Bullhorn
Recruiting · Design system
Three months to update how Bullhorn looked. Its two busiest screens stood on hundreds of undocumented components, so I built the token system and Figma library they were missing.
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Staff / Principal Product Designer
I design complex products and the systems that make them work.
I bring product, design, and engineering into alignment, turning ambiguity and complexity into clear decisions, scalable systems, and products that actually ship.
20+
Years in product design
12%
Abandonment reduction, Terafina
3
Design systems built from zero
End-to-end
Design → system → code
01 — What I solve
I bring structure to complexity.
The hardest product problems rarely start with a blank canvas. They start with competing priorities, unclear ownership, inherited systems, technical constraints, and teams pulling in different directions.
I bring those pieces into focus. I help teams understand what actually matters, make the tradeoffs explicit, and turn complexity into decisions and systems that hold up beyond the design file.
I work across product, design, and engineering as one delivery system, not three separate disciplines. That means thinking about the experience, the patterns underneath it, and how the thing actually gets built, shipped, and maintained.
The goal isn't to make complexity look simpler, it's to make it workable.
02 — Selected work
07 case studies
Banking, hiring, housing and teaching. Seven products, and the system under each one.
Designing with AI
AI workflow · Design system
Claude writes the code and I make every design decision. That's how I built a design system for web, iOS and Android, and the contractor app that runs on it.
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Terafina
Fintech · Design system
The product worked. People just didn't trust it enough to finish. I rebuilt the presentation layer from atomic components up, cutting abandonment by 12%.
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Union Home Mortgage
Internal tooling · Design system
The first design system for a team of backend engineers that never had one, built with no design partner in the room.
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Proof
Digital identity
Sensitive information needs more than security, it needs clarity. An MVP for secure, deliberate sharing.
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Rümi
Product strategy
Making homeownership feel manageable, without pretending it's simple.
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McGraw Hill Education
Edtech · IA
The content was there. Finding it fast was the problem. I restructured navigation for two very different audiences.
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03 — Contact
Have a project in mind?
Let's talk.
- mark@hobbs.design
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- Resume, web version
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