David Skelton
Creative Director, Designer & AI Builder
I'm David, a designer in Columbus, Ohio. Creative direction, brand and design systems since 2008. AI in the workflow since 2021, where it belongs: production that used to take days now takes hours, and a review gate decides what ships.
I own creative end to end, from brand and design systems through the production workflows that ship them, and I write the front end myself. My proof isn't a slide deck. It's a working agentic OS that runs my studio and blocks any claim it can't trace to a source. Everything on this site, including the OS that wrote half the run logs, is working proof.
- nowWeb Content Marketing Manager, Huntington National Bank
creative direction on the AI product team - studioSkelton Media, founder since 2008
- basedColumbus, Ohio, USA
- educationBowling Green State University, B.S. Visual Communications Technology
- ai in the workflow sinceOct 2021
- elsewherelinkedin · github · x
What I'm working on next
Brand identity and design systems; AI-assisted content and design-to-code pipelines with human review gates built in. Scoped projects, honest timelines. Engagements run through Skelton Media.
Senior or staff design leadership and product roles on remote-first teams building AI products, for someone who can own the creative and still build it.
In-house teams. Remote-first from Columbus, Ohio (US Eastern). Applications go through the company's own careers page.
contact → · every engagement and application is a conversation with me, not an agent
What shipped, dated and traced
Every row below carries a ledger id. The build refuses a row whose id is not an approved claim in the source ledger, so what an agent reads here is what a human can check.
Huntington National BankWeb Content Marketing Manager
Creative direction on the AI product team. Brand, product design and the AI workflows that ship them, plus the enablement that gets the team using them.
Creative direction lead for platform and website UX on The 1866 Studio, announced October 2026, and its design system end to end.
announced 2026-10huntington_1866_studio_product_workTook the Team Huntington golf platform from idea to launch: design and art direction, the Sitecore build, and the email and campaign production behind it, with brand, legal and compliance review.
idea → launchevidence →huntington_golf_campaignGitHub Copilot workflows that translate Figma designs into responsive, ADA-conscious Salesforce Marketing Cloud HTML, with accessibility and compliance review intact.
days → hourshuntington_current_ai_workflowSitecore Content Hub taxonomy and governance for 200+ marketing assets, so a distributed team ships from one system.
200+ assetshuntington_current_damRuns internal AI enablement: the tools, guidance and practice that move colleagues from tool access to regular use.
enablementhuntington_ai_enablementArloaLead AI Product Designer
Generative AI platform that helps parents manage IEPs and school communication. Product, brand and go-to-market for a four-person team.
Brand identity, design system, web experience, acquisition flows and AI-assisted content workflows for a four-person team.
brand → productevidence →arloa_brand_productA Claude Code content workflow took publishing from four to 12 or more pieces a month, with no added headcount.
4 → 12+ /moevidence →arloa_content_outputUsers grew 40% quarter over quarter.
+40% QoQarloa_growthWorked in the product codebase with Claude Code and GitHub, reviewing and merging pull requests and running UX reviews alongside engineering.
PRs mergedevidence →arloa_codebase_collaborationLed the creative function for the company and directed an external agency on paid social and Google Ads.
creative leadarloa_creative_function_leadershipMantiumProduct Designer
Enterprise GenAI knowledge platform. Where the AI work starts.
Owned product design for an enterprise GenAI platform across three major releases.
3 releasesevidence →mantium_product_scopeOnboarding flows and interaction patterns that took a new enterprise customer's first deployment from 2+ hours to under 30 minutes.
2h → 30minmantium_deployment_timeCut customer onboarding from 8 screens to 2.
8 → 2 screensmantium_onboarding_8_to_2_screensBuilt a centralized AI knowledge base in Notion, integrated with Slack, that cut new-hire onboarding time by about 40%.
-40% onboardingmantium_newhire_onboardingHuntington National BankUX/UI Designer and Web Producer
Highest-traffic conversion pages and the email system behind them, with compliance at the table.
Modular Salesforce Marketing Cloud email design system with 50+ reusable templates. Production time down 30%.
-30% productionevidence →huntington_legacy_design_systemCardinal HealthSenior Web Producer
B2B healthcare platform inside a regulated enterprise.
Personalized Adobe Experience Manager experiences for 30,000+ healthcare professionals. 15% conversion lift through Adobe Target testing.
+15% conversionevidence →cardinal_web_personalizationSkelton MediaFounder
The studio. Client brand and web work since 2008; the agentic systems since 2024.
DavidOS, a local-first personal operating system: machine-checked agent manifests, a generated registry, approval and verification gates, and source-traced outputs.
governed agentsevidence →davidos_governanceThis site: markdown-sourced, one-command publish, a 26-check pre-deploy gate that blocks drafts, broken metadata, missing assets and leaked secrets.
26-check gateevidence →skeltonmedia_publishing_pipelineOpen-source Agent Skills on GitHub: design-taste-skills, brand-writing-skills and security-scan-agent, built for Claude Code, Codex and Cursor.
open sourceevidence →github_open_source_agent_skillsWhere the work lives
- creative direction
- brand identity
- design systems
- AI product design
- AI agent systems
- design-to-code (React, HTML/CSS, Python)
- Figma
- Claude Code
- Salesforce Marketing Cloud
- Sitecore Content Hub
- Adobe Experience Manager
- marketing operations
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