Hi, I'm
Grace Dueñas
Hi, I'm
Grace Dueñas
Hi, I'm
Grace Dueñas
I don't just design something beautiful. I make sure it actually works.
I don't just design something beautiful. I make sure it actually works.
I'm a product designer with 10+ years of experience across enterprise, startups, and small businesses. I've shipped platforms at Hertz and SailPoint, built a defense tech product from the ground up, and fixed the operational problems that don't show up in any brief. Complex, cross-functional, deeply embedded. That's where I do my best work.
I'm a product designer with 10+ years of experience across enterprise, startups, and small businesses. I've shipped platforms at Hertz and SailPoint, built a defense tech product from the ground up, and fixed the operational problems that don't show up in any brief. Complex, cross-functional, deeply embedded. That's where I do my best work.
My Work
My Background
01
September 2025 - Now
Ignite Studios
Consulting Designer & Technical Strategist
Embedded consulting through Ignite Studios across small business, nonprofit, and real estate development clients. Work spans technical infrastructure, systems integration, and product design. Two engagements are in stealth.
KCF Law: domain migration, DNS configuration, email infrastructure recovery, site launch
Puzzles Inclusive Ed: billing system overhaul, live API integration, site rebuild, client communications
Confidential health and wellness site, launched November 2025 (NDA)
Confidential real estate development client, ongoing (stealth)
June 2025 - Now
HPL / Daikin North America
Sole Designer (Freelance)
Full site redesign for Daikin North America, embedded as the only designer on the HPL team. Rebuilt information architecture and visual language to speak clearly to a regulatory and policy audience in the U.S. market.
Full site redesign from audit to delivery
Information architecture for regulatory and policymaker audiences
Visual design, design QA, and client presentations
02
03
april 2023 - august 2024
DEFCON AI
Director of Product (Founding Designer)
Built the product design function from scratch at a defense tech startup developing contested logistics planning tools for the DoD. Took the product from zero to a funded 1.0 while building the team, design system, and brand alongside it.
0→1 product design across a $40M+ funded platform
Built design team and design system from the ground up
Created brand identity and visual language
march 2020 - december 2022
SailPoint Technologies
Senior Product Designer
Led design across two major product areas: a complete redesign of the connector platform (200+ integrations, ExtJS to Angular migration) and a ground-up rebuild of the Armada design system in Figma.
Connector platform redesign across 200+ integrations
Design system rebuild and Figma migration
Cross-functional collaboration across product and engineering
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05
may 2019 – February 2020
Resideo Technologies
Product Designer
Designed the unified Resideo Home consumer mobile platform, consolidating 27+ legacy apps into a single experience. The project was cancelled due to COVID.
Consumer mobile platform design (27+ legacy apps unified)
Interaction patterns, wireframes, and UI across iOS and Android
June 2016 – May 2019
Hertz Corporation
UX/UI Designer
Designed across multiple platforms and innovation projects, including Hertz Go (connected mobility/frictionless rental), an Alexa voice skill (60+ utterance sets, 60K+ scenarios), and multi-platform rebrands.
Hertz Go connected mobility platform
Alexa skill; voice UI across 60+ utterance sets
Multi-platform redesigns and digital transformations
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