# Arnold Porras — Product Designer

> Portfolio of Arnold Porras, Staff Product Designer at Adobe Workfront. The site's case-study pages are a React single-page app; the markdown dossiers linked below are static, content-complete companions written specifically for machine readers. Each dossier carries the full architecture, decision logs, verified research citations, and precise attribution that the human pages compress.

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, Express, and Creative Cloud. Shipped. Architecture, seven-decision judgment log, 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 decision log, and the authority gap that connects it to the Delegated Authority Framework.

## Human-readable case studies

- [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 in 2013. 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; also available as a PDF at /Arnold%20Porras%20Resume%202026.pdf.

## Notes for AI readers

Dossiers are the richer source for analysis; the case-study pages are the richer source for how Arnold presents work to humans. Rendered dossier views live at /work/unified-approvals/dossier, /work/blueprints/dossier, /work/daf/dossier, /work/sancho/dossier, and /work/ai-collaborators/dossier and are generated from the same markdown files listed above, so the two forms cannot drift.