Yesenia Perez-cruz
Design Systems Consultant at Expressive Design Systems
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYesenia Perez-cruz is a design systems leader and consultant with a decade-plus of experience shaping large-scale product foundations at Shopify and Vox Media. She led Polaris and Shopify’s admin UX, transforming component libraries into strategic, expressive systems that balance consistency with flexibility for complex workflows. Now author of Expressive Design Systems, she helps teams modernize for the AI era—introducing semantic tokens, composable components, and intent-aware interfaces to unlock product differentiation. Known for pragmatic workshops and short sprints, she pairs hands-on system strategy with cross-disciplinary coaching to accelerate clarity and adoption. Based in Philadelphia, she brings studio roots in visual design and a strong track record of shipping platform-level solutions that scale across web and mobile.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BS Graphic Design, BS Graphic Design at Drexel University
Github Skills (7)
figma-plugin10
typescript10
design-tokens10
component-library10
vscode-extension10
shopify10
react10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
yesenia-perezcruz/yesenia-perezcruz.github.io
Sep 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes in 12 days
yesenia-perezcruz/perfimages
Sep 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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