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.
- UX Innovation Award
- 2x
- at UWM, for founding work on the design system and for making it AI-friendly
- BS in Information, UX Pathway
- UMich
- where I learned to put users at the center of every decision
- MSU Designathon 2026
- Speaker
- 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
Hey Google!
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