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About
I enjoy helping great designers do their best work. I keep quiet online, but I have lots to say in real life. Also enjoy making funny things.
Work Experience
Supporting the excellent product design teams on Feed, Stories, Profile, Direct, Search, Explore & Labs.
I led Facebook's Growth, Lightweight Interfaces and Growth Infrastructure teams.
I helped Tilde, the makers of EmberJS, design their first commercial product, Skylight. Skylight is a performance monitoring tool for Rails applications.
Designed do.com, a now-defunct project management startup.
Speaking
I don't give a lot of public talks, but I thought this podcast gives a nice overall view of how I think about work.
Writing
“Lead with the executive summary. Take a position.
Awards
For EastSiders
Side Projects
Restaurant reservations and management software
A web-based print studio management and billing tool
Education
Studied industrial design, communication design and human-computer interaction.