L Dante Guarin
Irvine, CA
Your Design Lead is here.
Just not on your payroll.
I embed with product teams to find the right problem, sharpen execution, and ship products that move real metrics.
Senior design leadership when you need it — no long-term contracts, no bloated overhead.
Effective design needs properly defined problems
Constant back and forths, missed handoffs, misaligned priorities, products that are almost ready but never quite there.
The root is usually the same: no one owns the quality bar or knows how to define the right problem before building it.
That's where I come in.
Let's build together!
If your team needs a strong design hand — whether you're pre-product market fit or scaling through a critical growth phase — I'd love to hear what you're working on.