work centers on compliance, financial operations, permissions, auditability, and role-based interfaces where clarity directly affects user confidence.

Systems that scale

He builds design systems, tokenized component libraries, and governance practices that help product and engineering teams move with consistency.

02 / Experience

Selected career path.

2018 — Present

Lead Product Designer

Aristotle International

Founding designer across a six-product enterprise SaaS platform serving political campaigns, PACs, and election administrators. Built the design practice, design system, AI-native workflows, and research culture from zero.

2017 — 2018

Senior UX Designer

Principal Financial Group

Led the Zelle and wire transfer consumer experience for a major banking platform, translating financial-risk constraints into clearer, more trustworthy consumer flows.

2014 — 2017

Senior UX Designer

ConstellationCK

Delivered research, product strategy, interface design, design systems, and code-based prototypes across B2B and B2C engagements in finance, insurance, ticketing, and education.

2010 — 2014

Freelance Product Designer

Independent Contractor

Designed consumer and enterprise products across insurance, financial services, and B2B SaaS, often owning strategy, interaction design, and production-ready component systems as the sole designer.

03 / Capability Stack

Tools, methods, and product judgment.

AI-native design practiceAgentic workflow UXProgressive Trust in AIDesign systems architectureTokens StudioStorybookFigma variablesRBAC designCompliance dashboardsJTBD researchData visualizationWCAG 2.1 AA
Stanford AI and Generative AI Professional CertificateCertified UX Analyst — Human Factors InternationalCertified Usability Analyst — Human Factors InternationalMS Software Engineering, HCI Specialization