Patrick Leahy

Product & Design Systems Designer

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I build design systems from scratch and design complex enterprise products — most recently at VMware and Workday. Lately I've been using AI to build the tools I actually use: a task manager and an accessibility scanner that catches issues like missing ARIA labels and broken focus order.

I run projects end to end — stakeholders, engineers, and the messy middle — and I don't shy away from technical or ambiguous domains.

  • Senior Designer, Platform — Adobe
  • Design Systems Designer — FirstPerson
  • Staff Designer, Design Systems — VMware
  • Principal Product Designer — Workday

Hexagon · Salesforce · Docker · Carfax · VMware · Workday

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Design Systems

Clarity Design System

Unified two libraries into one, reverse-engineered a token system, drove org-wide adoption at VMware.

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AI Tools

Accessibility Minesweeper

A scan agent that walks a live flow, runs axe-core on every step, and chains Claude Code skills to file WCAG bugs before QA does.

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Design Systems

Hexagon

Design systems work for Hexagon's platform.

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Product Design

Expenses Back Office

Enterprise finance tooling for surfacing and resolving expense-report anomalies.

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Product Design · Vision

Period End Close Vision

A vision for streamlining a notoriously painful finance workflow at Workday.

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Design Systems

Adaptive Content Layout

A flexible form solution designed to shift and reflow across contexts.

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