L Dante Guarin Product Designer • Greater Los Angeles Area Formerly @ Adobe • Marketo • Upwork • T-Mobile • Teamshares

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L Dante Guarin L Dante Guarin  |  Designer  |  OC, CA

Brass Tacks

Over 10 years designing where complex systems and real user need overlap on the Venn diagram. Marketo, Upwork, Meroxa, Teamshares, T-Mobile.

AI products need designers who can hold the product together when the rules don't exist yet. That's been my whole career.

Selected work

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Teamshares

Payroll reporting

Saving Teamshares ~$3.1M annually without adding or subtracting headcount.

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Teamshares

A hiring engine for a company of companies

Reframing a recruiting tool into talent pipeline infrastructure for 90+ acquired businesses.

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Marketo / Adobe

The design system that survived an acquisition

Built Sky's design system from the ground up. Patterns contributed upstream to Adobe Spectrum.

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Marketo / Adobe

733% adoption increase through trust-first migration

Users were resistant to disruption. That was a design problem.

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Meroxa

Pivoting from a builder to a data observability platform

How a discovery in research forced a pivot that opened doors for Meroxa.

Charlie Murphy's Law Thoughts

Charlie Murphy's Law

Surprises in product design come in a few flavors. There are the ones you bring on yourself…

Culture lives in what power permits Thoughts

Culture lives in what power permits

I used to think culture was set by the people in the room…

SpongeBob would Thoughts

Squidward would never. SpongeBob would.

Squidward is the designer who's seen it all. Too experienced to be surprised…

Perspective

What I've learned building design systems that last

On governance, breaking patterns intentionally, and why the org chart matters more than the component library.

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Why financial platforms are systems problems

On fragmentation, dual personas, and what payroll across 90+ companies taught me about designing for money that moves.

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Designing platforms where two sides need each other

On dual-persona design, the craft of making both sides feel served, and what payroll networks share with creator platforms.

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Designing infrastructure people trust with their money

On visibility, complex workflows, and why the design patterns in traditional payments carry into digital currency.

Perspective

Where brand storytelling meets the buy button

On product narratives, commerce flows, and what selling guitars taught me about the moment a story becomes a transaction.

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Designing for people who live in the product

On cognitive load, multi-persona platforms, and what full-day software demands from a design system.

Flower wall
Flower wall — color study
Gordon Gartrell
Gordon Gartrell
It's quiet in here.
Put some music on.
Industrial window
518 — urban texture

L Dante Guarin
Product Designer • Greater Los Angeles Area

Formerly @ Adobe • Marketo • Upwork • T-Mobile • Teamshares • Meroxa

13+ Years of Product Design Experience
6 In-house Product Teams
5 Design Systems
Case Study

Teamshares

Payroll reporting

Saving Teamshares ~$3.1M annually without adding or subtracting headcount.

Case Study

Teamshares

A hiring engine for a company of companies

Reframing a recruiting tool into talent pipeline infrastructure for 90+ acquired businesses.

Case Study

Meroxa

Pivoting from a builder to a data observability platform

How a discovery in research forced a pivot that opened doors for Meroxa.

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