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

I design systems

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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.

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.

Perspective

Designing for people who live in the product

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

Perspective

When AI does the work and humans stay accountable

On designing clinical AI — where automation and professional responsibility share the same interface.

Perspective

Designing at the moment of care

On building products for users whose minds are elsewhere — and what healthcare taught me about designing for the moments that matter most.

Thoughts & Observations

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…

Navigating Ambiguity
Thoughts

Navigating Ambiguity

There are two kinds of fog. Confusing them is how teams end up solving the wrong problem with confidence.

Growing leaders
Thoughts

Growing leaders

On the quiet work of helping people find their direction — and why the real legacy isn't the projects or the pixels.

SpongeBob would
Thoughts

Squidward would never. SpongeBob would.

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

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