Miguel Fernando Navarro

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Staff Product Designer, Redfern Financial - accessibility · component libraries · design systems

Redfern Financial
San Francisco, CA · PT (UTC-8)
10+ years experience
Columbia University
English
Advising
Messaging unavailable

Overview

Based in San Francisco. I work on design systems at Redfern Financial. Cut support tickets about design systems by 45% with clearer copy and states. I play football every Sunday.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Advice on design systems
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Working sessions on design systems
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  • Agency or outsourcing pitches
  • Unpaid work or spec projects
Skills
B2BtokensFigmadesign systemsaccessibilitycomponent libraries
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Office hours for early-stage teams: design systems and B2B

Topics
design systems, component libraries, design systems
Format
Formal advisor role
Terms
Open to discuss
Capacity
One advisory role at a time
Best for
First-time founders

10 years of design systems. One call a month or async reviews.

San Francisco, CAcomponent librariesdesign systemstokens
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Experience

  1. Staff Product Designer
    Nov 2024 - Present
    Redfern Financial · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Cut support tickets about design systems by 43% with clearer copy and states.
    • Built a component library 21 engineers ship with every day.
  2. UX Researcher
    May 2021 - Nov 2024
    Reddit · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Cut support tickets about design systems by 48% with clearer copy and states.
    • Shipped the design systems redesign that lifted task completion 15%.
  3. UX Researcher
    Nov 2018 - May 2021
    HP · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Built a component library 78 engineers ship with every day.
  4. Product Designer
    Oct 2016 - Nov 2018
    Shopify · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Built a component library 48 engineers ship with every day.

Projects

Design systems benchmark
2025

Reproducible benchmarks comparing Figma and design systems on real workloads.

Write-up: design systems in practice
2024

A long-form guide to design systems for people starting out.

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Education

  1. Columbia University
    BA, Psychology
    2011 - 2015

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