Paige Sáez

Principal product designer based in Oakland, CA, who is passionate about mixed-methods research and has a deep foundation in human-centered design.

With extensive experience dating all the way back to 2006 😮, I bring a thoughtful, multidisciplinary approach to crafting impactful products and services.

I'm also a studio artist and bicycle mechanic. In 2007, I co-founded Makerlab, a creative studio and design-build collective, I run my own consultancy at Little Cities and I teach product design + research at California College of the Arts.

Now

Teaching user research—traditional and AI/ML methods—to future designers at California College of the Arts.

Before

Designing solar-powered solutions for home and business owners at Aurora Solar.

Over the last decade

Principal Product Designer at All Turtles.

Led design for Carrot Fertility and Surfboard, and drove research for Replika and Talk to Spot, taking each from early concept to launch with lean studies and first-edition design systems.

Lead Product Designer at Cisco DNA.

Shipped DNA Center’s natural-language command bar and Machine Reasoning dashboard, turning ML insights into plain-English guidance now relied on by 500+ enterprise network admins.

Lead User Experience Designer at Honeycomb.

As the first designer, overhauled navigation, query builder, and heat-map views so engineers could explore high-volume telemetry faster and onboard with less friction.

UX Director and Curriculum designer at Designlab.

Founded the UX Academy program—authoring curriculum, rubrics, and assessments—and scaled enrollment five-fold while mentoring 100+ early-career designers worldwide.

This isn't my full resume, as I'm rebuilding this website. For my entire work history, check out my LinkedIn.

Looking for some images?

Feel free to email me at info [at] paigesaez.com or find me on LinkedIn, and I'll send you a PDF of recent case studies.

Handmade in Figma, Framer, and Cursor, while listening to a painstakingly curated algorithm.

2025 Paige Sáez

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