Matt Quinn
Design Engineer
currently @ RBC — Toronto / Waterloo Region
Journal
A diary of the shifts that AI is taking design and engineering through.
Work
8 years at RBC building systems for enterprise design teams.
01 / 03
2018 — 2020
Lead Product Designer
02 / 03
2021 — 2025
Director, RBC Design System
03 / 03
2026 — now
Principal Design Engineer
01 / 03
2018 — 2020
Lead Product Designer
02 / 03
2021 — 2025
Director, RBC Design System
03 / 03
2026 — now
Principal Design Engineer
Current Projects
Where I'm spending my exploratory cycles right now. The through-line is treating AI as a creative collaborator — for design tooling, dev workflows, and the way I think.
Interactive Design System
A color & token playground combining ok-themes, typster, and cardopia. Designed to draft, generate, and inspect a full design system end-to-end.
exploreAI Dev Harness
A Claude Code plugin that turns repeated coding workflows into reusable intents — plan, implement, review — so AI-assisted development feels deliberate.
exploreBoard of Directors
A panel of AI personas built from the people, mentors, and frameworks I keep in my Obsidian knowledge base — distinct voices to pressure-test ideas against.
coming soonPhotography
Where I go when I'm off the screen.