Aria McKnight

Director of UX/UI at Launchcodex

Aria creates intuitive, accessible design systems that improve user trust, conversion, and scale. She brings AI-informed rigor to every flow.

More about Aria McKnight

Aria is a product designer turned UX strategist based in Boston. She has led design for venture-backed SaaS platforms, mobile apps, and high-volume ecommerce, turning complex journeys into simple choices that convert. Her approach is empathic and minimal, anchored in research and ruthless about clarity. She believes great UX is a system, not a set of screens. For more than a decade, Aria has built component libraries, design tokens, and UI patterns that ship faster without sacrificing craft. She pairs user testing, analytics, and heuristic reviews with a strong intuition for what feels right in the hand. Teams count on her to remove friction, raise trust, and keep interfaces consistent, from buttons and states to empty-states and error copy.

Expertise

Aria’s expertise spans UX audits, UI systems, accessibility, user testing, and design strategy. She creates scalable design languages, component libraries, and QA checklists that reduce churn, increase activation, and improve conversion across the funnel.

Clarity is kind to users. I design for effortless choices.

Aria McKnight

Focus at Launchcodex

At Launchcodex, Aria leads UX and UI systems across client engagements. She maps journeys, defines patterns, and partners with strategy and engineering to connect narrative to interaction. Her focus is simple, make it effortless for users to complete key tasks and return. She builds with accessibility first and uses AI and automation to speed research, pattern audits, and design QA.