ABOUT
Hey there, I'm Garron
I help designers land their dream job and grow in their Super IC career.
I’m passionate about career growth and The Super IC design career path.
Most designers feel the need to move into management in order to progress in their career.
This transition creates job dissatisfaction and burnout for designers and lost productivity and lower retention for companies.
I’m on a mission to evangelize the rise of the Super IC. I envision a world where every product designer can grow in their career without needing to switch to management.
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Garron Engstrom 2025 • Follow me on LinkedIn
PORTFOLIO
I’ve been lucky to work on some really cool stuff
2014 • Intuit Turbotax
Designed a “Tax Timeline” that reduced support opex by $1M and increased revenue by $600K annually.
People have year-round tax needs but the product was only designed to support tax season from February to April. From a business standpoint we needed to support all user needs while not hurting conversion during tax season.
2015 • Intuit Turbotax
Designed “ExplainWhy” a feature that explains in personalized plain-English what impacts your tax refund.
I left Intuit before this launched so I don’t have business impact but the feature is still around over a decade later so it must have been net-positive for retention and conversion.
2019 • Facebook
Redesigned and relaunched AMBER Alerts on Facebook saving the feature from deprecation.
Every year half a million children go missing in the US alone. By 2019 the AMBER Alerts feature on Facebook was sitting on old infra with no team supporting it and was on the chopping block. I redesigned the feature, focusing on the child’s image, and recruited a team to rebuild it. I then went on to pitch the idea to Instagram who launched it 3 years later.
2020 • Facebook
Launched the Covid-19 Information Center on Facebook
In February 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. People needed information about how to stay healthy and slow the spread. Within a month we launched this resource.
Another month later and it was live to 98% of the worlds population and showed stat-sig increases in awareness of social distancing and other prevention measures.
2020 • Facebook
Launched Community Help, a place where people can request or offer help to their neighbors, donate to fundraisers for relief efforts, donate blood, and more.
As COVID-19 spread and people sheltered in place, access to certain goods and services became limited, leaving vulnerable populations across the globe at risk. Before deprecating it, the product launched to 143 countries and saw 100M+ requests and offers of help. It was the centerpiece of the company’s first-ever television ad.
RESOURCES
In my spare time I publish free resources to support the design community
Check them out at UX Career Guides
Garron Engstrom
About
Resources
Portfolio
Newsletter
Community
ABOUT
Hey there, I'm Garron
I help designers land their dream job and grow in their Super IC career.
I’m passionate about career growth and The Super IC design career path.
Most designers feel the need to move into management in order to progress in their career.
This transition creates job dissatisfaction and burnout for designers and lost productivity and lower retention for companies.
I’m on a mission to evangelize the rise of the Super IC. I envision a world where every product designer can grow in their career without needing to switch to management.
Subscribe to my newsletter
Garron Engstrom 2025 • Follow me on LinkedIn
PORTFOLIO
I’ve been lucky to work on some really cool stuff
2020 • Facebook
Launched the Covid-19 Information Center on Facebook
In February 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. People needed information about how to stay healthy and slow the spread. Within a month we launched this resource.
Another month later and it was live to 98% of the worlds population and showed stat-sig increases in awareness of social distancing and other prevention measures.
2019 • Facebook
Redesigned and relaunched AMBER Alerts on Facebook saving the feature from deprecation.
Every year half a million children go missing in the US alone. By 2019 the AMBER Alerts feature on Facebook was sitting on old infra with no team supporting it and was on the chopping block. I redesigned the feature, focusing on the child’s image, and recruited a team to rebuild it. I then went on to pitch the idea to Instagram who launched it 3 years later.
2015 • Intuit Turbotax
Designed “ExplainWhy” a feature that explains in personalized plain-English what impacts your tax refund.
I left Intuit before this launched so I don’t have business impact but the feature is still around over a decade later so it must have been net-positive for retention and conversion.
2014 • Intuit Turbotax
Designed a “Tax Timeline” that reduced support opex by $1M and increased revenue by $600K annually.
People have year-round tax needs but the product was only designed to support tax season from February to April. From a business standpoint we needed to support all user needs while not hurting conversion during tax season.
2020 • Facebook
Launched Community Help, a place where people can request or offer help to their neighbors, donate to fundraisers for relief efforts, donate blood, and more.
As COVID-19 spread and people sheltered in place, access to certain goods and services became limited, leaving vulnerable populations across the globe at risk. Before deprecating it, the product launched to 143 countries and saw 100M+ requests and offers of help. It was the centerpiece of the company’s first-ever television ad.
RESOURCES
In my spare time I publish free resources to support the design community
Check them out at UX Career Guides
Garron Engstrom
About
Resources
Portfolio
Newsletter
Community
ABOUT
Hey there, I'm Garron
I help designers land their dream job and grow in their Super IC career.
I’m passionate about career growth and The Super IC design career path.
Most designers feel the need to move into management in order to progress in their career.
This transition creates job dissatisfaction and burnout for designers and lost productivity and lower retention for companies.
I’m on a mission to evangelize the rise of the Super IC. I envision a world where every product designer can grow in their career without needing to switch to management.
Subscribe to my newsletter
Garron Engstrom 2025 • Follow me on LinkedIn
PORTFOLIO
I’ve been lucky to work on some really cool stuff
2014 • Intuit Turbotax
Designed a “Tax Timeline” that reduced support opex by $1M and increased revenue by $600K annually.
People have year-round tax needs but the product was only designed to support tax season from February to April. From a business standpoint we needed to support all user needs while not hurting conversion during tax season.
2015 • Intuit Turbotax
Designed “ExplainWhy” a feature that explains in personalized plain-English what impacts your tax refund.
I left Intuit before this launched so I don’t have business impact but the feature is still around over a decade later so it must have been net-positive for retention and conversion.
2019 • Facebook
Redesigned and relaunched AMBER Alerts on Facebook saving the feature from deprecation.
Every year half a million children go missing in the US alone. By 2019 the AMBER Alerts feature on Facebook was sitting on old infra with no team supporting it and was on the chopping block. I redesigned the feature, focusing on the child’s image, and recruited a team to rebuild it. I then went on to pitch the idea to Instagram who launched it 3 years later.
2020 • Facebook
Launched the Covid-19 Information Center on Facebook
In February 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. People needed information about how to stay healthy and slow the spread. Within a month we launched this resource.
Another month later and it was live to 98% of the worlds population and showed stat-sig increases in awareness of social distancing and other prevention measures.
2020 • Facebook
Launched Community Help, a place where people can request or offer help to their neighbors, donate to fundraisers for relief efforts, donate blood, and more.
As COVID-19 spread and people sheltered in place, access to certain goods and services became limited, leaving vulnerable populations across the globe at risk. Before deprecating it, the product launched to 143 countries and saw 100M+ requests and offers of help. It was the centerpiece of the company’s first-ever television ad.
RESOURCES
In my spare time I publish free resources to support the design community
Check them out at UX Career Guides
