Launched an independent, creative design consultancy in San Francisco in 2019. Offer clients a range of brand transformation and marketing design services, both on-site and remotely, including:

► UI/UX DESIGN & WRITING: share expertise and creative vision to dramatically enhance brand messaging, user flows/engagement, and overall performance

► IDEA GENERATION: bringing to life visceral, human-centered concepts, designs, and executions that take customer satisfaction, recall, and conversion rates to new levels of success

► BRANDING: brainstorm and produce dynamic creative for consumer and B2B marketing, including ad campaigns, visual identity, collateral, logos, presentations, emails, and other visual design assets

In addition to being an award-winning designer and creative director, Dean is a multidisciplinary contemporary artist. Drawing from his lifelong study of history, psychology, and classical literature, together with his passionate curiosity to ask “what if?”, “why not?”, and “can I?”, Dean fashions original abstract paintings of both meticulous layering and whimsical freeform creativity.

Dean’s west coast studio is in the historic Mission District of San Francisco, CA (Jan 2019-present).

Dean’s east coast studio was housed in New Rochelle, NY (July 2015-Dec 2018).

► UI/UX Creative Lead, leading design, writing, and research for company's product launch, website design, dashboard implementation, and user acquisition campaigns

► Designed and A/B tested new customer "Privacy Dashboard," "Risk Assessment Gauge," and "Breach Alert" pages

► Delivered recommendations and iterated content for 3 user acquisition flows, which increased base conversion rates by between 14-25% across the three flows; Premium Subscription conversion rates have gone up 6-12% as well