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Darian Rosebrook

@darianrosebrook.com

I'm Darian Rosebrook, a Staff Design Technologist with a background that bridges branding, UX, and system-level design engineering across some of the world's largest product ecosystems. My work focuses on improving the workflows between design and code—developing tooling, scalable design systems, and AI-augmented processes that enhance quality, accessibility, and consistency.

I've led high-impact initiatives at companies like Microsoft, Salesforce, Nike, eBay, Verizon, Venmo, and now Qualtrics, where I'm defining how technology, design, and automation converge to elevate product development. I care deeply about aligning internal values with external systems, and my current focus is on building intelligent, inclusive systems that empower cross-functional teams to do their best work.

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And no, it wasn’t Figma. But it’s a big reason why I keep saying no to meeting with their team. Like, can I get a kickback for this since it’s now going to be used as a differentiator? Gonna go grumble and eat breakfast
Darian Rosebrook

Darian Rosebrook

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lol, I gotta remember to keep my best ideas close to my chest. Was taking part in a pilot at work and shared how I was making their tool work for me, only to have them tit-for-tat release my workflow as a feature of their tool the next week.
Darian Rosebrook

Darian Rosebrook

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So uh, is this civil war 2?
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Darian Rosebrook

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How many zoom meetings does it take for you to finally put on pants for the day?
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Darian Rosebrook

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I don’t think I’ll ever get bored of making cool websites.
Darian Rosebrook

Darian Rosebrook

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Guess who’s moving back to the Seattle area because they got a job as a design technologist up there! 👆🏼 Uh, so I got a new job and I’m coming back to Washington finally 😅
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Darian Rosebrook

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Nooo, I wish I could have gone this year so I could meet ya
Darian Rosebrook

Darian Rosebrook

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The batman effect
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Darian Rosebrook

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Idk, the commute from my bed to my desk is still about 40 minutes…
Darian Rosebrook

Darian Rosebrook

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When your old design system team finally implements the plan you and your coworker put in place and they celebrate it like they didn’t fight it the whole time and force you out… I’m not peeved, no not at all.
Darian Rosebrook

Darian Rosebrook

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Back on the job hunt, I guess. What's new?
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Darian Rosebrook

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lol my coworker and I have now made possibly one of the coolest pipelines for design system library analytics across code and design and I’m really mad that I can’t show any of it. Data at that level will probably never be approved by corp. How do y’all get permission to share your stuff?
Darian Rosebrook

Darian Rosebrook

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lol but also probably only for 9-12 months and then it doubles
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Darian Rosebrook

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Yup, that’s what I’m doing. Wonder if it plays well with animation.
Darian Rosebrook

Darian Rosebrook

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lol what is mass consumption when the means of production sits on your shelf?
Darian Rosebrook

Darian Rosebrook

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Time to build some custom visualization graphs of all this now… Why doesn’t any charting library support react 19 yet? Do I need to do this all by hand?
Darian Rosebrook

Darian Rosebrook

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There’s so much that this empowers that I’m excited again to see what insights and opportunities we have to measure the scope of impact when changing things or viewing utilization across an organization. Like, leveraging all the tools we have for visualizing, recommending, interacting with…
Darian Rosebrook

Darian Rosebrook

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Finally built a thing I’ve been chasing for a few years now. The foundational layer to quantify a design system’s impact across the organization. Also, Figma’s analytics API sucks. Lol
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Darian Rosebrook

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Idk why, but the Figma API is hilariously restrictive I can see a team name and the org it belongs to in the UI, but if I go to use the API all I get is “user does not have access to this team” Like, what I’m trying to do requires me to jump through so many endpoints that I need my own server
Darian Rosebrook

Darian Rosebrook

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That would have been a cool name to keep. But I guess go with what people will expect? Banner seems like it would be easier to remember for what it does, but still, masthead is cooler
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Darian Rosebrook

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Almost got this design where I want it. Still have plenty of tweaks I want to make and need to figure out the animations on the blueprints page. I’ll go over and refactor a lot when I get more content in
Darian Rosebrook

Darian Rosebrook

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lol hi. Designer/dev working in design systems
Darian Rosebrook

Darian Rosebrook

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I'm more of a "medium mode" kind of person:
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Darian Rosebrook

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In the past I’ve been keyed in on A/B tests with live users, also had my own versions of my designers files where I could test the components in context. Small components are easy to do context related testing, larger like a one time passcode field need more testing
Darian Rosebrook

Darian Rosebrook

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the one time you might not mind having snakes on a plane
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Darian Rosebrook

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100% the thing that I was trying to solve there was helping fix the pipeline from design to working code and it was a problem no one but my team wanted to fix. Eventually they exited that whole team
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Darian Rosebrook

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100% The GIF I was gonna use
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Darian Rosebrook

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Darn, I was hoping they would keep the implementation details for devs.
Darian Rosebrook

Darian Rosebrook

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Same to you dude!
Darian Rosebrook

Darian Rosebrook

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I’m excited for this app to blow x out of the water. I miss all my creative designer or developer friends that I made on there. Really hoping this will be the same as that was
Darian Rosebrook

Darian Rosebrook

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Nothing says creative like using 3 font styles, and 4 different typefaces
Connie Chen (陳穎慈)

Connie Chen (陳穎慈)

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I’ve been unemployed since January 2023 and actively looking for a Senior UX/Product Designer with full-time opportunities in healthcare, biotech, or ed-tech. Appreciate it if you can share my portfolio or buy me a coffee. Thank you.💛 conniechen.design buymeacoffee.com/conniechiiiwa
Darian Rosebrook

Darian Rosebrook

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But hey, these kinds of projects are always teaching me something new about full stack development. If everyone weren’t so busy though I wouldn’t have to do all this myself
Darian Rosebrook

Darian Rosebrook

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Haha, leave it to me to make a simple Figma plugin that syncs design and GitHub and turn it into a huge CI/CD process that outputs platform specific libraries/packages. I’m never saying “it’ll be a simplified process” again. Doing continuous delivery involves a lot of developer magic wand stuff 🪄✨
Darian Rosebrook

Darian Rosebrook

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Hi I’m Darian and I’m exhausted. Gotta remember to not do everything myself all the time 😅
Darian Rosebrook

Darian Rosebrook

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I have a feeling this shirt is gonna be one of those boomer memes for millennials Alt: shirt made to look like the Marc Jacob’s shirt that says “Twitter, by Official Twitter, for Twitter by Official Twitter, in collaboration with Official Twitter for Twitter by Official Twitter” by @shiftnudge.com
Darian Rosebrook

Darian Rosebrook

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Made some really really tasty dessert yesterday. I guess you could add “star baker” to my imaginary resume. Alt tags seem borked? So this is a 9” gluten free lemon tart, 6 ramekins of crème brûlée, and gluten free madeleines. Sooo good omg 🤤