About
Profile
My current title at Elastic is Princial Designer - UX Architect where I lead design efforts for key, cross-team business initiatives.
Past experience as a developer coupled with an ongoing love for HTML, CSS, and systems design enables me to get into the weeds with engineers and Product Managers to arrive at practical solutions.
In addition to web-based, UI design work, I often find myself invovled with the less-glamorous user experiences of CLIs, APIs, and text editors. Developer tooling and operations are constantly evoloving, challenging yet fun to grok, and provide many interesting design opportunities.
On a personal note, I am a Midwesterner who now resides in sunny Seattle with my wife, two teenagers, and three cats.
About
Skills
- Principal Designer
- Design Manager
- Design Systems
- UX Architect
- Glue Person
- Research
- HTML ♥
- CSS ♥
Employer
Elastic
2018 - Present
Experience
Kibana
Directly and indirectly, I have contributed to the user experience of Kibana in many ways. As both a leader and individual contributor of the Platform UX team, we contribute design, research, and frontend code to the most-used portions of Elastic's web products.
Our team is proud to work on core experiences such as Discover, Dashboard, Lens, and Cloud, and a variety of global UIs such as navigation.
With a hat tip to past coworkers, we also support the ongoing design and development of the highly-successful Elastic UI (EUI) design system.
Elastic works in the open. For a peek into what design is like here, you can check out my GitHub issue activty.
Portfolio requests can be made via email.
Employer
Chef
2016 - 2018
Employer
Startups
2012-2016
Experience
Case studies
A while back, I prepared two in-depth case studies covering everything from sketches and research on through design, metric tracking, and iteration that demonstrated how my work moved the needle.
These were some of my favorite experiences in product design, and I am happy to share them upon request.
My work experience extends back another 10+ years covering frontend and backend development.