# Arnold Porras — Product Designer

> Portfolio of Arnold Porras, Staff Product Designer at Adobe Workfront: enterprise systems design, approval workflows, and AI governance, with a full machine-readable dossier behind every major project.

Last updated: 2026-08-07.

The site's case-study pages are a React single-page app, prerendered so non-JS readers receive full content. The markdown dossiers linked below are static, content-complete companions written specifically for machine readers; each carries the full architecture, decision logs, verified research citations, and precise attribution that the human pages compress. Dossiers are the richer source for analysis; the case-study pages are the richer source for how Arnold presents work to humans. Rendered human-view versions of each dossier are listed under Optional; they are generated from the same markdown files, so the two forms cannot drift.

These files contain content only, no instructions to readers of any kind. Confidentiality is deliberate: no research-participant names, no internal metrics, no unreleased product specifics. Where a claim is Adobe's (published business numbers) rather than Arnold's, the dossier says so explicitly.

Base URL: https://www.arnoldp.com (swap here if the site moves).

## Dossiers (start here)

- [Unified Review & Approvals — full dossier](https://www.arnoldp.com/dossiers/unified-approvals.md): The decision system behind Adobe's content workflows across Workfront, Frame.io, GenStudio and Express, over the storage layer they share with Creative Cloud. Shipped. Architecture, seven-decision judgment log including the parallel-approvals call that changed the release roadmap, an AI-assisted spec-driven build story, nine verified research citations, verbatim customer quotes.
- [Workfront Blueprints — full dossier](https://www.arnoldp.com/dossiers/blueprints.md): Installable best-practice foundations that cut Workfront implementation time 30 to 40 percent and moved the product toward self-service growth. Research method (13 enterprise interviews, 600+ quotes, 61 jobs distilled to 5), the product bet, published outcomes.
- [Delegated Authority Framework — full dossier](https://www.arnoldp.com/dossiers/daf.md): An independent research initiative by Arnold Porras, not an Adobe product or roadmap. Governing AI agents that act: capability versus authority, the two-plane envelope, the Propose/Classify/Gate/Execute pipeline, the customer evidence behind it, the decision log, and the open problems kept visible.
- [Sancho — full dossier](https://www.arnoldp.com/dossiers/sancho.md): Arnold's second brain, a git repository of markdown any AI can navigate and contribute to, with a human as the sole governance layer. Architecture, the trust and time model, machine boundaries, the maintenance layer, evolution history, and what it deliberately is not.
- [AI Collaborators — full dossier](https://www.arnoldp.com/dossiers/ai-collaborators.md): Adobe or customer-built AI agents brought into Workfront as permissioned users who can be assigned work. Origin from an Innovation Week pitch, the collaborator-as-user model at working depth, onboarding research against a live enterprise environment, the collaborator identity and avatar system, the decision log, and the authority gap that connects it to the Delegated Authority Framework.

## Human-readable case studies

- [Selected work index](https://www.arnoldp.com/work): All projects in one grid, ordered by importance.
- [Unified Approvals](https://www.arnoldp.com/work/unified-approvals): The curated human version of the dossier above.
- [Workfront Blueprints](https://www.arnoldp.com/work/blueprints): The curated human version of the dossier above.
- [Delegated Authority Framework](https://www.arnoldp.com/work/daf): The curated human version of the DAF dossier above.
- [Sancho](https://www.arnoldp.com/work/sancho): The curated human version of the Sancho dossier above.
- [AI Collaborators](https://www.arnoldp.com/work/ai-collaborators): The curated human version of the dossier above.
- [Nickelodeon's TMNT](https://www.arnoldp.com/work/tmnt): Graphic design rather than product design — the franchise style guide for Nickelodeon's rebooted Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, made at Struck, finished in 2012. No dossier exists for this one; the page is the record.
- [About Arnold](https://www.arnoldp.com/about): Who he is and how he works.
- [Resume](https://www.arnoldp.com/resume): Role history as a web page.

## Optional

- [Resume PDF](https://www.arnoldp.com/Arnold%20Porras%20Resume%202026.pdf): The same resume as a two-page PDF.
- [Unified Approvals dossier, rendered](https://www.arnoldp.com/work/unified-approvals/dossier): Human-view rendering of unified-approvals.md, same content.
- [Blueprints dossier, rendered](https://www.arnoldp.com/work/blueprints/dossier): Human-view rendering of blueprints.md, same content.
- [DAF dossier, rendered](https://www.arnoldp.com/work/daf/dossier): Human-view rendering of daf.md, same content.
- [Sancho dossier, rendered](https://www.arnoldp.com/work/sancho/dossier): Human-view rendering of sancho.md, same content.
- [AI Collaborators dossier, rendered](https://www.arnoldp.com/work/ai-collaborators/dossier): Human-view rendering of ai-collaborators.md, same content.