Desiree Garcia
Product Design Director at Medium
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDesirée Garcia is a product design leader with 12+ years of hands-on and strategic experience building high-impact design organizations and shipping user-loved products across startups and scale-ups. Currently Product Design Director at Medium, she has led design teams at Webflow, Loom, Crossbeam and IBM, with a track record of taking 0-1 initiatives to market and scaling design practice during hypergrowth. She pairs a craft-first mindset with measurable business outcomes—driving revenue growth platforms, PLG activation, and enterprise capabilities—while mentoring and developing other designers. A longtime advocate for mission-driven work and underdogs, she also brings unique editorial experience from A List Apart and early contributions to AI UX at IBM, where she helped launch Watson Assistant and co-founded IBM’s AI Design Guidelines. Based in Austin, she combines psychology training with practical product design chops and occasional front-end contributions (notably UX improvements to an IBM Tone Analyzer sample app), making her comfortable bridging research, design, and engineering.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy, Clinical Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy, Clinical Psychology at The George Washington UniversityBachelor of Arts, Psychology, Computer Applications, Bachelor of Arts, Psychology, Computer Applications at University of Notre Dame
English, Spanish
Github Skills (6)
javascript10
ui-design10
ejs10
html9
css8
nodejs7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
watson-developer-cloud/tone-analyzer-nodejs
May 2016 - May 2016
Sample Node.js Application for the IBM Tone Analyzer Service
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 4 days
Contributions summary:Desiree primarily focused on front-end development tasks, modifying the user interface and presentation of the Tone Analyzer application. Their contributions include updating sentence-level and document-level descriptions, refactoring the UI to improve the layout, and making changes to the output summaries. The user also worked on updating tooltips and navigation labels, which suggests a focus on improving the user experience.
ibm-tone-analyzertonenode-jstone-analyzernodejs
cfpb/api
Oct 2013 - Jan 2015
Documentation to support upcoming data platform API and data sets
Contributions:147 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 3 months
apiapi-platformdata-setsdataminingopenscience
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