Alanna Fischer

Senior Product Designer · Developer platforms, data infrastructure & AI

I help teams get to clarity when the problem is fog, then ship it. For seven years I've designed for technical users: enterprises at Dune, developers as the founding designer at smlXL (acquired by Dune), and investigators at Chainalysis.

I like starting from the mental model, keeping powerful tools easy to pick up, and building in the codebase myself when it helps. Claude Code is my design partner: this site and its case study decks were designed and built with it.

In my free time I ride horses, make meticulously curated playlists, and go on long walks around the city with my puppy, Clementine.

Open to senior and staff roles in developer platforms, data infrastructure, and AI.

Experience

7+ years

Senior Product Designer
Dune
2025 to 2026
Founding Product Designer
smlXL (acquired by Dune)
2023 to 2025
Product Designer
Chainalysis
2021 to 2023
Product Designer
IBM iX
2019 to 2021

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Several internships and freelance work
Various employers and clients
2017 to 2019

Education

B.S. Information Science
Cornell University
2015 to 2019
Exchange program
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Spring 2018

Work

Receipts

7 years in, 3 numbers out.

3enterprise deals unblocked through the organization layerIncluding Coinbase. An organization model (teams execute, orgs pay) went from zero to shipped in about a month, ahead of the back end; 11 accounts migrated on day one.Dune 2×daily searches within 30 daysFrom ~1,700 to ~3,500 a day within 30 days, after I reframed a discovery problem as a search problem and rebuilt the catalog around it.Dune 65+production changes shipped in one quarterShipped myself with Cursor and Claude Code in Q1 2026, on top of the design team's 200 PRs for the rebrand.Dune

What teammates say

“You can give her a design challenge that is arbitrarily large and significantly underdefined and she will find a path to something we're proud of shipping. She doesn't get stuck.”
Shane Auerbach Product Manager, Lyft (previously lead PM for Sim IDX, Dune)
“The most rigorous designer I have worked with. She zooms out, establishes context, brainstorms, clarifies, and proceeds to a single, optimal solution.”
Joe Ringenberg Staff Designer, Dune
“She didn't just hand designs off, she cared deeply about how things actually came to life in the product and consistently partnered closely with engineering to ensure the final experience matched the intent.”
Garrett Hughes Head of Infrastructure, Phantom (previously Dune)

Let's talk

The deep dives live in conversation. If you're hiring for hard, structural product problems, I'd love to hear about them.