Andrew Cunliffe
Creator of Raven MCP

Andrew
Cunliffe

Senior Staff Designer & Product Strategist

I drive platform visions and make company-wide AI+Human experiences a reality. Design strategy at the enterprise scale — setting the direction for how millions of customers interact with AI, then making sure those experiences actually ship and thrive.

Raven MCP was born from a simple frustration: AI can write code, but it can't design. It doesn't know Nielsen's heuristics. It doesn't understand Gestalt. It reaches for Comic Sans when it should reach for Inter. I built Raven to fix that — permanently.

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What I Do

Platform vision meets enterprise execution

Design Strategy

Setting the vision for how products evolve. I connect business goals to customer outcomes through design — not just pixels, but the decisions behind them.

AI + Human Experiences

Designing enterprise-scale experiences where AI and humans work together seamlessly. Smart handoffs, trust calibration, and interfaces that make AI actually useful.

Platform Vision

I define the design direction for entire platforms — not individual features. Systems-level thinking that shapes how millions of customers experience a product.

AI Design Intelligence

Building the tools that give AI real design taste. RavenMCP is the proof — 129 principles, 22 patterns, 12 design systems, 5 brand voice guides, research methods, service blueprints, and a framework that turns Claude into a design-literate partner.

Design Systems

Tokens, patterns, standards — the shared language that makes consistent experiences possible at scale. I think in systems because one-off decisions don't survive contact with reality.

Concept to Code

I don't hand off — I ship. From strategy to working product in the same brain. AI is the force multiplier, taste is the filter.

Why I Built Raven

Design knowledge shouldn't be locked in people's heads

The problem is simple: AI can generate UI, but it doesn't understand why one layout works and another doesn't. It doesn't know that cards need consistent padding, that contrast ratios have legal minimums, or that Fitts's Law governs every button you've ever clicked.

Senior designers carry decades of this knowledge. When they review AI output, they see dozens of violations instantly. But that expertise doesn't transfer to the AI — it just gets corrected and forgotten.

Raven changes that. It gives Claude access to 129 design principles, 22 UI + content + service patterns, 12 design system token sets, 5 brand voice guides, research methods with protocols, service-design patterns with a two-actor blueprint generator, brand-and-visual guidance with current trends, and strategic frameworks — all through MCP. The AI doesn't guess at design anymore. It knows.

~ claude "build a dashboard"
# Without Raven:
→ Generic layout, random colors, no system

~ claude "build a dashboard" --mcp raven
# With Raven:
→ Calls get_design_system("linear")
→ Calls get_principles("hierarchy")
→ Calls get_pattern("data-table")
→ Calls evaluate_design()
→ Ships pixel-perfect, accessible UI

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