David Hawkins

UX Research | Product Design | Front-end Development

I'm a product designer who ships code. I research personas and business needs, design end-to-end workflows, then build component libraries in front-end code.

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Proven Results

55% faster delivery time

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

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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% fewer support tickets

Improved usability for document authoring workflows.

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20-app ecosystem

Global experience platform for 20 reporting and analytic applications.

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About Me

I’m a product designer who ships code.

Over the last 13 years 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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Work Experience

2023 - 2026

Principal Product Designer - Precedent

2020 - 2023

Senior Product Designer - insightsoftware

2019 - 2020

Product Designer - Booz Allen Hamilton (NSF)

2015 - 2019

Senior User Experience Designer - GEICO

2013 - 2015

User Experience Researcher - Fors Marsh Group

2011 - 2013

MA Human Factors and Applied Cognition - George Mason University

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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…
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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)…
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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…
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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…
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