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Reference: Modern Product Design at Typeof, Porto, Portugal

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Using the new framework, work begins on <text-color-booking>CityBook<text-color-booking>, a mobile app to experience cities while…

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Combined technology from <text-color-booking>Traveller<text-color-booking> and <text-color-booking>Guides<text-color-booking> into a multi-platform app framework

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Began consultation on <text-color-booking>Guides<text-color-booking>, a mobile web prototype to explore new content ideas for travelers

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Began work on <text-color-booking>Traveller<text-color-booking>, a mobile native prototype to explore new feature ideas for travelers

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Joined <text-color-booking>Booking Experiences<text-color-booking> track to develop new travel products and ideas

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Moved to Amsterdam

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Advised startups in SHV’s portfolio and explored new product concepts

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Design and build out of <text-color-figma>vector networks<text-color-figma> for Figma’s Pen Tool

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First <text-color-figma>Figma concepts and prototypes<text-color-figma> created

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<text-color-adobe>Sinewave<text-color-adobe> concepts complete

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Second round of design discussions for Figma

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First round of design discussions for Figma

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<text-color-twitter>Twitter<text-color-twitter> rebrand launches

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Designed and built <text-color-twitter>Birdseye<text-color-twitter> prototype

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<text-color-twitter>#NewNewTwitter<text-color-twitter> ships

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A Practical Guide to Designing Across Devices at Design by Fire Conference, The Netherlands

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Design from the Center at Frontiers of Interaction, Italy

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Newly redesigned and rebuilt <text-color-yahoo>Yahoo! Mail 2010<text-color-yahoo> ships

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Turning the Corporate Battleship with Design at Design by Fire Conference, The Netherlands

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<text-color-involution>PowerPoint is not an Excuse<text-color-involution> published

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<text-color-involution>Can TypeKit Bring Fonts to the Web?<text-color-involution> published

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<text-color-involution>A Tale of Two Valleys<text-color-involution> published

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<text-color-involution>Make Big Money Online!<text-color-involution> published

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<text-color-involution>Upward Mobility<text-color-involution> published

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<text-color-involution>Coming Interactions<text-color-involution> published

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<text-color-involution>Click to Run<text-color-involution> published

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<text-color-involution>Open Range<text-color-involution> published

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Design Eye for Southby at SXSW, Austin TX

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Think from the Center, Design for the Edge at Design by Fire Conference, The Netherlands

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<text-color-adobe>Adobe Creative Suite 3<text-color-adobe> ships

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Design Eye for the List Guy at SXSW, Austin TX

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Design Eye for the Idea Guy at SXSW, Austin TX

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Design by Fire is featured in Communication Arts, The Blog that Ate the Internet

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<text-color-adobe>Adobe Creative Suite<text-color-adobe> ships

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Party like it’s 1999!

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<text-color-specular>Specular Texturescape<text-color-specular> awarded MacUser Editor’s Choice for Best Graphics Utility

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Launched Adobe Illustrator, Aldus FreeHand and Microsoft PowerPoint for the first time

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Mick Napier’s Metraform presents <text-color-stagemanager>Splatter Theater II<text-color-stagemanager> in Chicago, IL

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Productions include <text-color-intern>Are We There Yet?, Mesmer<text-color-intern>, and <text-color-intern>Super Sunday<text-color-intern>

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Hill Graduation, commencement speech given by Harry Hamlin

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The Hill School
Pottstown, PA

Intern, Production Design
Chocolate Bayou Theater

President, Ellis Theater Guild
The Hill School

Intern, Production Design
Wlliamstown Theater Festival

President, Ellis Theater Guild
The Hill School

Intern, Stage Management
Wlliamstown Theater Festival

Stage Manager
Metraform Productions

Graphic Designer
American Steel Foundries

Amherst College
Amherst, MA

Director & Founding Member
Specular International

Senior Interface Designer
Adobe Systems

Director of Design
Mambo

Director of Design
Impresse

Director of Design
ePeople

Project Lead, Lightroom
Adobe Systems

Chief Design Officer
Involution Studios

Notable Clients:
McAfee, Oracle, Microsoft, Nomee, Shutterfly, Raptr,Lithium, and PGi

Desktop Columnist
PRINT Magazine

Sr. Director of Product Design
Yahoo!

Director of Design
Twitter

Advisor to Figma’s co-founders. Contracted with Adobe Systems on Sinewave, a concept photo application for iOS.

Designer
Figma

Designer in Residence
Sutter Hill Ventures

Principal Product Designer
Booking.com

Partner
Seldon Digital B.V.