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👨🏻‍💻 Current

Staff Product Designer at Edmodo 2018–2020

🗃 Past

Freelance Designer at various companies in San Francisco, California 2018

Sr. Product Designer at Instamotor in San Francisco, California 2016–2018

Sr. Product Designer at Experticity in Salt Lake City, Utah 2014–2016

Product Designer at Lendio in Salt Lake City, Utah 2012–2014

🎓 Education

Utah State University, Design 2008–2012

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Some blog posts and podcasts that are currently influencing the way I think and how I approach building products

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Iterations in the Design Process

I have always thought that the biggest challenges in design are related to the way we understand ourcontext and how we approach its needs. In some way, our work is meant to constantly fail every time our "solutions" are confronted with the multiple forces which reality is composed of, but it's not a pointless effort.

blog.prototypr.io

The Timeless Way of Building

"Within this process, every individual act of building is a process in which space gets differentiated. It is not a process of addition, in which preformed parts are combined to create a whole, but a process of unfolding, like the evolution of an embryo, in which the whole precedes the parts, and actually gives birth to them, by splitting."

www.goodreads.com

The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet

In his sci-fi trilogy The Three Body Problem, author Liu Cixin presents the dark forest theory of the universe. When we look out into space, the theory goes, we're struck by its silence. It seems like we're the only ones here. After all, if other forms of life existed, wouldn't they show themselves?

onezero.medium.com

REMOTE: Office Not Required

1 in three business categories on Amazon.com. As an employer, restricting your hiring to a small geographic region means you're not getting the best people you can. As an employee, restricting your job search to companies within a reasonable commute means you're not working for the best company you can.

basecamp.com

Beyond Burned Out

When the Covid-19 pandemic began, I felt as if I were in one of those disaster movies, standing in front of a rapidly spreading fire as an entire city was about to be engulfed in flames. And despite feeling that a massive disruption was imminent, I could only watch in shock.

hbr.org

Currently Reading

How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi: 9780525509288 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

"What do you do after you have written Stamped From the Beginning, an award-winning history of racist ideas? . . . If you're Ibram X. Kendi, you craft another stunner of a book. . . .

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi: 9780525509288 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

Why Designers Leave

Let's say someone asked you to paint them a painting. A beautiful painting, a masterpiece, to be hung in the lobby of an Important Building. "Great," you say. You are an accomplished painter, and this is quite an exciting project. You ask what this painting should be of. "Your speciality, of course.

medium.com

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