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Hey! I'm Taryn.
I’m a neuroscientist turned product designer with over 3 years of experience specialising in systems thinking, accessible design, and scalable design systems.
Before stepping into design, I spent 4 years in financial services — leading teams, driving change, and navigating the messy realities of customer service, remediation, and compliance. That experience shaped how I design today: with empathy, precision, and a deep respect for real-world complexity.
Why I do what I do.
I aim to eliminate any sh*t experience in my way - regardless of if I was working in hospitality or navigating financial services, I’ve always been driven to fix what doesn’t work or could work better.
I’m fuelled by curiosity and caffeine. And at the end of the day, design isn’t just a way to afford my ever-inflating morning coffee. It’s how I engage with the world: constantly empathising, spotting problems, and crafting solutions.
But who is Taryn?
No really, tell me something fun.
I’m a first-generation immigrant, neurodiverse, queer — and a designer.
I live my life persistently aware of how good design could have made my day (or someone else’s) just a little better.
I’m constantly observing, thinking, and ideating to solve everyday problems — whether it’s crafting designs that users and stakeholders love, or organising the most obscure drawer in my house.
I’m fuelled by curiosity, spreadsheets, an obsession with personal finance, and most importantly... caffeine.
My Notion is a masterpiece of life admin.
I’ve built epic, interactive, and visually appealing digital designs but also built simple, clean enterprise software where users get from start to end like cutting through butter with a hot knife.
I’m basically a builder and I’d go as far as to say... I know my way around a Bunnings.
I love a challenge, to be challenged and to sit in discomfort - after all, discomfort and fear is growth.
Resume
Link to full resume below.
2024 - current
Product Designer, Macquarie Group
Leading design on Macquarie’s largest transformation initiative—digitising legacy Excel-based Treasury processes into a seamless, accessible digital experience that is helping unlock over AUD $6B.
Building the organisation’s accessibility design function 0 > 1, and contributing to the scaling and maintaining local and global design systems.
2023 - 2024
Product Designer, Pearler Investments
Redesigned nine core features accounting for 90% of user engagement. Transformed complex, outdated, and developer-built experiences into intuitive, user- and data-led solutions. This work improved usability, aligned with the founders’ strategic vision, and contributed to key funding milestones including a A$7.8M seed round and later-stage VC investment.
2022-2024
Jnr Product Designer, Atlassian
Designed and delivered research-led solutions across internal tools and customer-facing features in three core enterprise-focused projects. This work supported customers in meeting their own compliance requirements and enabled broader platform adoption by facilitating regulatory alignment across global markets, contributing to Atlassian’s accelerated enterprise cloud growth since late 2022.
2019-2023
Various Roles, Commbank
Held multiple roles across Commonwealth Bank’s customer support and operations teams, including team leadership, specialist support, remediation, and change and project management. My primary focus across my roles involved managing operational and regulatory controls within contact centre environments, supporting large specialist teams, and contributing to the design of tools and processes to improve compliance, consistency, and customer experience.
2022
UX/UI Designer, Teachflows
Led the research and redesign of Teachflows’ homepage to reflect its core mission of saving teachers time through AI-powered resource generation. By improving content hierarchy, streamlining messaging, and surfacing product benefits earlier, the work helped increase educator engagement and made Teachflows’ offering more immediately actionable—supporting broader adoption in the early stages of platform growth.
2021 - 2022
UX/UI Designer, Lyka
Designed and delivered a research-led transformation of Lyka’s homepage to better communicate their mission of extending dogs’ lifespans through fresh, science-backed nutrition. This work clarified the value proposition, improved trust signals, and aligned the brand’s visual language with its B Corp certification—helping more customers confidently engage with a subscription-based wellness product for their pets.