Staton Hysell
Sr. Product Designer - Design Systems at Shield AI
Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolStaton Hysell is a Staff Product Designer with a four-year focus on design systems, data visualization, and developer-facing UX across companies like Shield AI and Grafana Labs. He blends a visual communication background with practical design-to-code workflows, building component libraries, tokens, and Storybook/React systems that keep large engineering teams aligned. At Shield AI he’s focused on SDK documentation, AI-assisted developer tooling, and CI/ESLint governance to scale design contributions, while at Grafana he led the Saga system and clarified complex data viz experiences. Staton is known for translating research into measurable design system ROI and for creating tooling and documentation that materially reduces friction for engineers. Based in Ohio, he pairs a hands-on craft mindset with enterprise-scale system thinking rooted in a BFA in Visual Communication Design.
4 years of coding experience
Bachelor's of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) Visual Communication Design 2D and 3D Design, Bachelor's of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) Visual Communication Design 2D and 3D Design at Kent State University
Github Skills (15)
monitoring10
elasticsearch10
data-visualization10
observability10
dashboard10
prometheus10
visualization10
grafana10
influxdb10
go10
business-intelligence10
visualize10
mysql10
analytics10
composable10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
grafana/design-system
Oct 2023 - May 2024
Contributions:10 reviews, 23 PRs, 38 pushes in 6 months
grafana/grafana
Mar 2022 - Mar 2025
The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.
Contributions:28 reviews, 9 PRs, 19 pushes in 3 years
visualizeobservabilitybusiness-intelligencegrafanaprometheus
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