You have the sauce,
I help bottle it.
Hey! I'm Dawson.
I'm a product designer with a background in UX research and front-end development, which means I can design the thing and then build it.
Before building academic tools, I taught STEM, and before that, special education. Eight years into designing, I still start with questions and curiosity, taking something complicated and making it make sense
You have the sauce, I help bottle it.
Building a design system can get messy. The best ones aren't the prettiest — they're the ones every person on the team can follow like a recipe.
The ketchup bottle is my favorite UX reference: an ordinary object designed so well it keeps working long after anyone stops thinking about it. That's the goal — products that hold up as teams and ideas grow.
Primary Skills
Prototyping
Figma to working prototype. Screens you can click through, not static mockups.
EdTech product design
I taught STEM. Now I design tools for teachers, students, and admins.
AI-assisted development
I ship front-end code with Claude Code: internal tools and working repos.
User Research
I run the research and see it through. Findings lead the build, not guesses.
Design Systems
Tokens, components, and docs. Built so the team can follow it like a recipe.
Video Production
direct and edit — my own content, plus client work. Story first.
See the sauce, bottled.
