--- title: "Kevin Canlas — Product Designer & Design Engineer" canonical: "https://www.kevincanlas.com/" --- # Kevin Canlas — Product Designer & Design Engineer Canonical: [https://www.kevincanlas.com/](https://www.kevincanlas.com/) ## Speed is cheap. Function is expected. Craft is *rare.* I’m a lead product designer and design engineer. Currently leading UI/UX at Monad Foundation, previously at Cyfrin and Molekule. I work across product, brand, motion, and frontend—turning ambiguous goals into coherent, shipped experiences. Comfy in canvas and code. ## Writings [All writings](https://www.kevincanlas.com/writings) ### [The Feature Works. The Product Doesn't.](https://www.kevincanlas.com/writings/the-feature-works-the-product-doesnt) When AI makes the answer to “can we build it?” almost always yes, product judgment becomes the work that protects coherence. 7 min ### [Taste in the Age of AI](https://www.kevincanlas.com/writings/taste-in-the-age-of-ai) AI can generate polished work faster than ever. Taste is still the judgment that decides what lands. 6 min ### [A Developer's Guide to Product Design](https://www.kevincanlas.com/writings/a-developers-guide-to-product-design) A practical process for developers to protect product coherence as features accumulate: define the problem, explore alternatives, map the journey, test risk, and spend craft deliberately. 8 min ## Skills [Explore skills](https://www.kevincanlas.com/skills) ### Product Judgement 4 Skills Focal, Compass, Flywheel, and Soul—four Markdown Skills for making coherent product-design decisions with AI. ## Recent roles Current & previous ### [Monad Foundation](https://www.monad.xyz/) **UI/UX Lead · Design Engineer** · May 2024–Present Leading design and development across Monad’s websites, products, ecosystem programs, and internal initiatives, while providing design support to ecosystem startups. ### [Cyfrin](https://www.cyfrin.io/) **Lead Designer** · Mar 2023–May 2024 Led design across Cyfrin, CodeHawks, Solodit, and Updraft for smart-contract security and education. ### [Molekule](https://molekule.com/) **Lead Designer** · Jul 2022–Feb 2023 Led product and interface design across commerce, web, mobile, and enterprise products. ## Recent work Current work for the Monad ecosystem. ### Monad.xyz Monad Foundation · Product, brand & frontend The main Monad Foundation website at monad.xyz, where I help shape the product, brand, motion, and frontend experience across the ecosystem. ### BuildAnything Monad learning platform · Product, UI/UX & design engineering BuildAnything helps developers move from vibe-coded prototypes to production-ready apps through guided learning tracks covering security, authentication, payments, and other production fundamentals. I worked across product, UI/UX design, and design engineering, and built the majority of the frontend. ### evm/accathon Monad hackathon · UI/UX, branding, motion & development For Monad’s evm/accathon at hackathon.monad.xyz, I executed the entire project end to end—from design and branding through motion and development. ## Earlier work (before AI) A few of my favourite interactive projects, preserved as working snapshots. ### Prolific Digital Agency work · UI design & frontend development At Prolific Digital, a full-service web and brand design agency, I worked as a UI designer and frontend developer across dozens of client projects. I designed and prototyped websites in Figma, then built them from scratch with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, Next.js, PHP, Laravel/Blade, and WordPress. ### Isekai Meta Ethereum NFT · UI/UX & creative frontend I joined Isekai Meta as its 13th team member and was responsible for UI/UX and creative frontend development across the website and minting experience. The community- and story-driven, hand-drawn Ethereum NFT collection was influenced by pop culture, lo-fi aesthetics, Japanese anime and manga—especially Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki—and sold out for roughly $2.7 million in ETH in July 2022. Tools and stack: Figma, React, Next.js, SCSS, GSAP, and Framer Motion. ### Solarians Solana NFT · UI design & frontend development As Solarians’ UI designer and frontend developer, I revamped the entire website and designed and built new product features. The NFT project lives in the Solana ecosystem. Tools and stack: Figma, SvelteKit, Tailwind, SCSS, GSAP, and Three.js. ### Franky’s Dinner NFT project · Design & frontend development Franky’s Dinner was a small NFT project built by a four-person team and inspired by 1920s rubber-hose animation. I designed and developed its landing page and minting experience. The collection sold out for roughly $600,000. ## Connect I’m not taking on freelance projects right now, but I’m always happy to meet thoughtful designers and developers. - [X / Twitter](https://x.com/kvncnls) — @kvncnls - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevincanlas) — Kevin Canlas - [GitHub](https://github.com/kvncnls) — @kvncnls - [Email](mailto:kvncnlsdsgns@gmail.com) — Say hello