L Dante Guarin — Product Designer · Greater Los Angeles
Product design that ships — for startups scaling fast, and enterprise teams filling gaps.
As a hands-on product designer and fractional design lead, I partner with seed-to-Series-B teams and enterprise orgs filling gaps in headcount, workflow, and tooling — turning fuzzy ideas into shipped, systemized product.
SHAPED BY EXPERIENCE at
Gibson Guitar · Adobe · Marketo · Upwork · T‑Mobile · Teamshares
What I do
Design that moves with your stage.
Product Design (0→1 & beyond)
Full-cycle design from early research to interfaces your engineers can actually build.
Design Systems
Component libraries and tokens so your team ships consistently without you in every review.
Fractional Design Leadership
Senior design direction and mentorship, part-time, for teams not ready to hire full-time.
Prototyping & Validation
Interactive prototypes that get you real user signal before you build the wrong thing.
Web & Mobile Apps
End-to-end design for applications, from first screen to shipped product.
How I work
A calm, senior process built for speed.
01
Understand
Research users, business objectives, and constraints.
02
Design & iterate
Rapid prototyping and validation.
03
Ship & systemize
Specifications and system documentation.
AI-native practice
AI as a design multiplier.
I fold AI directly into the design process to codify guardrails in your design system and compress the distance between idea and production. The result: fewer inconsistencies, faster iterations, and more room for senior judgment where it matters.
01 / Guardrails
Guardrails in the system
AI checks every screen against your design system — spacing, tokens, orphaned components — before it ships.
02 / Velocity
Accelerated product design
From brief to high-fidelity concepts in a fraction of the time.
03 / Judgment
Senior judgment in the loop
AI handles the repetitive work; strategy and decisions stay human-led.
Who I help
Built for seed-to-Series-B startups, and Enterprise orgs filling gaps in headcount, workflow, and tooling.
Whether you’re chasing product-market fit or scaling a growing team, I plug in at the right level — from a founder’s first designer to a fractional lead steadying an in-house team.
Seed-stage teams
Series A / B scale-ups
Design-led product teams
Enterprise orgs filling gaps in headcount, workflow, or tooling
Let’s work together
Have a fuzzy idea worth shipping?
Tell me where you are and what you’re building. I’ll reply within a day.