Kevin Arthur · Design Engineer & Product Designer · Vancouver, Canada
I design product interfaces and ship them in code.
I founded Varve, a free, local-first design suite, and built its React/TypeScript editor — now in public beta (v0.5.0, Oct 2026). Before that I owned product design for clinical-AI tools at minoHealth AI Labs.
Open to remote roles.
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Varve v0.5.0: Designing a Local-First Suite and Shipping the Editor in Code
I designed and engineered Varve, a free local-first design suite now in public beta (v0.5.0). React/TypeScript editor on a Rust/WASM engine. Six workspaces, no account.
Proof: DTCG tokens become CSS and React — the inspector and the canvas share one source of truth.
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Clinical-AI product design at minoHealth, then a VS Code client where stale UI is a product failure.
Product Design for Clinical-AI Tools at minoHealth
I owned product design for Moremi AI: clinical workflows, explicit uncertainty states, and a system clinicians could use on phones and desktops.
Proof: Clinical IA around patients → diagnose → review → report, with uncertainty as a first-class UI state.
OpenCode Harness: Engineering a Deterministic AI Development Interface
A VS Code client I built for the opencode agent. Silent Staleness meant the UI trusted cached values; I rebuilt it so the interface re-derives from live state on every change.
Proof: Active re-derivation plus a test wall — stale UI fails the build.
About
Design engineer and product designer
Kevin Arthur is a design engineer and product designer. He founded Varve, a free, local-first design suite (public beta v0.5.0, October 2026), and designed and built its React and TypeScript editor. From 2023 to 2025 he was a product designer for clinical-AI tools at minoHealth AI Labs.
More about meOpen to design engineer and frontend roles
If you're hiring a designer who ships in React and TypeScript, get in touch.