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  • Applied AI
  • Design engineering
  • Real-time graphics
  • Product UX
  • Motion
  • Hospitality creative

Devon Archer

Design Engineer + Creative Technologist

Devon Archer

Hiring a creative technologist?
Start with what I've shipped.

Live products, real-time builds, and campaign work, all linked below.

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I'm Devon Archer, a design engineer and creative technologist in Lehi, Utah, part of the Salt Lake City metro. I design AI products people can trust, build real-time interactive work, and run a hospitality creative studio that ships every week. Concept to deployed code, one loop.

Clients & collaborations

Teams I've created for.

Selected client work, hospitality property brands, and founder work.

  • Hampton by Hilton

    Greensburg & Johnstown creative

  • IHG Hotels & Resorts

    Hotel Indigo property creative

  • Hotel Indigo Pittsburgh

    University–Oakland campaigns

  • Eliza Hot Metal Bistro

    Menus, events & campaigns

  • Elements Salon & Wellness

    Wellness & event creative

  • Revest Properties

    Hospitality portfolio creative

  • Vigilant

    Video & creative support

  • GutID

    Creative production

  • RCC Hospitality Consulting

    Website design · in progress

  • JobGhost

    Co-founder · product & growth

Additional work: CR-91 Park Plaza · website & investor materialsMagic Housekeeping · website design

Selected work

Built, shipped and still running.

The portfolio is organized around working systems, not categories of deliverables. Labels distinguish live products, client work, and independent concepts.

Living Lobby forming the HALCYON wordmark from particles at golden hour
In development · Part 1 built

Living Lobby

Real-time graphics, GPU simulation, live data, installation

A generative brand installation for hotel lobbies. Particles move through a world shaped by live time and weather, gather into a wordmark, and respond to people in front of the screen. The system is designed to run unattended like an installation rather than behave like another portfolio demo.

  • 26K–124K GPU particles
  • Live sun + weather inputs
  • Director mode + kiosk hardening
View project
Live product

VibeCode+

AI developer tooling, Product UX, Next.js, GitHub

Inspectable AI code repair. Deterministic health checks, bounded AI fixes, GitHub verification, and human review let a developer see what the system did before accepting a change. Successful repairs land as draft pull requests instead of silent production changes.

  • 216/216 automated tests in latest audit
  • Draft PRs, never silent changes
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Live product

CheckRay

Trust UX, Applied AI, Evaluation, Supabase

Scam risk analysis for suspicious texts, links, job offers, bills, and emails. Evidence is separated from interpretation, uncertainty stays visible, and newly collected scam intelligence is reviewed before the product treats it as trusted context.

  • Evidence first, then a risk state
  • Human review + regression workflows
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Independent concept

Baseten Inference Lab

Design engineering, AI infrastructure, Motion, Vercel

A model request made visible as five steps: request, prepare, route, compute, respond. Live inference, responsive layout, and motion turn invisible infrastructure into something a person evaluating the platform can actually understand.

  • Live model calls
  • Independent concept, not affiliated with Baseten
View project
Client work

Investor Deal Rooms

Investor storytelling, Dashboards, Decks, Web

Pitch decks, private investor rooms, and project dashboards for hospitality and real-estate raises. The job is to turn a complicated deal into a story investors can follow, interrogate, and act on.

  • Deck, data room, and site as one system
  • Built for active raises
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Studio practice

Archer Design

My studio for hotels, restaurants, spas, startups, and investor projects. Campaign systems, social creative, motion, web experiences, and visual storytelling delivered for real teams with real deadlines.

CampaignsMotionHospitalityProductInvestor StorytellingAI Creative

18.6M+impressions
4.9M+reach
612K+engagements
2.7K+creative pieces

Aggregate tracked campaign results through October 2026. Creative performance only; no booking attribution implied.

View studio work
Hotel motion · AI-assisted
Hotel Indigo Pittsburgh 'Comfy Yet?' room campaign graphic
Hotel campaign · Hotel Indigo Pittsburgh
Eliza Hot Metal Bistro holiday billboard
Out-of-home · Eliza Hot Metal Bistro
CR-91 Park Plaza project website shown on a desktop monitor
Web experience · CR-91 Park Plaza
F&B motion
CR-91 Park Plaza investor pitch deck pages and laptop
Investor deck · CR-91 Park Plaza

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Devon AI is grounded in the professional work on this portfolio. Ask about role fit, technical depth, projects, process, or what I would own on a team.

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Skills

What I bring to a team.

Product thinking, visual craft, creative direction, and enough engineering to ship the idea.

Applied AI product design+

AI features people can trust. I design what the model may do, what it shows as evidence, where uncertainty appears, and where a person stays in control. Then I build it.

Design engineering+

Design and code as one feedback loop. I take an idea from interaction model to deployed React and Next.js software with real states, data, auth, APIs, QA, and iteration.

Real-time + interactive+

Experiences that respond to people and the world around them: particle systems, shaders, live data, installation behavior, computer vision, and multi-device interaction.

Rapid prototyping+

Working prototypes that test the risky part first. I would rather expose an assumption with a real interaction than polish a fake certainty.

Motion + campaign systems+

Motion, social systems, short-form video, brand assets, and AI-assisted production designed to hold together across large volumes of real client work.

Creative direction+

Hospitality, F&B, events, investor storytelling, and visual systems, with enough production and technical depth to keep the idea connected to what ships.

Devon Archer

About

Devon Archer

  • 2021 to now
    Founder, Archer DesignHospitality creative, motion, web, investor materials, and creative technology.
  • 2025 to 2026
    Co-founder, JobGhostProduct positioning, growth systems, and recruiting SaaS.
  • 2021 to 2025
    Graphic Designer, SHAIPEMulti-account digital design and client delivery.

M.S. UX Design, Full Sail University
B.S. UX/UI Design, Full Sail University
Graphic Design Certificate, CalArts

Questions recruiters ask

Can you actually code, or do you only prototype?

I build and ship working software. My strongest ground is the line between design and frontend: React, Next.js, TypeScript, APIs, auth, Supabase, GitHub, and Vercel. I use AI-assisted development heavily and stay responsible for behavior, testing, and what goes live. I am not presenting myself as a senior infrastructure engineer, and I know when a problem needs one.

How do you use AI in your work?

Use AI for ambiguity. Use deterministic systems for guarantees. Keep a human where judgment matters. The interface should make evidence, uncertainty, state, and control understandable instead of treating the model like an oracle.

Where does hospitality fit into a Creative Technologist role?

Hotels and restaurants taught me to ship for real audiences on real deadlines. That domain experience now feeds projects like Living Lobby, where creative direction, real-time engineering, and physical guest experience meet.

What kind of role fits best?

Creative Technologist, Design Technologist, Design Engineer, AI Product Designer, Creative Developer, or prototyping roles where visual craft, product behavior, and working software overlap.

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