Bethesda Mobile Companion
An example prototype that showcases player activity, game stats, friends, and companion flows for a mobile gaming experience.
I'm a lead product designer with experience in crafting experiences, building design systems and using AI to accelerate my work.
Recent case studies
Design Showcase
Prototypes & Concepts
A mix of prototype videos, design system artifacts, product screens, and concept explorations from across mobile, desktop, and responsive product work.
Prescription Discount & Shopping App
An example prototype that demonstrates prescription search, coupon access, shopping moments, and a simple checkout flow.
Eclipse Developer Platform
A desktop web prototype focused on developer documentation, service discovery, and operational workflows for teams moving quickly through complex APIs.
Concept Examples
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Case Studies
Selected work showing the range: design systems, gaming platforms, CRM tools, and credit marketplace product flows.
West MonroeWemo Design System
Created a comprehensive design system in Figma aimed at enhancing efficiency, increasing adoption, and ensuring consistency across various internal tools at West Monroe.
ExperianCredit Card Marketplace
A redesign of Experian's credit card marketplace that would increase conversion and enhance user's confidence in prior to applying.
BethesdaGame Launcher Platform
A lean design approach to redesigning a PC native game launcher in beta, into a best-practice gaming platform that would enable scalability and a highly improved user experience.
PriceSpiderCommerce Tracking Platform
An innovative product design that empowers clients to efficiently manage, track, and analyze their daily commerce purchases using the Where-to-Buy integration.
About me
Design Skills
Human Centered Design
Figma Enthusiast
Design Systems
UX Writing
Visual Design
Interaction Design
Information Architecture
Prototyping
User Research & Testing
Leadership Skills
Design Ops
Design Strategy
Feasibility
Mentoring & Coaching
Engineering Alignment
Agile Methodology
Backlog Creation
Stakeholder Collaboration
I'm Darren Beason and here's a little bit about myself.
Principal Product Designer
I translate complex product challenges into experiences people can understand and use with confidence.
I turn complex workflows, research, and stakeholder input into clear product direction that people can use and teams can confidently build.
I also help teams do their best work through shared systems, clear decisions, thoughtful collaboration, and strong relationships.
Achievements that keep me loving design
I create engaging, beautiful product experiences that users want to return to—and that have earned recognition for the results they deliver.
- Led a credit marketplace redesign for Experian that increased conversions by 10% within its first year.
- Designed a React Native mobile app for Vertafore that lets small insurance brokers manage corporate customer policies, helping turn the platform into three industry awards.
- Designed a 0→1 native mobile app for Monarch Landscaping to automate timekeeping and reduce 100k+ sheets of paper per week.
My design strategy approach
I use evidence and familiar patterns to make new products easier to adopt from the start.
- Use research, behavioral signals, analytics, and engineering input to find friction and the moments that matter most.
- Apply familiar patterns where they reduce uncertainty, frustration, and the effort required to learn something new.
- Lead design from discovery to release, aligning product, engineering, adoption, business goals, and scale.
My product strategy approach
I help teams identify the opportunities worth pursuing and shape the path to a viable solution.
- Find opportunities in existing workflows, ways to address user needs, and capabilities that can improve adoption, retention, efficiency, or revenue.
- Work with product partners to define the problem, the audience, the success measure, and what makes the work worth prioritizing.
- Bring engineering in early to account for data, calculations, aggregation, integrations, permissions, and performance.
Managing projects from design to engineering
I create structure for teams so important details are clear before a sprint begins.
- Drive, write, prioritize, or partner on epics and stories that frame the user goal, functional need, content, and success criteria.
- Use Agile planning and Fibonacci sizing to surface uncertainty, dependencies, and oversized work early.
- Set up handoff with linked source files, story kickoffs, active engineering collaboration, and design QA during pull-request review.
My approach to leading design projects
I support designers with the guidance, systems, and space to make better product decisions.
- Workshop approaches, map user flows, review concepts, and help teams decide when to use an established pattern or create a new one.
- Mentor designers through craft, systems thinking, content, interaction, and the judgment behind a strong product decision.
- Strengthen teams through design-system updates, component governance, story grooming, thoughtful assignment, and constructive critique.
