Portfolio / New York / Est. 1998

Alexander

BARKIN

Director of UXProduct Design LeaderDesign Systems ArchitectInventorBuilder

Most of what I design, you never notice — the tokens, the components, the quiet rules that let a hundred people build as one. The rest, you use every day. For twenty-five years I've worked both sides of that line, from Yahoo and Verizon to VideoShops, and today I build the whole of it at Legion Leo — LDS, Chamber, ClipScout, and Allodia.

25+
Years of craft
900M
Users reached
$25M
Built at VideoShops
95%
Design-system adoption

Selected work

Public · The crown jewels
01 · Design System

Legion Design System

A design system with a memory.

Most systems are just parts. LDS remembers how it decided — every atom carries its ruling: where it came from, why it was accepted, and what it refuses to do. A ratified type and color foundation, source-faithful atoms, and the Living Glass material that gives the whole surface a pulse.

PublicFounderSystems ArchitectDesign Engineering
Enter LDS
Design SystemLegion Leo LLC
Global Experience Language
LDS · Living intelligence
02 · Product

ClipScout.io

A Spotify for video — from every corner of the multiverse.

Discover movies, viral shorts, podcasts, and music across YouTube, Vimeo, TikTok, Odysee and more — searched all at once, beautifully organized, and completely uninterrupted. Born as an antidote to algorithms that push sponsored content, it puts what you actually want to watch first.

PublicFounderProduct DesignAI Discovery
Visit ClipScout.io
ClipScout
YouTubeVimeoTikTokOdysee
Discovery without interruption
03 · Multi-agent AI

Chamber

An operating surface for structured deliberation.

The Legion Council Chamber — a multi-agent AI orchestration platform for configurable councils of cloud and local models, structured deliberation, persistent memory, document reuse, and exportable decision products across business, legal, research, and product workflows. Governance made legible; the system never drifts in silence. Built on LDS.

PublicFounderAI/ML UX0→1
Explore Chamber
ChamberLegion CouncilCloud + local
Structured deliberation
04 · Commerce Platform

Allodia

Stop renting. Own the whole thing.

Commerce software for established sellers leaving marketplaces. Allodia turns a rented shop into an owned storefront: the seller's domain, catalog, customers, checkout, and Stripe account. A flat monthly fee, open export, and an architecture that can never take a percentage of a sale.

PublicFounderCommerce UXPlatform Architecture
Visit Allodia
Allodia
Your customer$Your Stripe
0% Allodia stays outside the payment path
Own your store · Own your customers
Protected work · Password required

The Vault

Enterprise and client work under NDA. Case studies for the platforms and design systems below open with an access code — request one and I'll unlock the door.

Verizon · Monarch AI
Conversational Design System
Yahoo Finance
Curated Watchlists · Data UX
Yahoo Weather
Apple Design Award · Mobile
Yahoo Design System
Atomic · 95% adoption
DSP & SSP Platforms
AdTech · Complex UI
VideoShops
Commerce · $0→$25M

The résumé, designed

1998 → Present
Sep 2024 — Present

Founder, CBO & Head of Product · Legion Leo

Dual-lead of business strategy and product design — architecting commercial viability and user-centric innovation from inception, across technology, finance, e-commerce, and medical.

  • Leading Chamber, a multi-agent AI orchestration platform for structured deliberation, persistent memory, and exportable decision products.
  • Built ClipScout.io, an AI-powered multi-source video discovery platform — "a Spotify for video."
  • Invented Crystal Hammer (CH-LL-MID25), a US patent-pending medical inhalation device.
  • Crafting a comprehensive atomic design system — tokens, components, patterns — via agentic engineering.
Oct 2025 — Dec 2025

Team Lead, Conversational Expansion Pack · Verizon — Monarch

Director-level scope. Led UX strategy and end-to-end design for Verizon's AI Conversational Expansion Pack within the Monarch Design System.

  • Designed 15+ scalable conversational components with code-ready specs, tokens, and accessibility built in.
  • Directed collaboration across 5 design + engineering pods; established review, documentation, and Figma workflows.
Feb 2023 — Aug 2024

Head of Design & Product · VideoShops

Led design and product strategy for an affiliate-commerce platform, scaling from inception to $25M annual revenue.

  • Built and mentored a high-performing UX, product, and research team.
  • Created a React component library; drove marketplace UX, personalization, and creator/brand commerce.
Dec 2012 — Feb 2023

Product Design Team Lead · Yahoo → Verizon

Led 7 UX teams across AdTech (DSP/SSP), Finance, News, Search, Weather, and Analytics — impacting 900M+ users.

  • Built Yahoo's atomic design system and scaled it to 95% adoption, lifting efficiency 35%.
  • Designed the original Yahoo Finance Curated Watchlists monetization concept.
  • Led and mentored 40+ designers; won CES and Apple awards.
Mar 2010 — Sep 2012

Lead Interaction Designer & Applications Developer · FocusVision

Designed and built enterprise research software, video & analytics platforms, and the company's first reusable design system.

Jul 1998 — Mar 2010

Founder & Partner · Limit8 Design

Full-cycle UX, UI, and branding for 150+ clients including Procter & Gamble and Cushman & Wakefield.

Honors
CES — Best Data Visualization
Yahoo Flurry · 2018
Apple — Best Design Award
Yahoo Weather, Mobile · 2016
Imation — Best Computer Graphics
National Award · 2000
Education
B.A. — Computer Science & Psychology
Hunter College, City University of New York
A.A.S. — Computer Science & Graphic Design
Kingsborough College · Honors
Toolkit
FigmaDesign TokensComponent ArchitectureFramerPrototypingConversational UIAI/ML UXD3.jsHTML/CSS/JSReact collabAccessibilityDesign Ops