Ryan Wolper · Creative Director | UI/UX
UI+UX Director for Live-Service and AAA games.
Fifteen years directing UI teams on shipped titles — VALORANT, Marvel's Midnight Suns, Old World, DROPZONE, Elder Scrolls: Legends, and more.
Currently Creative Director at UX is Fine, leading embedded UI/UX teams on AAA engagements. Get in touch →
01 | UX is Fine · 2021 — present
UX is Fine
Creative Director
Embedded UI/UX direction across AAA and Indie studios.
UX is Fine is a game UI/UX agency that embeds with the world's largest studios. I joined in 2021 as UI Art Director, moved to UI/UX Director in 2023, and have led the agency as Creative Director since then.
Owning creative direction across concurrent AAA engagements, building and managing embedded teams, and running the operational infrastructure that lets the studio scale.
5yrs
UI/UX → Creative Director
34+
Studio Partners
Creative Director at a UI/UX agency that embeds with the world's largest game studios.
I lead embedded, strategic strike teams with disciplined focus — setting the quality bar, building the discipline, and delivering UI/UX through live-service cadences across multiple concurrent AAA engagements. Clients include Riot Games (VALORANT 2.0 and VALORANT Mobile, through 2022), plus several additional AAA titles currently under NDA.
02 | Flint Collective · 2019 — Present
Flint Collective
Founder & Creative Director
Embedded Branding, Consulting and UI/UX Direction
The studios building games and the audiences playing them benefit from the same kind of careful design thinking, and there were very few places that did both.
Over the years, Flint embedded inside studios as a UI/UX partner on shipped AAA titles — and runs as a parallel practice designing the brands and channels gaming audiences actually follow.
7yrs
Founder & Director
600+
Individual Engagements
Cross-discipline agency working at the intersection of UI/UX, branding, and game development.
Brand identity, channel design, and community-facing systems for 600+ streamers and creators. A direct, sustained look at how gaming audiences discover and form communities around the products studios make.
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![Artwork featuring five characters from the game Valorant, with the Valorant logo and title in the foreground.]()
VALORANT
Creative Director leading the embedded UX is Fine team through 18 months of full co-development with Riot Games on VALORANT's cross-platform UI evolution across PC and mobile.
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![Marvel Midnight Suns logo with various Marvel characters in the background.]()
Marvel's Midnight Suns
Embedded as a UI/UX specialist for experimental game modes, working with the Game Designer and Lead UI Director on flows the core team didn't have the bandwidth to explore.
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![Logo featuring a tree inside a circular Greek key border with the text 'Old World' below, set against a dark forest background with characters in medieval armor and clothing.]()
Old World
Solo external UI consultant working async with Mohawk Games pre-Early Access, delivering the menu and HUD, icon system, and FTUE animations that shipped with the final product.
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![Logo for the Elder Scrolls Legends video game with a black cracked background, gold text, and a star-shaped symbol.]()
The Elder Scrolls Legends
Lead UI Designer on a compressed engine rebuild, redesigning the full player-facing UI across PC, tablet, and mobile in nine months as Sparkypants took over the live title from Dire Wolf Digital.
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![Logo for Dropzone featuring a triangular icon with three circular shapes inside, set against a dark background with mountain peaks.]()
Dropzone
Lead UI Designer owning the full pipeline from research and wireframes through front-end implementation in Coherent Labs middleware.
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![Logo featuring a skull with dog ears and sunglasses, surrounded by the text 'ROTTING JACCAL' on a dark background.]()
Rotting Jackal
Founder of a creator brand practice that became a direct player-research channel, gaining sustained firsthand insight into how gaming audiences discover and form communities around the products they love.
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![Cartoon fire with a beer mug and the words 'Is fine.' The fire contains the word 'LUX' and the flames are yellow and orange.]()
UX is Fine
Creative Director at UX is Fine leading embedded, strategic strike teams with disciplined focus across AAA and Indie game titles.
03 | Firaxis / 2k / Flint Collective · 2020 — 2022
Marvel’s Midnight Suns
UI / UX Partner
In partnership with the Firaxis Games team.
Embedded as a UI/UX specialist for experimental game modes, working with the Game Designer and Lead UI Director on flows the core team didn't have the bandwidth to explore.
04 | Mohawk Games / Flint Collective · 2019 — 2021
Old World
UI Design & Animation
Embedded development with Mohawk Games as the solo external UI consultant on Old World
The work covered three parallel areas across the full engagement: the menu and HUD, a full icon system for the game's mechanics and flow, and FTUE tutorial animations introducing players to the game's systems. All three went into the product that shipped to Early Access in 2021 and to wide release in May 2022.
05 | Sparkypants / Bethesda · 2017 — 2019
The Elder Scrolls: Legends
Lead UI/UX Designer
Led UI/UX Design across all disciplines and platforms.
Lead UI Designer on a compressed engine rebuild, redesigning the full player-facing UI across PC, tablet, and mobile in nine months as Sparkypants took over the live title from Dire Wolf Digital.
06 | Sparkypants / Gameforge · 2014 — 2019
DROPZONE
Lead UI/UX Designer + Dev
Led UI/UX Design across all disciplines and platforms.
Lead UI Designer and Developer at Sparkypants Studios from 2014 through 2019. Every screen, every flow, every animation, from wireframe to front-end implementation in Coherent Labs middleware on a proprietary engine, plus the cross-discipline team that made it all ship.
Contact · RW@ryanwolper.com