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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 don't need designers who can use the tools. They need designers who can hold the product together when the rules don't exist yet. That's been my whole career.
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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
Marketo / Adobe
The design system that survived an acquisition
Built Sky's design system from the ground up. Patterns contributed upstream to Adobe Spectrum.
Case Study
Marketo / Adobe
733% adoption increase through trust-first migration
Users weren't resistant to Sky. They were resistant to disruption. That was a design problem.
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.
Flower wall — color study
Stacked — junkyard
518 — urban texture
Vintage — interior detail
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Thoughts
Culture lives in what power permits
I used to think culture was set by the people in the room. The tone of a standup. The way a lead gave feedback. But the more places I've worked, the more I believe culture is shaped less by what people do and more by what leadership lets them get away with.
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Squidward would never. SpongeBob would.
Squidward is the designer who's seen it all. Too experienced to be surprised. Too "sensible" to chase anything that might not scale. SpongeBob, though? He's the one sketching fish with arms just to see what happens.
L Dante Guarin
Principal Product Designer
Irvine, CA · Over 13 years exp.
Experience at:
Adobe/Marketo
Upwork
Teamshares
Meroxa
T-Mobile
Selected work
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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