{"$schema":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jsonresume/resume-schema/v1.0.0/schema.json","basics":{"name":"Dave Navarro McDonald","label":"Senior Product Designer","email":"david.navarro.mcdonald@gmail.com","url":"https://thedavicito.design","summary":"Dave Navarro McDonald is a Senior Product Designer in Portland with a psychology degree and a research habit. He has designed for B2B SaaS, consumer apps used by millions, and enterprise tools, most recently building AI powered features and the working prototypes that make them arguable.","location":{"city":"Portland","region":"Oregon","countryCode":"US"},"profiles":[{"network":"LinkedIn","username":"dnmcdonald","url":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/dnmcdonald"},{"network":"GitHub","username":"mcdonaldd","url":"https://github.com/mcdonaldd"}]},"work":[{"name":"Act-On Software","position":"Senior Product Designer","url":"https://act-on.com","location":"Portland, OR","startDate":"2025-01","highlights":["Designed Act-On's first customer-facing generative AI feature, the AI Subject Line Optimizer, in four weeks. Drove a curiosity-based messaging framework over outcome-promise framing, and set a minimum data threshold guardrail of ten qualifying sends to prevent low-confidence outputs.","Led AI design for the InSite multi-agent LLM system: state models, LLM interaction patterns, authentication UI for pages behind login walls, and reporting with a Sankey flow visualization of the engagement funnel.","Led research initiatives presented to executive leadership that directly influenced product roadmap and go-to-market strategy.","Established design standards for AI-specific components and LLM interaction workflows that became the team's reference patterns for later AI work."]},{"name":"Sparta Science","position":"Senior Product Designer","location":"Portland, OR","startDate":"2022-10","endDate":"2024-05","highlights":["Designed analytics platform interfaces for more than 20,000 users across a force plate system and a kiosk app. Field research with end users turned usability friction into a cohort analysis feature that surfaced individual performance alongside group-level trends.","Built a Figma design system spanning three products (web dashboard, iPad kiosk app, data visualization components), establishing consistency and reducing design-to-engineering handoff time.","Designed and shipped an iPad kiosk app for real-time athlete movement assessment, plus a dashboard for coaches and sports organizations to review performance data.","Facilitated UX workshops with product, engineering, and research to align on user goals across a growing platform."]},{"name":"TripIt (SAP Concur)","position":"Senior Product Designer","url":"https://www.tripit.com","location":"Portland, OR","startDate":"2022-03","endDate":"2022-10","highlights":["Led end-to-end design across iOS, Android, web, and Apple Watch for more than 14 million users, establishing consistency patterns across four platforms.","Led and audited the effort to make TripIt's apps fully accessible, raising accessibility compliance by 40 percent.","Partnered with engineering to ensure the accessibility improvements shipped intact across every platform."]},{"name":"TripIt (SAP Concur)","position":"Product Designer","url":"https://www.tripit.com","location":"Portland, OR","startDate":"2013","endDate":"2022-03","highlights":["Designed and optimized mobile user flows for travel notifications and itineraries for more than 14 million users globally.","Ran A/B and usability testing to validate design decisions and increase engagement.","Created and maintained visual style guides for web and mobile across three platforms.","Synthesized monthly support cases into insights that fed design decisions."]},{"name":"Apple","position":"Genius Bar Technician","url":"https://www.apple.com","location":"San Francisco, CA","startDate":"2008","endDate":"2013"}],"education":[{"institution":"San Francisco State University","area":"Psychology","studyType":"BA"}],"skills":[{"name":"Research","keywords":["User research","User interviews","Moderated usability testing","Survey design","Research synthesis","Continuous discovery"]},{"name":"Design","keywords":["Product design","Interaction design","Information architecture","Prototyping","Accessibility","WCAG","Universal design","Data visualization","Generative AI product design","LLM interaction patterns"]},{"name":"Design Systems","keywords":["Design systems","Component architecture","Design tokens","Documentation"]},{"name":"Collaboration","keywords":["Cross-functional collaboration","Stakeholder alignment","Design critique","Mentorship","Workshop facilitation"]},{"name":"Tools","keywords":["Figma","Maze","Claude","ChatGPT"]}],"meta":{"canonical":"https://thedavicito.design/resume.json","version":"1.0.0","lastModified":"2026-09-21"}}