About | Greg Sargent

Designer, developer, educator.

I design and build digital products that are fast, accessible, and beautiful. Right now that means AI-native tools and design systems that scale.

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Where I've been

2022 – present
Associate Director, Design Systems
Spring Health
Head of Design Platform: design systems, accessibility, UX writing, and AI tooling. Founded Verdant UI and built the team of 12 behind it.
2016 – 2022
Product Experience Manager, Design Systems
Alkami Technology
Established Iris, the design system behind a white-label digital banking platform serving hundreds of financial institutions and 10M+ users.
2008 – present
R&D & independent projects
Independent
Self-directed work across AI, accessibility, and native engineering (Cambium, Savi, and Nauvoo Planner), plus client work for Chick-fil-A, PetSmart, and D Magazine.

12People on the team I built

10M+Banking platform users

HundredsFinancial institutions served

Trust first, then real ownership.

I hire for trust first: self-direction, comfort with ambiguity, and proof you are who you say you are. Clear that bar, and the job changes. You run your own function, and I stop reviewing the work behind you.

See how I lead

"The best design systems aren't built for designers. They're built for the product."

Greg SargentDirector of Design Systems, Spring Health

Trusted by teams who build

"Greg brought a level of rigor to our design system that we hadn't seen before."

Jamie HoltVP of Product, Alkami Technology

"Working with Greg felt like having a senior design lead and a senior engineer at the same time."

Priya NairEngineering Manager, Spring Health

"The accessibility program Greg built didn't just check a compliance box, it changed how our team thinks."

Marcus WebbDirector of Engineering, Atrium

Morning Watch

A short daily newscast that follows a set list of Latter-day Saint YouTube channels and reports what was said and who said it. Two AI voices I built read it, and every episode links the videos it came from.

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