Warren Hansen
Designer. Software Developer.
A filmmaker’s eye. A developer’s toolkit.
I’m an Emmy Award-winning cinematographer turned software developer, bringing decades of visual storytelling and design experience to modern software development. Using AI-assisted tools, I create thoughtful, beautifully designed applications that are as functional as they are engaging.
Two regional Emmy Awards
PSA for “Take It Outside.” NATAS Mid‑America, 1998 and 1999.
Four apps on the App Store
Designed, built and shipped independently. Plus many internal corporate apps and startups in stealth mode.
National commercial work
60+ brands, including Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, Walmart, Target, AT&T, Burger King, Kellogg’s and L’Oréal.
UI design
Upgraded multiple MVPs to commercial-quality user interfaces.
How I work
I run AI like a film crew.
On set, the cinematographer doesn’t hold every light — but every frame answers to them. I build software the same way: large language models write a lot of the code, and I set the direction, review every take, and require tests before anything is called done. The result is ambitious work, delivered quickly, that someone else can pick up and maintain.
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Frame the idea
We define the outcome first: who it’s for, what it has to do, and what it should feel like. Sketches and interface designs before code.
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Build fast, verify everything
AI-assisted development with automated tests at every step, so speed never comes at the cost of something that quietly breaks.
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Hand off something real
A working product or demo, documented source in your own accounts, and clear notes for whoever takes it next.
Ways to work together
From a first conversation to a working demonstration.
Fractional creative technologist
A few focused hours a week inside your team — prototyping apps, AI tools, interfaces and marketing concepts.
Prototype and MVP sprints
For founders: take one idea to a polished, working prototype you can test with users or show to investors.
AI video and commercial production
Product films and short-form ads that pair AI generation with two decades of cinematography judgment.
Workshops and mentoring
Practical sessions on building with AI, app development and visual storytelling, for teams or programs.
Projects are scoped individually, with a defined outcome and handoff. Your team owns its accounts and infrastructure; ongoing support is available by separate agreement.
Selected work
Apps, films and the space between.
iOS game · Live on the App Store
Cybercab Tycoon: Robotaxi
A robotaxi fleet-management simulation, designed and built end to end — live demand maps, fleet routing and city economics.
iOS education app · Live on the App Store
Lex — Think Like a Lawyer
An app for learning legal reasoning, one case at a time.
Film · Commercials · Television
Selected cinematography work
Commercial, film and television work, including Morgan Freeman for Discovery Channel.
AI-generated concept films · 2026
Hansen Design commercial examples
Self-directed product films showing what AI production looks like with a cinematographer behind it.
About
A visual background. A builder’s curiosity.
I spent two decades behind the camera — commercials, film and television, with a lot of VFX along the way. That work taught me how to lead a complex production and finish it. Over the past several years I’ve put the same discipline into software: iOS apps, games, 3D lighting and trading tools.
I recently moved from California to Northwest Arkansas, and I’m looking for interesting people and hard problems in the community here.
Have something worth building?
Tell me about the project, the help you need and your timing. Coffee in Bentonville or Fayetteville works too.
design@warrenhansen.com