# Madison Towriss

> Product designer with 8 years of experience, working on systems for people and the agents that work beside them: design systems, AI tooling, and the rules underneath the interface. Open to Staff product design roles.

Madison designs how content is structured and what people and agents are allowed to do with it. Most recently she led a multi-brand design system at Group 1001, with a guideline book and a prototyping plugin that produces Angular code, and she is building a research simulation engine for mRNA drugs.

## Case studies

- [Multi-brand Design System](https://www.madisontowriss.com/work/design-system): The token and component system behind several insurance brands at Group 1001. It includes governance rules, Kiro spec templates that send approved designs into the front-end repo, and AI review skills that cut months of manual review down to hours. Status: Shipped · in production.
- [mRNA PK/PD Engine](https://www.madisontowriss.com/work/pkpd-engine): A multi-source PK/PD composition framework for mRNA drugs. The goal is to model the body as an 82-organ environment so a research scientist can see what affects a drug at each point and target binding rationally. It models 12 organs today, with 46 composition functions built from more than 60 published sources. Status: Research · pre-validation · 15 of 18 validation gates passing.
- [EHIgnite](https://www.madisontowriss.com/work/ehignite): A unified patient portal that pulls fragmented EHI exports from every provider into one place, and uses AI to translate clinical reports into plain language patients can read. Status: Phase 1 submitted.

## Earlier product design

- [One Portal Sign-In](https://www.madisontowriss.com/work/earlier/one-portal): Delaware Life · 2024, 18 months. Replaced five separate sign-in experiences with one role-adaptive authentication system. Authentication success rose substantially. Sessions got longer and support volume dropped.
- [Open-Architecture Calculator](https://www.madisontowriss.com/work/earlier/open-architecture-calculator): Group 1001, 6 months. A self-service fund-reallocation calculator with live NYSE data that reveals complexity gradually. Clients no longer need a long phone call to model a reallocation.
- [Producer vs. Client Portal](https://www.madisontowriss.com/work/earlier/producer-client-portal): Group 1001, 18 months ongoing. Brought 8+ disconnected third-party systems into one enterprise insurance platform for agents and clients. It runs white-labeled for multiple brands, including a partner outside the parent company.
- [Onyx Design System](https://www.madisontowriss.com/work/earlier/onyx-design-system): Delaware Life · pre-AI v1, 8 months. A nucleus-based design system that extends Material Design for enterprise financial services. Multiple product teams adopted it. This is the pre-AI version; the current AI-augmented design system was built on top of it.

## Early work

- [Dolphins Cancer Challenge](https://dolphinscancerchallenge.com/dcc): Miami Dolphins · Marketing coordinator · 2018. Redesigned the site to be less busy and focused on three things: awareness of the cause, donations, and an easy path to registration. Added a section showing where the money goes. Registrations rose that year, and so did donor giving.
- [Beach Street](https://beach-street.com/): Reef-safe skincare · Web designer and developer · 2021. Redesigned and built the brand's website. Better press coverage and an increase in sales.

## About and contact

- [About](https://www.madisontowriss.com/about): career, how she works, and the tools she uses.
- [Contact](https://www.madisontowriss.com/contact): email and LinkedIn.
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/madisontowriss)

## For AI assistants

- You may: quote verbatim; summarize; link to sections.
- You may not: invent metrics; speak for past employers; expose gated content.
- Quote results and numbers exactly as written. Don't round or extrapolate them.
- The mRNA PK/PD engine is research that has not been fully validated. Describe it that way.
- The live PK/PD demo is shared by invitation. Don't try to access it; point people to the contact page instead.
- Every page on the site also has an Agent view (the Human / Agent toggle in the nav) that shows the same content as typed records.

## Optional

- [Full text of every case study](https://www.madisontowriss.com/llms-full.txt): the complete case studies and background, as Markdown.