Summary
Dan Leatherman is a Senior Product Designer with 15+ years of experience translating user needs into pixel-perfect interfaces and production-ready front-end components. He blends design thinking and hands-on coding (HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, Figma) to build accessible, scalable design systems that teams can maintain and evolve. His background spans agency work, startups, and teaching interaction design at Parsons, giving him a rare mix of creative craft, technical discipline, and mentorship. Comfortable speaking both design and engineering languages, he excels at turning complex problems into elegant, usable solutions and shipping features that balance aesthetics with performance. Now based in New York, he’s pursuing staff-level roles where he can influence product direction while still shipping code.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.A Art; Digital Media and Photography, B.A Art; Digital Media and Photography at Nebraska Wesleyan University
English