I'm Matt Dean 👋🏻 ✋🏻
a senior product design contractor

13 years and counting!

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Flexible

Providing senior coverage during hiring gaps, reorgs and shifting priorities

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Speedy

Turning defined needs into shippable product with minimal ramp-up or oversight

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Full-stack

Helping teams with limited resources drive product direction, UX and delivery

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What I do

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Collab with Product, Design & Engineering
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Understand problems and goals
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Create consumer, enterprise & internal products
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Design quality solutions across all platforms
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Build design systems
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Review iteratively to fine tune
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Finalize and prep for development
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Communicate at every step

How I work

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Fully remote
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Part-time engagements
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Monthly retainer fee structure

He’s fast. Thorough. Thoughtful. Creative. And my teams have always loved working with him.

Bill Wetherell
VP, Product Design + Research @ DocuSign

Impeccable taste, autonomous, empathetic, curious, and optimistic but without the ego.

Austin Petito
Visual Design Lead @ Google

Matt demonstrated a strong understanding of our brand and our users, resulting in designs that significantly improved the user experience.

Kevin Daniels
Manager of Digital Operations @ Sling

Besides being incredibly knowledgeable in his craft, he's responsive, friendly, and articulate.

Ry Jones
Art Director of Digital Marketing @ Sling/DISH/Boost Mobile

Not only does he interact well with his product and engineering partners; he is able to suss out the "why" behind specific asks from stakeholders.

Andrew Brinkman
VP, Product Management @ Buildertrend

His ability to make sense of complex product flows and transform them into something simple and beautiful is quite impressive!

Adriano Blanaru
Senior Product Manager @ Hightail
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