Luke Woodsmy story
résumé

Nice to meet you.

I’m Luke, a product designer who tells the story and builds the thing. Every project I’ve shipped started small: a ticket, a complaint, a vague ask. The part I’m good at is what comes next: finding the real problem underneath, telling the story that gets a team behind it, and building it, in Figma and in code.

  • I bred and sold reptiles nationwide

  • Earning a CS degree at BYU, HCI emphasis

  • Luke waist-deep in the Kenai River in Alaska, grinning and holding up a large salmon

    I love outdoor adventures (Kenai, Alaska)

  • A CS degree means I build what I design

  • A small boy in an orange striped shirt walking a dog on a red retractable lead down a suburban sidewalk

    My first business was walking the neighbours’ dogs

  • Utah Jazz, win or lose

  • Luke with a snake draped over his shoulders

    I love animals of all kinds

  • Luke Woods standing on a stone balcony in a light blue suit

    Hi, I’m Luke Woods

  • Luke in a car holding his black cat Obi up against his shoulder

    My cat Obi

  • I’m a Figma Campus Leader

  • Currently in Provo, Utah

  • Luke balanced on his bike at the top of the plywood ramp he built in the backyard

    I have loved building things my entire life

  • Luke smiling in a selfie on a Grand Canyon trail, canyon ridges stretching out behind him

    26 miles across the Grand Canyon

  • Luke in black scrubs and a mask holding an eye-testing instrument up to an older patient seated in an exam chair

    Before design, I ran eye exams

  • Building startup software through Sandbox

My experience

  1. Product Design Intern@ Lucid2026

    Designed the Lucid AI assistant on the homepage: find a document by what you remember, summarize it, catch up, or generate a new board. Blank page to general availability in twelve weeks, across every tier.

    The AI assistant on Lucid’s homepage. Blank page to general availability in twelve weeks.

    May – August 2026

  2. Product Design Intern@ Awardco2025

    Redesigned fragmented authentication (login, MFA, SSO, password recovery, mobile verification) into one guided system, and wrote the AI-prototyping guide the design team now uses.

    Login, MFA, SSO and recovery, redesigned into one guided system.

    October 2025 – April 2026

  3. Product Design Intern@ Pattern2025

    Redesigned the Custom Reports workflow inside the Predict platform over a nine-week project, after discovery interviews turned a duplicate-widget ticket into a reporting problem.

    Rebuilt the Custom Reports workflow in Predict, after discovery reframed the ticket.

    January – October 2025

  4. Product Design Intern@ Hoth2024

    Product design at an early-stage encrypted work platform, formerly Mention. The case study is written but password-protected while it clears review.

    Product design at an early-stage encrypted work platform, formerly Mention.

    December 2024 – April 2025

  5. Web UX/UI Designer@ BYU College of Humanities2024

    Designed and shipped updates to 10+ websites in the Brightspot CMS, running 20+ client meetings to get there. My first real lesson in designing for stakeholders who all want different things.

    Updates to 10+ websites in the Brightspot CMS, and the 20+ client meetings to get there.

    May – December 2024

Alongside all of it

  1. Co-PresidentBYU UX Design AssociationWorkshops, and a lot of first critiques.
  2. Campus LeaderFigmaThe person on campus who gets people into the file.
  3. UX Designer & DeveloperHarold B. Lee LibraryInformation architecture for users with nothing in common.
  4. BuildingSandbox, BYU’s incubatorSoftware for real estate and hotel operations.

Pick one up. Some of them have a story.

The reptile business

Everyone has a thing. Mine was a company. Through high school I bred snakes and lizards in a room at my parents’ house and sold them across the country on MorphMarket. That meant learning genetics, veterinary basics, photography, listings, pricing, live shipping and customer service, because there was nobody else to do any of it.

animals at the peak, in one room
a year in sales, while in high school
shipped to buyers across the country
  • Luke kneeling in black scrubs, giving a thumbs up over a plastic bin holding a litter of newborn boa constrictors

    A litter of boas, a few days old. This was the product.

  • Luke holding a ball python steady on a towel while a vet runs an ultrasound probe along it, children watching from the floor

    Ultrasounding a gravid female. You learn veterinary skill fast when the animals are the inventory.

  • Luke standing arms-folded beside the shelved rodent-breeding racks he built in a shed

    Feed was the biggest running cost, so I bred the mice and rats myself and took it off the books.

  • Luke in his reptile room holding a large snake across both hands, glass enclosures stacked along the wall behind him

    About a hundred animals at the peak.

  • Luke sitting on the floor in front of a wall of lit enclosures, talking a friend through what lives in them

    Visitors got the tour whether they asked for it or not.

  • A teenage Luke grinning on a porch with a savannah monitor lizard held against his chest

    Where it started. One lizard, no business plan.

  • Luke and his dad in ear protection, clamping and drilling a wooden enclosure frame on a patio table

    I built the enclosures instead of buying them.

  • Luke standing in front of a hedge with a large albino Burmese python draped across his shoulders and both arms

    Some of them got big.

The incubator

Eighteen eggs, and no margin for a silent failure.

Big Bertha, my 15-foot reticulated python, laid 18 eggs while I was in high school. Each baby was worth real money, around $10,000 across the clutch, so I built an incubator from scratch: a drinks fridge, fans and sensors to hold heat and humidity, and alerts so I would know the moment anything drifted. A missed reading was not a bug ticket. It was a dead animal. I have designed around the failure modes first ever since.

  • 15 ft of snake
  • 18 eggs
  • $10k on the line
  • Big Bertha, a pale albino reticulated python, coiled in a long enclosure with her head raised

    Big Bertha. Fifteen feet, and the reason the incubator got built.

  • A glass-fronted Rockstar Energy Drink fridge repurposed as an incubator, with four clear tubs of eggs on perlite stacked inside

    The incubator was a drinks fridge, rewired with fans, sensors and alerts.

  • Five large white python eggs on a plastic grid over perlite in a clear tub, a heating panel behind them

    Eggs on a grid over perlite, inside the fridge.

  • Luke’s hand beside four python eggs for scale, each egg longer than his palm

    Bigger than they look. Eighteen of these, and no margin for a silent failure.

The best part

It was never the animals. It was handing one to someone who was sure they’d hate it.

  • Luke leaning over a classroom desk, offering a bearded dragon on each open hand to two seated students

    My mom’s elementary class, meeting a bearded dragon.

  • Luke steadying a boa constrictor draped across a child’s shoulders in the reptile room

    A boa is heavier than anyone expects.

  • Luke laughing at the rodent racks while a child lifts a rat out of a bin

    Even the feeders made friends.

  • Luke holding a snake up to an iMac showing a grid of elementary students on a video call

    And over Zoom, the year school happened at home.

  • Luke passing a corn snake hand to hand with a child in front of a wall of enclosures

    Friends, family, anyone who’d hold still.

Kind words

I had the pleasure of managing Luke as a UX intern at Lucid this summer, where he worked on our doclist AI hub — a fast-moving product area that pushed him from day one. What stood out right away was his execution instinct.

Jiaqi ZhuoSenior UX Designer, Lucid

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