I'm Dan Caryll
Obligatory random character image that I repurposed
Is this the "fold"? What is a fold, really?
I lead teams of designers and developers toward improving user experiences in marketing. Sure, marketing may not sound like the optimal place to get a good user experience (modals, popups, chatbots, shitty information architecture, business objectives, etc.). But I've spent most of my career protecting the user, making sure the experiences we're creating are what they would create for themselves. It's not always fast, but we've moved a lot of needles in the right direction.
I get it. Sometimes you just want to know a little bit about someone when you visit their site and move along. Most of my experience is on LinkedIn, so go there to find it.
Go to my LinkedInYeah? What about it? That's what I'm good at. The font I pick or the cool colors I add to my designs tend to do very little for the site user. It's also subjective. So you fill in the blanks. What would my site look like if it was for you?
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Because I didn't do all of this shit myself
Design without context I got a call on a Sunday from my bosses boss. So I knew something big was happening. It wasn’t the first time I had a call like this, but it was normally less hush hush, and revolved around something like a new product release or a partnership. But this time it […]
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Becoming a design manager I was hesitant to move into people management. I had studied for years to become a designer. I was worried I’d no longer be able to do the thing I was best at. I loved coding. I loved being in my zen space, working on a design to solve a user […]
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Design systems and enablement Sometimes being a designer means making sure others have what they need to design. That could be a designer, a developer, a strategist, among others. Every stage of the process needs design, whether its someone considering a possible future strategy or a designer creating a pixel-perfect component for their experience. For […]
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