Paul Idrobo

Data workspace

Coalesce

Product design, UI refresh, landing page

Data transformation platform, thousands of enterprise developers. October 2025 to August 2026.

Situation

I joined in-house as senior product designer in the product team. Transform, the core product, had several squads, graph view, infrastructure, setup, and no designer. I was the one, moving between squads and turning each PM’s problem into a fast, small UX fix.

Ask

Two months in, they asked for more: rethink the whole UI, make it feel as current as Snowflake, without breaking the habits of people who use it all day.

Turn

Colour, iconography, layout, all inside Ant Design, used properly this time. Figma prototypes, several rounds with the business engineers who talk to customers, approval from the CTPO, then the all-hands.

Result

A squad built it and it was live in weeks, with key customers testing the dev build as we went.

In January 2026 I went freelance. Coalesce kept me on until August.

Role
Senior product designer (in-house Oct 2025 – Jan 2026, then freelance to Aug 2026)
Dates
October 2025 – August 2026
Reported to
Claire Paoletti, then Head of Design at Coalesce
Shipped
Transform UI refresh, in production; landing page redesign in React
Stack
Figma · Prototyping