DESIGN LEADER. AI BUILDER. ORG FIXER.

Twenty years doing three things on repeat: building design teams, shipping AI products, and fixing the orgs that need both — at Prudential, Northwell, Bloomberg, and now Google.

Currently Building agentic experiences @ Google // Core AI

The numbers behind the work

20+ years of experience, from OpenLink to Google

40+ designers led and mentored, across three design teams

15 industry awards, at Prudential, Northwell and more

What I Do

Good experiences don't happen by accident. Neither do good organizations.

I build both, from either side of the org chart: leading the team, or shipping the work myself. And I help companies adopt AI without leaving their people behind. That's the work.

Who I've built for

Google, Bloomberg, Prudential Financial, Northwell Health, General Motors, Dealertrack & JD Power ChromeData, OpenLink Financial.

Ways to Work Together

01 Lead

Design Orgs at Scale

Building and scaling design teams: hiring, career paths, DesignOps, and the exec relationships that keep design funded.

2 → 15+ at Northwell · 40+ designers led

02 Build

IC Design Engineering

Hands-on again, on purpose: agentic AI, prototypes in production code, and the design systems underneath them.

Mimir at Google · 6 agents · 43 skills

03 Advise

Consulting & AI Adoption

Fractional design leadership, board advisory, and AI adoption that scales across product design without losing the people who have to use it.

Prudential's first generative AI product · Board advisor

04 Teach & Align

Workshops, Talks & Alignment

Getting product, engineering and the business working from one plan, and keeping the joy in the work while you do it.

Prudential CX Conference speaker · Kedplasma workshop · PI Planning sessions

Toolkit Design systems · Research · Accessibility · Brand · Motion · Prototyping in code

"Dan — how do you actually work with AI? Is it the future? Will it doom us all?"

Daily. Probably. Not if designers stay in the room. The longer answer doesn't fit in a LinkedIn post, so I built a whole page: the stack I use, how the workflow runs, and what it's actually shipped.

See How I Work With AI

The Lore

Dan is all the things: a trusted mentor to his reports, an ally and pillar to his business partners, a breath of innovation to his product and technology partners, and the invisible future of experience to all the customers that enjoy his work. He made the best days better and the tough ones fun — always able to find the grace and wisdom in what most overlook.
Dave EbertVP Digital Experience · Bloomberg
The last 0→1 platform I led reached ~500K visitors a year.

LET'S BUILD SOMETHING.

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