Chirp AI-Powered Code Modernization Tool

Chirp | An AI-Powered Code Modernization Tool

Overview

Contributing to product strategy and experience design for an AI-powered platform that helps enterprises transform legacy systems into modern, cloud-native applications. The platform lets organizations modernize faster and more efficiently while reducing delivery risk.

Client

Internal Product / External Client Solutions

My Role

Product Designer

Timeframe

6/2026 - Present

Collaborating Teams

Engineering, Delivery Partners, Managing Directors, Prospective Clients

Project Brief

Legacy systems are expensive to run and hard to change. Business logic gets locked into decades of undocumented decisions, which turns modernization into a project measured in years instead of months. Chirp uses generative AI to shorten that path. It reads legacy applications, surfaces the business rules buried inside them, and generates modern code, documentation, tests, and deployment support in their place.

50% - 80%

Reduction in delivery & legacy system costs

10x

Faster speed to market & migration

50%

Less time and cost to deliver new capabilities

What AI Changes

One of the biggest challenges in modernizing legacy systems is understanding how they actually work. Important logic can be buried across thousands of lines of code or exist only in the knowledge of people who are no longer there.
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Generative AI can analyze large codebases, identify patterns and dependencies, and surface logic that would be difficult to uncover manually.
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That changes what I’m designing for. The interface isn’t just presenting information. It helps people understand and question what AI has found or generated, then decide whether they can trust it. Designing for that judgment became a central part of the work.

My Role

How I contributed to the project’s success

Shaped and defined the next major iteration of the tool, owning the information architecture, wireframes, and end-to-end UX design to align user needs with business and technical goals.

Partner with developers, delivery partners, managing directors, and prospective clients to translate new use cases into platform functionality without fragmenting the product's information architecture.

Design and prototype directly using AI-assisted design tools, owning UX and UI for new features and workflows.

Key UX Activities

Platform Ramp-up & Discovery

Hosted design thinking workshops with leadership to understand the vision behind the next big release of the tool. Owned information architecture, navigation strategy, and wireframing, iterating on designs to balance user needs with business objectives and technical requirements.
Met with internal delivery teams and partners to understand new modernization use cases across a range of legacy environments.

Synthesis & Strategy

Mapped new use cases onto Chirp's existing architecture, identifying where the product needed to flex versus where a use case should be normalized to existing patterns.
Helped define what goes into the product roadmap and which new features get prioritized, working with delivery leadership to weigh client demand against long-term product direction.
Shaped the next version of the tool itself, not just individual use cases, so Chirp continues to evolve and expand as a product rather than accumulating one-off additions.

Design & Iteration

Designed and prototyped new functionality using AI-assisted design tools and vibe-coding, moving quickly between concept and testable prototype
Iterated on UI/UX based on feedback from stakeholder and client demos.

Development & Enablement

Partnered with engineering to move validated designs into the shipped product.
Supported client-facing demos with working prototypes to build stakeholder confidence ahead of engagement kickoffs.

The above visuals have been modified and anonymized to comply with client confidentiality agreements and are intended to illustrate my skills, process, and outcomes. Feel free to reach out to learn more!