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Hunter Paramore

Product Designer · Design Systems · Designer-Developer

Product designer and designer-developer with 13 years of experience across mobile apps, design systems, branding, and complex web products. Co-founded and led design for Mutual, the #1 LDS dating app, as well as Ark, one of the top Christian dating apps in the App Store. Combines product strategy, research, polished interaction design, and production code to take products from concept through launch. Early AI adopter using AI across research, prototyping, implementation, testing, and handoff.

Experience

Paramore.Design

Founder · Product Designer & Developer

2025 – Present

  • Design and build custom AI-powered web and mobile tools for small businesses across field operations, intake, scheduling, reporting, client management, and payments. A typical tool replaces four to six SaaS subscriptions and ships in weeks.
  • The Tree Service: Built a field-operations tool used daily on iPads for safety checklists, pre-trip inspections, fuel and receipt capture, and fleet maintenance; retired four subscriptions.
  • Utah Valley Bride: Replaced a spreadsheet and manual email loop with a submissions and workflow portal spanning 138 vendor submissions; deployed August 2026.
  • GolfSheds: Lead fractional digital product management across an AI knowledge base, request system, handbook and checklist framework, department dashboards, and JobTread API integration.
  • Brand and identity: Delivered the Paramore Real Estate rebrand, signage, and two website rebuilds, plus the Sports Transport logo and brand package.

Mutual Dating

Co-Founder · Founding Designer · Director of UI/UX Design

2015 – 2026

  • Co-founded and designed the #1 LDS dating app in the world, responsible for 40,000+ marriages. Served as sole designer for ten years across product, research, brand, and design direction.
  • Built the Mutual Design System across three brands and six themes, with semantic tokens and live Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) contrast checks so engineers and AI agents could build accessible, on-brand UI from one source.
  • Redesigned onboarding from one long form into a stepped flow with an early exit, validated through in-person testing of two competing concepts. The result: 97% completed the full profile and about 80% completed verification after it was folded into onboarding.
  • Helped grow Mutual from a scrappy startup into a multi-million-dollar business, working part-time for five years before moving full-time in 2021. Shipped nearly every customer-facing and brand surface.

Ark Dating

Founding Designer · Director of UI/UX Design

2023 – 2026

  • Launched a second dating app by white-labeling Mutual; Ark is now one of the top 5 Christian dating apps in the App Store. Built and maintained dual design systems feeding parallel codebases, and owned research, brand, and product design end to end.

Nu Skin

Sr. UI/UX Designer

2019 – 2021

  • Designed and researched payment processing, discount-code, and analytics experiences for the web team, streamlining checkout and discount flows so customers could complete orders and receive earned offers.
  • Built Nu Skin's first Figma design system and led the design team's migration from Sketch. Partnered with engineering to form the first DevOps team and establish a shared system for designers and developers.

Stotion

Sr. UI/UX Designer

2014 – 2019

  • Shipped product work for dozens of clients at a UX-focused studio, including 3D roof-scanning drone tools, healthcare portals and dashboards, card decks, and event experiences.

Contract & Agency Experience

Angel Studios

Design Systems · Contract · 2025

Unified and standardized design systems and documentation into one consistent foundation across platforms.

Tech 9

Senior Product Designer · Agency

Led product design across agency clients, partnering with engineering from kickoff through launch and working directly with clients to shape their vision into cohesive products.

Selected Independent Products

Checkin

iOS · Android · Web

Social coordination app where friends signal availability through campfire check-ins. Owned concept, strategy, design, and development. Shipped on iOS and Android; shipped the web version in 2026 after porting it screen by screen from the Swift source.

Zelda: Breath of the Wild UI Kit

Figma Community · UI Kit

Created and published a reusable Figma UI kit inspired by the game’s interface system. Featured on the Figma Community homepage, the resource has reached 300k+ views and 17k+ downloads.

Paramore Platform

PWA · Supabase

Nine small apps on a shared sign-in, storage layer, and progressive web app shell, each live at its own paramore.design subdomain: Tain, Keeper, Flare, Magnet, Chores, Radio, Upkeep, Kill The Fish, and Bank. Also built SPNKr Server Manager, a self-hosted game-server dashboard controllable from Discord. Scaffolded, art-directed, built, and deployed every product solo.

Skills

Design
Figma (Expert) · Product & UX Strategy · UI & Interaction Design · Design Systems & Tokens · Prototyping · User Research & Usability Testing · Brand & Visual Identity · Rive · Illustrator · Photoshop · InDesign · After Effects
Engineering
Swift / SwiftUI · Kotlin / Jetpack Compose · React · Next.js · TypeScript · HTML / CSS · Tailwind · Astro · Progressive Web Apps · Unity · SpriteKit
Data, Infrastructure & AI
Supabase (Postgres, Auth, RLS) · Firebase & Cloud Functions · Vercel · Cloudflare · Stripe · Twilio · RevenueCat · CleverTap · Claude Code · Anthropic API · OpenAI API · Tool Use & Agents · MCP
Leadership & Practice
Workshop Facilitation · Cross-functional Leadership · Mentoring & Design Critique · Roadmapping & Prioritization · Stakeholder Communication

Education & Certificates

BFA in Graphic Design

BYU-Idaho

Product Psychology Masterclass

Growth.Design

Designing Experiences Your Users Will Love

Interaction Design Foundation · Certificate

Google Analytics Certification

Google

Recognition

  • Frequent guest lecturer at BYU and UVU; annual UVU capstone class mentor.

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