David Hawkins
Principal Product Designer for AI-native products.
I design human-in-the-loop experiences and build them in React and TypeScript.
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My Expertise
UX Engineering
Bridging design and development through React component creation to guarantee absolute design-to-dev parity.
Experience Design
Crafting seamless, end-to-end user journeys that solve complex problems across multi-product ecosystems.
Product Design Leadership
Bridging the gap between executive strategy and tactical execution to deliver scalable, high-impact product experiences.
AI Interactions
Seamlessly embedding intelligent features into core workflows to augment human capabilities, reduce friction, and drive measurable efficiency.
Design Systems
Architecting token-based design system for multi-product ecosystems with variable-driven Figma components that accelerate feature velocity.
UX Research
Driving qualitative and quantitative research to define user personas and translate data into actionable feature development.
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I’m a product designer who ships code. I design experiences in Figma, then build in React and TypeScript, which is what lets me move fast on hard problems: AI-native products, agentic interfaces, and design systems that live in code instead of a handoff doc.
Underneath that is a foundation in Human Factors and Applied Cognition, rigorous research methods for understanding how people actually think, behave, and make errors. Over the last decade I’ve led end-to-end product design, architected robust design systems, and driven UX strategy across complex, data-rich enterprise products.
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