Projects by Neil Yarnal
- WeMentor — WeMentor — Find your Circle, 2026. Community & mentorship. A localized peer-to-peer mentorship network — built end-to-end with founder Andrew Bresee. Role: Creative Director & Communal Design Steward. Services: Brand identity, Product design, Design token system, Communal Design facilitation, Marketing & community campaign. Technologies: Figma, After Effects, React, Design tokens. Keywords: WeMentor, Find your Circle, peer-to-peer mentorship, Boulder Colorado, community platform, Communal Design, context pack, single source of truth, Janusha Ventures.
- CU ATLAS — University of Colorado, Q2/Q3, 2026. Higher education · Interdisciplinary research. A unified product surface for an interdisciplinary research institute — built so students, faculty, and outside collaborators can actually find each other's work. Role: UI/X Design & AI FDE. Services: UI/X design, AI forward-deployed engineering, Product design, Research interfaces. Technologies: Figma, React, TypeScript, LLM tooling. Keywords: CU ATLAS, University of Colorado, interdisciplinary institute, AI FDE, research platform.
- EthBoulder — EthBoulder — Fork The Frontier, 2026. Ethereum · Web3 · Events. A first-of-its-kind, fully async build for a decentralized Ethereum gathering in Boulder, CO — assembled by contributors around the world using communal design as the operating system. Role: Brand Track Lead & Communal Design Steward. Services: Brand identity, Communal Design facilitation, Event creative direction, Web design (Webflow), Product design (Schelling Point app). Technologies: Figma, Webflow, React, TypeScript. Keywords: EthBoulder, Ethereum, communal design, decentralized event, Schelling Point, Boulder Colorado, Fork The Frontier.
- ComfortAI — ComfortAI, 2024. HVAC and home services. An omnichannel HVAC monitoring system connecting homeowners, technicians, and field teams across web, mobile, and in-home hardware. Role: Creative Director. Services: Brand systems, Product design, Design systems, AI workflow design, Print and field collateral. Technologies: Figma, React, TypeScript, 3D, Print production. Keywords: HVAC monitoring, omnichannel system, AI virtual technician, field service software, predictive alerts, Kelvin character system.
Projects
Systems shipped, in depth.
Product · Brand2023
Oursky
Democratizing astrophotography — product and brand design for a consumer telescope and companion app.
Problem
Astrophotography is gatekept by gear, technique, and software complexity.
Approach
Designed a friendly product surface that hides telescope complexity behind guided capture.
Outcome
A consumer product getting first-timers to usable astro images on night one.
Public Team
- Alex Hawkinson, Co-Founder
- Won Chul Kim, Co-Founder
- Ian Lauer, Co-Founder
- Nathan Hanks, Advisor
- Tom Ebert, Fractional CMO & Advisor
Our build teams may not reflect management, in present. Early-stage work often requires managerial shifts to achieve proper scale.
Problem
Astrophotography sits behind layers of gear, technique, and software that most curious people never get past. Oursky wanted a brand and product surface that invited beginners in without alienating the hobbyist community already pointed at the sky.
Approach
We anchored the system around a single idea: democratize the sky. From there, every decision — wordmark, palette, voice, product UI — had to read as both grounded and future-forward. We built a flexible identity that could flex from a phone-in-hand consumer moment to a deep community feed.
Build notes
The system is built from four primary spectrums (yellow, blue, purple, red) layered against black and white, with secondary stellar hues that map to product moments. Typography pairs Obviously with Jakarta Sans for utility, and IBM Plex Mono / Playfair Display for longer-form and editorial voice. Iconography stays grounded — geometric, slightly mechanical, never decorative.
Product
The product surface translates the brand into something a first-time user can actually hold. The Alpha companion app keeps the cosmos legible at a glance — find your place, explore, and connect with the community of fellow observers.
Outcome
A consumer product and brand system that gets first-timers to a usable astro image on night one, while giving the existing community a surface worth posting into. The system has continued to extend across product launches, community programs, and partner integrations.