I'm Dan. UX & Product Builder. Twenty years designing enterprise products in places where a bad click costs real money: retirement, healthcare, automotive, and now the financial backbone of Google.
The job changed. Interfaces used to wait for people. Now they act on their behalf. My work is making sure they do it legibly, reversibly, and with permission. By day that's agentic systems at Google. By night it's a personal AI operating system on a Mac mini in my house. Same problem, different blast radius.
Staff UX, Core AI. Designing agent-forward experiences for the systems that pay people and the vendors that keep the lights on:
| Domain | What I'm designing for |
|---|---|
| Finance | Agents that reconcile, flag and draft, with humans holding the pen on anything that moves money |
| Payroll | High-stakes, zero-tolerance flows where "the AI was confident" is never an acceptable answer |
| Vendor Management | Onboarding, contracts and spend, turned from ticket queues into assisted workflows |
The through-line: trust is a UX surface. Show the reasoning, scope the autonomy, make undo cheap, and ask before the irreversible stuff.
A personal AI operating system on one Mac mini. Mail, calendar, media, voice and hardware, run by a local-first agent that asks before it acts. Every decision it makes lands in a ledger (ASK → SEEN → DISPATCH) so I can see what it wanted to do, not just what it did.
- Stack: OpenClaw gateway · Claude Code · Ollama (local models) · LiteLLM · Qdrant · Docker · TypeScript HUD
- Voice in, voice out. Talk to it, or don't. It runs on heartbeats either way.
- Local-first by default. Cloud models are a fallback, not a dependency, and API spend sits on the dashboard where I can't ignore it.
- MimirOS Kit: the starter kit version, so you can build your own. Extended from Jarvis OS by McKruz.
It's my lab for the exact questions I solve at work: autonomy levels, consent, memory, and what a good "needs you" alert actually looks like.
Designed, built and deployed end to end. Brand → system → code → production. No templates were harmed.
DN Creative Studio My design studio. Brand system, live generative topo, the works. Design that doesn't blend in. |
dannemirovsky.com Portfolio & case studies. Prudential's LIV, Northwell's design system, and the receipts. |
HekBot AI fitness, nutrition & solar coach. React · Vite · Supabase · Google Fit · an LLM that nags with love. |
DN Design Hub A curated archive of UX / AI artifacts and skill toolkits for builders. Data-driven, zero framework. |
Reboot Camp Coaching Client site + ebook pipeline. One HTML source builds the site, the PDF and the EPUB. |
Crescent Psychotherapy Full digital identity for a NY clinician. Calm, warm, and nothing like a stock-photo therapy site. |
DLC · 35th Anniversary Anniversary experience for a national retail real estate firm. Story-led, WordPress-ready. |
The Order of Fire Brand & design system for a men's brotherhood. Mark, type, voice and rules, in one living guide. |
Trinity Martial Arts A paper flyer reborn as a Material 3 app. One JSON file drives the web view and the printable PDF. |
Off the browser DNC Widgets · Swift · Liquid Glass macOS widgets for Mac stats, network and Claude plan usage. AlienRGB · C# · Replaced a bloated, cloud-gated vendor app with a tray utility that talks straight to the USB HID controller. Client design hubs · Private brand portals for studio clients. Ask nicely. |
| Google · Staff UX, Core AI | Agentic UX for Finance, Payroll & Vendor Management |
| Prudential · Director, UX | Shipped LIV, Prudential's first AI product, 0→1 in 12 months. 6 CX industry awards. PruXpress redesign: +15 NPS. Scaled 8 → 16 Agile teams (+45% throughput) |
| Northwell Health · Director, UX | Built the design org from 0 → 15+ designers. First design language; 37 microsites → one domain, WCAG 2.1 baseline |
| DealerTrack | Chrome vehicle configurator, an automotive-industry first |
| DN Creative · Founder | Brand, web and product studio for teams who'd rather not look like everyone else |
SAFe · Cooper Design Leadership · $4M+ annual budgets managed · Regulated industries are my comfort zone.
- Design the autonomy, not just the screen. Every agent needs a dial: suggest, draft, do-with-approval, do.
- Prototype in production materials. If it can be code, it's code. Figma for thinking, the browser for truth.
- Systems over snowflakes. Tokens, components, voice. Then go fast.
- Ship, then sand. Strong opinions, loosely held, tested with real users.
Toolkit: Figma · Claude Code · OpenClaw · Ollama · React · TypeScript · Supabase · Netlify · Swift · Adobe CC · a Mac mini that never sleeps
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