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Intuit · for EducationPrincipal Product Designer2022 — Now

Intuit for
Education

Building financial confidence for the next generation — designed and shipped from inside the codebase.

Role
Principal Product Designer · Design Lead
Team
Product, Engineering, Content, Research
Scope
End-to-end product design & system
Workflow
Cursor · Claude · GitHub PRs
01 — Context

The challenge

The Intuit Education Platform brings free financial literacy to classrooms — serving three very different audiences at once: teachers who assign and track, students who learn, and admins who manage it all.

My role as lead was to set a single product vision and a design language that could hold all three experiences together.

"Design intent, translated straight into shipped code."
02 — Approach

Design in the codebase

Rather than handing static mockups to engineering, I worked directly in the repo. Using Cursor and Claude, I translated design decisions into real components, branched from GitHub, and opened pull requests so design and engineering reviewed the same living artifact.

The result was a dramatically shorter loop: an idea could go from concept to a reviewable, production-quality component in a single sitting.

PR #248 — refine onboarding card
// components/OnboardingCard.tsx padding: 16px; border-radius: 4px; padding: 24px; border-radius: 12px; transition: transform .3s ease; // designed → coded → reviewed in one loop
James Barraza — San Diego County, CA [email protected] · /in/james-barraza