# Dylan Parks > Staff Product Designer, Design Systems at Coursera Location: Roanoke, Virginia, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/dylanparks Currently working at Coursera as a Senior Product Designer on the Design Systems team. I’ve collaborated with our brand and marketing teams to work on implementing a community-driven platform-changing token library including color tokens, typography tokens, and more. I’ve worked alongside our internal accessibility guild and accessibility contractors to craft highly accessible components and design patterns to enhance accessibility for a wide variety of users with various cognitive impairments across the platform. I have also worked on my co-led side project, Pegasus Design System to provide the wider design community with a variety of well-crafted Figma components alongside React code. ## Work Experience ### Staff Product Designer, Design Systems @ Coursera Jan 2025 – Present | United States Working on and maintaining Coursera’s internal design system, CDS and partnering with design pods to assist with adoption and accessibility concerns. Additionally, working directly with the visual experience pod to elevate the visual design and aesthetics across all design pods. ### Senior Product Designer, Design Systems @ Coursera Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | United States Work to improve and promote the use of Coursera’s internal design system used by over 40 product designers across multiple disciplines in the product. We operate in an accessibility-first approach, accommodating our component designs and design assets for screenreaders, assistive technologies, screen zoom technologies, and other physical and cognitive disabilities. Our philosophy is to build out our system with a community-driven approach, collaborating with the designers and iterating on feedback based on their usage as well as A/B user tests with various user backgrounds. ### Product Designer II, Design Systems @ Coursera Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | United States Work on creating accessible, responsive components and educational design resources used across the 40+ product designers in Coursera. ### Lead Product Designer @ Pegasus Design System for Figma Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | United States My weekend side project, Pegasus Design System seeks to bring the design community the tools they need to create digital products more efficiently. ### UX Designer @ block.one Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Blacksburg, VA Work with the block.one team on designing engaging user experiences through UI and Visual Design. Created the initial Figma Design System used by the Bullish design team. ### UX Design Intern @ Virginia Tech Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Blacksburg, VA Worked on information architecture tasks such as card sorting as well as analyzing user search data and working with metadata to help customer support users reach their destinations quicker. Worked with front-end development html/css frameworks such as bootstrap for responsive prototyping. ### Design Intern @ Volvo Group Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Dublin, Virginia Worked on a design for and built out a corporate customer hospitality website while also revising the branding. Worked on both printed and digital marketing items to promote the service. ### Graphic Design Work-study @ Radford University Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Radford, Virginia Responsible for creating graphics, such as TV screen graphics, poster, flyers, and etc. for various campus-related activites; especially for events based on the Visual and Performing Arts. ## Education ### Bachelor’s Degree in B.F.A. Graphic Design Radford University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dylan-parks - Dribbble: https://dribbble.com/dylan_parks - Portfolio: https://dylan-parks.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/dylanparks JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/dylanparks/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31