Work

Who am I?

• Design is in my blood, literally.
  My grandfather owned a packaging design firm. My parents met in design school. My brother and I both design for our livelihoods. Fortunately we all really love design, otherwise who knows what kind of trouble we'd cause.
• Outside of the studio I'm a father, skier and CrossFitter who never gets to play enough board games.

Throughout my career I've always tried to keep a few things in mind:

• Stay on target—always keep users and stakeholders in the crosshairs.
• Recognize limitations and opportunities—how can design make a difference?
• Generate and evaluate objectively—falling in love with the first idea seldom ends well.
• Know the medium and it's constraints—or learn them, quickly.
• It takes a village—design that sits on the shelf is a waste.

So, what does this mean for the type of work I'm interested in doing?

• I enjoy complex domains that have thorny problems to be solved.
• I like to touch various points in the design process.
• I want to work collaboratively with developers and business stakeholders.
• I prefer a measure of variety in my work—a stale designer = stale design.

Here are some samples of work I've done over the years: