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Daniel Destefanis

Product Designer

Chicago, Illinois, United States14 yrs 1 mo experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led design for features used by millions daily.
  • Expert in product design and user experience.
  • Strong background in mentoring and team leadership.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Designer with expertise in SaaS and user experience design.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product DesignUser Experience (ux)

Other Skills

Adobe Creative SuiteAdobe PhotoshopBootstrapCSSCascading Style Sheets (CSS)DrupalGitGithubGraphic DesignGulpHTML 5Information ArchitectureJavaScriptJiraPhotoshop

About

San Francisco based product designer and developer.

Experience

14 yrs 1 mo
Total Experience
2 yrs 6 mos
Average Tenure
3 yrs 1 mo
Current Experience

Figma

2 roles

Principal Product Designer

Promoted

Aug 2024Present · 1 yr 10 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Remote

  • Working on AI

Staff Product Designer

May 2023Sep 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Remote

  • Working on Growth and Figma Community

Discord

3 roles

Senior Staff Product Designer

Jul 2022May 2023 · 10 mos

Product Design Manager

Promoted

Jan 2020Aug 2022 · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • I’ve been mentoring, coaching, and leading a team of five designers on Discord’s Growth organization.
  • I’ve helped set and contribute to our product strategy for Growth from yearly plans to individual experiment product specs.
  • Created and led various processes for the larger Design team such as onboarding resources, guides for hiring, conducting our team meetings, etc.

Senior Product Designer

Mar 2018Jan 2020 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • I designed and shipped multiple video chat and screen-sharing features for Discord which are now used by tens of millions of people every day on our desktop app and mobile apps (iOS and Android).
  • Owned several growth features end to end, such as phone registration, onboarding improvements, and contact book syncing. Each of which had a positive MAU impact.
  • Contributed reusable components to the design system and built open-source Figma plugins to help automate some of team's design tasks.
Visual DesignPrototypingUser Experience TestingProduct DesignUser Experience (UX)

Steelseries

Product Designer

Oct 2015Mar 2018 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Chicago

  • Designed, tested, and launched new features for SteelSeries peripheral software (SteelSeries Engine).
  • Designed, developed, and shipped redesigned versions of SteelSeries e-commerce pages, checkout flow, cart experience, and blog.
  • Tested product page design changes with users, shipped A/B experiments and drove incremental revenue by solving real user problems.
Visual DesignJavaScriptProduct DesignUser Experience (UX)Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

Palantir.net

Front End Developer and Designer

May 2014Oct 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos · Chicago

  • Developed and designed multiple Drupal and Wordpress sites for clients such as Yale, Foreign Affairs, and other non-profits.

Company chicago

Design Intern

May 2013May 2014 · 1 yr · Chicago

  • Worked part-time supporting a developer to build custom WordPress sites for Chicago businesses.

Freelance

Designer

May 2012May 2014 · 2 yrs · Chicago

Education

Columbia College Chicago

Interactive Art & Media — Mobile Media & Programming

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