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?
A really cool picture goes here. Just imagine how cool it is.
Because I didn't do all of this shit myself
I’m Dan, a Red Hatter I built this portfolio site to make sure I was spending enough time on me. When you’re a design leader, it’s often hard to invest time in yourself. My free time often goes to scheduling that 1:1 that I haven’t had a chance to do yet, or spending 15 minutes […]
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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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Cross-team sharing I helped to start a concept of sharing across our large (at the time) 30 person or so design & development team (it’s now grown to close to 60). As our team evolved, it was becoming more and more difficult to stay connected. What we found useful in smaller sessions were leaders of […]
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