David Hawkins

Principal Product Designer for AI-native products.
I design human-in-the-loop experiences and build them in React and TypeScript.

Proven Results

55% faster delivery time

Improved workflow efficiency measured by end-to-end task completion time.

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15% throughput improvement

Law firms could handle higher caseloads without adding headcount.

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Shipped in under 100 days

Designed and delivered an Android application to the Google Play Store from concept to code.

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22% reduction of support tickets

Improved usability for document authoring workflows.

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20-app ecosystem

Created an enterprise design system and global experience platform 20 reporting and analytic applications.

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13+ years experience

Designing and developing enterprise and AI-native products

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My Expertise

Projects

Design LeadershipDesign Systems
July 15, 2026

Building a Design System From Zero to Sixty: How to Operationalize Consistency in High-Velocity Teams

There's a moment in every scaling product organization when someone notices the buttons. Not a button, the buttons. Fourteen of them, scattered across the codebase, each a slightly different shade of blue, each with…
Design LeadershipUX
February 3, 2026

What It Really Means to Be a Senior IC in Product Design Today

If you’ve been in the product design space for any meaningful length of time, you’ve watched the landscape shift dramatically. A decade ago, the value of an Individual Contributor (IC)…
Design LeadershipUX
January 6, 2026

Product Design Is Really About Reducing Risk

When most people outside of our discipline look at product design, they see the final layer of polish. They see the intuitive interfaces, the crisp typography, and the seamless user…
Design LeadershipUX
December 1, 2025

Design as a Multiplier: How UX Drives Technical Velocity Across Engineering and Product

When Design is integrated deeply into the product lifecycle, it stops being a decorative layer and becomes a force multiplier. Good UX isn't just about how a product looks; it’s…

About Me

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.

Certifications

Work Experience

2023 - 2026

Principal Product Designer - Precedent

2020 - 2023

Senior Product Designer - insightsoftware

2019 - 2020

Product Designer, Design Systems - Booz Allen Hamilton

2015 - 2019

Senior User Experience Designer - GEICO

2013 - 2015

User Experience Designer and Researcher - Fors Marsh Group

2011 - 2013

MA Human Factors and Applied Cognition - George Mason University