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Dan Staton

Senior Experience Design Manager

I lead with heart and build high-performing design teams that deliver fast, high-quality experiences. We integrate AI to amplify efficiency and creativity. Known for:​

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  • Fostering collaborative, trusting cultures that drive retention & growth

  • Coaching designers through personalized monthly goals

  • Continuously improving our design process to boost team efficiency & speed

  • Designing data-informed, accessible solutions that meet user & business needs

  • Building scalable design systems that enhance consistency and velocity

  • Orchestrating cross-functional strategy & collaboration with partners

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Design Leadership: Managing teams, processes, and people

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How I Coach Designers to Meet Their Career Goals

I managed 20 designers at CVS and coached them to meet their career goals

2021 - Present

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How I Established a New Design Team & Culture

After a re-org at CVS, I set up working agreements and established a trusting culture

2023

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Improving Design Process & Product Collaboration

How I enhanced our design process to reduce design delivery time by 2 weeks

2023

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Health Experience Vision for CVS Patients

Facilitated vision workshops to redefine how patients manage and monitor health

2024

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CVS Health
Virtual Care

Managed a team of 11 members to design and launch virtual care to 1M+ patients

2022

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Design Student Co-op Management

2021

Supervised and supported a design student through project management and professional development

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Design Systems: My Process for Creating and Sharing Patterns

I created a process for cross-functional product teams to create and share patterns

2021

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Wayfair Partner Home Design Vision

Led workshops for 250+ team members to define new platform design principles and redesign 180 products

2020

User Experience Design: Designing products, services, and systems

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CVS Notifications: Email, SMS, Push

We created a design system to unify designs & content for 200+ health notifications to 23 user-tested templates

2023 - Present

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Apple Watch app for CVS Health

In 24 hours, I partnered with Product and Engineers to design, develop, and release "Upcoming Appointments"

2025

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CVS Pharmacy
Smoking Cessation

Met a tough deadline as the UX lead of a small team by strategizing and designing a new service's site together

2021

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Wayfair Enterprise Design System

Managed and evolved design system components and usage guidelines

2020

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Wayfair Asset Management Tool

Designed a new product that allows digital stylists to search for all Wayfair media

2018 - 2019

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3D Model QA Tool

Redesigned a tool for reviewing 3D models for quality assurance based on user interviews

2018

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TeachersConnect App

Designed a Q&A and networking app for teachers through usability testing at a small start-up

2017

Dan Staton's Design Portfolio. Product Designer. Design Manager. User Experience Design. UX Design. UX Designer. UX Design Manager.

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