Director of Product Design at Censys
Daniel Allen
Product Design Leader · Design Systems · Front-End Engineering
Product design leader with a decade as a full-stack engineer behind me. I lead design teams on complex, data-heavy products. I design and build in one loop, so engineering gets a working prototype instead of a static mockup. I am drawn to hard problems, real ownership, and direct impact on the work.
- Full-stack engineer
- 10+ years
- Designer
- 11+ years
- Leading teams
- 8+ years
- Still a hands-on builder
- Every day
Work
Selected work
Approach
How I work
Design and build in one loop
I build working prototypes instead of static mockups. At Censys an idea starts in Lovable. Claude Design and Claude Code then build it against the design system. What comes out is close to production-ready front-end code.
Design systems as leverage
Six systems at six companies. They run from Citrus at Paylocity to 80 production components at DNSFilter. A system is how a four-person team covers a whole platform.
Facts before opinions
I built a UX scorecard that grades 24 red routes on task success, time on task and error rate. I built a discovery agent that turns research, tickets and usage data into problem briefs. Discovery starts from evidence.
Off the clock
The person behind the work
Everything above is the work. This is who I am when I am not doing it.
Contact
Get in touch
Email is the fastest way to reach me.