My name is Daniel Fosco, and I'm a designer & developer.
I make systems that enable people to work, build, and collaborate online.
I currently work as Senior Product Designer at Miro, building a developer platform for the whiteboard & collaboration app loved by 50+ million users.
Part portfolio, part hand-crafted whiteboard, full work in progress.
To learn more about current projects and get in touch, hit the links below.
Working in the Miro Developer Platform, I design tools and interfaces that enable third-party developers to build apps connected to Miro.
It's a challenging role, where I combine UX and engineering skills to design (and code) for a variety of surfaces: web UIs, frontend libraries, code editors, and more.
More than just building tools, however, my job is to drive the growth of the platform and help developers build a business model on top of Miro.
Working with the GitLab Release team, I enabled developers to deploy their code to any production environment and safely make new software available to their users.
Starting from a small set of improvements, the scope grew across multiple iterations into a complete redesign of the user experience, informed by a strategy defined in collaboration with product leadership (and plenty of user research).
This project raised the bar for the Release product, allowing the team to add and improve capabilities in a scalable way: deployment approvals, code freezes, observability integration, and more.
Working in the Core Infrastructure group, my team was responsible for building developer tools to increase velocity & productivity of the Booking engineering team.
To increase the speed and scale of our efforts, we extended the existing design system and created BUI Infra Components, a library of React components and documentation to enable any developer to easily build an internal tool.
This project resulted in better consistency and usability for Booking internal tools, with infrastructure teams independently creating applications and iterating features using the components.
Onboarding documentation and example application for the library
When I joined Miro, the team already had Mirotone, an external design system in place for third-party app developers. One long-standing request remained open, however: a Figma library to help them design their apps.
Based on our internal design system, I designed additional components and documented the library to ensure ease-of-use for our developer audience.
The library also includes flows and templates with best practices, and is seamlessly embedded in the design system documentation.
After publishing on the Figma Community, more than 700 developers have started projects using the Mirotone UI Components library.
VTEX is an enterprise commerce platform for retailers to sell products online and across distribution channels. Their documentation portal provides an easy way for retailers and developers to understand and integrate with the platform.
I was product designer and project lead for a brand new platform: working from the initial project pitch and proof of concept through designing and building the product, and scaling the team.
The work on this project kickstarted the knowledge team and VTEX education department, today responsible for all the documentation and educational content of the company.
Information architecture and content modelling to enable CMS migration
Working in code to sweat the details and increase design quality
On my first project at Booking, I worked to launch the first unified rewards experience for travellers. The goal was to better communicate status to customers, streamline reward payouts and reduce customer support tickets.
The project was built across all platforms: web, mobile, iOS, Android, emails and customer-service interfaces. I worked with developers across the entire process: from API modelling to front-end development.
Coordinating the release through experimentation was a challenge since we were releasing a large iteration at once, but it had an immediate positive impact on the team's key metrics.
Design workshops and journey mapping facilited with the team
