Darian Grant

Design Director

Delivering UX for SaaS products, console games, mobile games and apps for over 16 years.

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About me

Over 16 years of experience accelerating UX departments and maturity while delivering data-driven products to your business and users.

Senior UX Manager
UX Designer II
UX Designer
Lead UX Designer
Senior UX Designer
Freelance
Senior UX Manager
UX Consultant
Senior UX Manager
UX Designer II
UX Designer
Lead UX Designer
Senior UX Designer
Freelance
Senior UX Manager
UX Consultant

Selected work

Domain Overview

Domain Overview

How consolidating our “Aha!” moments into one screen became our most popular page, plus the story of a dramatic redesign that kicked off a larger company initiative.

Moz 2.0

Moz 2.0

How a weekend redesign helped me get company-wide commitment to rebuild Moz Pro's UI/UX, what happened when it turned out to be too slow, and how we fixed that too.

My AI Finance Consolidator

My AI Finance Consolidator

How I used Claude as my design partner and lead developer to build an app that cut my monthly 4-hour bookkeeping task down to 30 minutes.

Don't Redesign STAT!

Don't Redesign STAT!

Hired to redesign the flagship product, I then convinced the company NOT to redesign it for 7 years, and instead, focus on more impactful releases to our clients.

Redesign STAT!

Redesign STAT!

How I convinced the company to finally bring our flagship product out of the stone ages to decrease cancellations, increase conversions, and increase user satisfaction.

STAT 2’s Design Sprints

STAT 2’s Design Sprints

How we modernized STAT incrementally through a repeatable design sprint process that kept UX ahead of Dev without sacrificing research, validation, or confidence in our decisions.

ePACT's New CICO Flow

ePACT's New CICO Flow

How I updated ePACT's Check-in/out flow to cut 300 interactions down to 6.

Keyword Ins/Outs

Keyword Ins/Outs

How I refined an MVP to save months of work for the devs, 9 hours of CS time a week, and increased the unique value of our product... all without a fancy UI.

The Tags Summary Tab

The Tags Summary Tab

A quick project with an extremely lean design process that decreased our Churn rate by 41%.

Accessible Bar Charts

Accessible Bar Charts

Reinvented how Bar charts can meet accessibility standards without sacrificing aesthetics.

Arbutus Capital

Arbutus Capital

How I rage-redesigned, SEO’ed, and rebuilt Arbutus Capital’s website, leading to a 24x increase in organic business enquiries.

“Do really good work. Have fun. In that order.”
Darian Grant (That's me!)UX Director & Product Designer

What I can help you with

AI-driven workflows

Research synthesisPrototyping with AIFaster delivery

Stakeholder & strategic alignment

Cross-team alignmentRoadmap prioritisationExecutive buy-in

UX leadership & org scaling

Team growthMentorshipDesign org scalingHands-on leadership

Complex product design

Complex problem solvingOutcome-focused UXHands-on design

Design systems & accessibility

Design system managementAccessible designWCAG AA

Research & insight

Research & insightAI-driven workflowsData-driven decisions

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Darian Grant

Hello world 👋

Over 16 years of experience accelerating UX departments and maturity while delivering data-driven products to your business and users.

I've been the manager who does IC work and the IC who thinks like a manager. At Moz I ran the setup and research for a full product redesign, led the design, then handed it off cleanly and moved to STAT. At ePACT I took a check-in flow from 300 interactions down to 6.

Before all of that: Electronic Arts, A Thinking Ape, Alida and my own freelance studio, Nobex Designs. Console games, mobile games, research platforms, SEO tools and emergency response software. Different industries, the same job underneath.

The through line is making dense, complicated products feel obvious, and leaving the team better than I found it.

Darian GrantRunning a workshopAn affinity wall of research notes

Doing great work since 2009

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Open to Design leadership roles

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