DSF product & engineering excellence
Context
Lead Product Designer · 2023–2025
Services: UX/accessibility · Engineering collaboration · Design systems · Material 3 migration · Component design
- Co-led this workstream with a front-end engineering partner, establishing regular collaboration channels to identify pain points, track improvements, and maintain momentum
- Designed unified filter components and led the role filter bar migration to improve consistency and predictability across the product
- Created detailed design specifications shared broadly for cross-functional feedback, ensuring alignment before implementation
My contributions
Accessibility & compliance
Led accessibility reviews against Google's accessibility requirements, driving the product to full compliance and ensuring usability for all users, including those relying on assistive technologies.
Design systems
Led the migration from Material 2 to Material 3, redesigning components and interaction patterns to align with current design standards and reduce technical debt.
UX improvements
Identified, logged, and prioritized UX improvements centrally to maintain cross-team visibility — from usability fixes to component-level refinements.
Engineering partnership
Partnered with the engineering lead to identify issues, collaborate on solutions, and iterate on fixes in real time as builds were happening.
Summary of work
Throughout our time working on the DSF product, myself and Alexandra Sheredy (the front end engineer who I partner with most often), have identified numerous areas of improvement that support our accessibility, usability, compliance, and engineering excellence goals. We have introduced a work stream where we introduce ongoing efforts to improve the user experience, ensure Google Accessibility Requirements (GAR) compliance, and streamline front-end code.
DSF is a critical internal data security platform used by Googlers, and maintaining its usability, accessibility, and technical health is paramount for user productivity and satisfaction. This work is a collaborative effort between UX and the FE engineering team, directly supporting Core4 and CorpEng's OKRs.
Internal tools — NDA protected
The full case studies are available on request.
Because this work was on internal Google tools, I can't post screenshots publicly. The linked doc walks through the full problem space, process, and outcomes for all three DSF projects.