United Wholesale Mortgage · Jan. 2024 – Present
Dream Design System
I built 30+ of the components at the heart of UWM's first design system. 50+ projects stand on it today.
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Aleks Duni
Designer & Developer
I work on both sides of the product: the design that shapes it and the code that ships it.
2x
UWM UX Innovation Award
For founding work on design system and for making it AI-friendly
UMich
BS in Information, UX Pathway
Where I learned to put users at the center of every decision
Speaker
MSU Designathon 2026
Advising design students on UX career paths
My work
Each project walks through the problem, the process, and what came of it.
Google · Sept. 2022 – May 2023
Google Assistant for College
I led the design of a Canvas integration for Google Assistant. Testing it with students doubled their interest.
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United Wholesale Mortgage · May 2022 – Aug. 2022
Design Standards Website
The internship project that made the case for a unified design system at UWM, and became Dream two years later.
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Personal Project · May 2022 – Sept. 2022
Xbox Dashboard Redesign
I surveyed 20 gamers, ran card rankings with 10, and rebuilt the dashboard around the games instead of the ads.
Read case studyMy skills
The tools I design with, the stack I build with, and how I like to work.
Design
- Interaction Design
- User-Centered Design
- User Flows
- Information Architecture
- Wireframes
- High-Fidelity Mockups
- Prototyping
- Design Systems
- Design Tokens
- Atomic Design
- Visual UI
- Accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA)
- Figma
- Claude Design
Process
- UX Research
- Usability Testing
- System Usability Scale
- Comparative Testing
- User Interviews
- Surveys
- Card Sorting
- Affinity Mapping
- Personas
- Competitive Analysis
- Stakeholder Presentations
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Design Critiques
- Agile (Kanban)
Engineering
- React
- TypeScript
- MUI
- Storybook
- HTML
- CSS
- JavaScript
- Claude Code