so nice to meet you

Hi, I'm Dave and I've been designing app experiences for 15+ years — from early iPhone apps to SaaS platforms serving millions.

I love prototyping in code, collaborating with smart people, and making user experiences feel intuitive and simple. Thanks for checking out my work!

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Quotapath

An industry leading sales commission saas platform

At Quotapath, I led design for multiple product teams — crafting new product features monthly, as well as a brand new product called the Compensation Hub — helping sales teams explore, compare, and customize commission plans.

Lead Product Designer

Highlights:

  • Helped create and implement the Shape Up product process with 4 product/engineering teams
  • Led design for multiple product teams, shaping and shipping new features monthly
  • Designed and launched the Compensation Hub, a new product for sales teams
  • Collaborated closely with engineering and product management to deliver high-quality user experiences
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Rodio

Workforce communication for big retail

I led design from early ideas through revenue for this mid-size startup – concepting, facilitating design sprints, architecting UX, prototyping, and creating production-ready UI's across our native web, iOS and Android apps.

Within two years, we signed MarketSource/Allegis (the employee staffing agency for Target and Best Buy), and integrated with Kronos (a Fortune-100 workforce management software company).

Product UX/UI Design Lead

Highlights:

  • Led design for a product team of 20 (web, iOS and Android)
  • Facilitated design sprints to define problems, brainstorm solutions, and protoype ideas
  • Created and maintained a design system with master, web, iOS and Android component libraries
  • Pitched a demo that solidified an integration partnership with a Fortune-100
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Bnbfinder

A platform for niche travel listings (now Savvy.com)

Led design and front-end development on this platform for multiple travel listing verticals, starting with bnbfinder. The platform included a consumer app for travelers, a member app for property owners, and a back-office app for administrators.

We built the platform and the first travel site, from whiteboards to 8k subscribers (4k paid), with a team of 3, in under a year.

Product UX/UI Design Lead + Front-End Dev

Highlights:

  • Concepted, designed and wrote front-end code for this a platform (consumer, owner and admin apps) from scratch on the tech stack: Elixir > React / Next.js > Custom front-end Framework / Tailwind CSS
  • Created and helped manage our agile development process using Jira and Trello
  • Presented bi-weekly development updates to the management, sales and marketing teams
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Accomplishments

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30+ Products

Having led design at an agency and multiple startups, I've created intuitive experiences from telemedicine, to puzzle games, to entertainment, to interactive education, to travel.


It's taught me how successful dev teams work — including design sprints, prototype validation and agile iteration.

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#1 iPhone App

Shortly after launching the photo editing app we created for A Beautiful Mess (shown below), it shot to #1 in the iTunes App Store.


It then stayed in the top 100 Paid apps for over a year – getting millions of downloads and revenue.

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Millions of Users

I've concepted and designed apps that have garnered millions of downloads for Ellen, A Beautiful Mess, Dancefight, and more.


I've also built web apps that thousands of people rely on on a daily basis.

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Rocket

A boutique digital agency

Over the better part of a decade, I co-founded, helped grow the business, and led design for Rocket — a 2-person indie dev shop we grew into a 20-person digital agency. We specialized in concepting, prototyping and building apps and websites for early-stage startups to household names.

Co-Founder + Product Designer + Front-End Developer

Highlights:

  • Managed marketing/sales and accounts for dozens of client projects
  • Hired, managed and grew a product team of back-end, front-end, iOS and Android developers
  • Concepted, designed and delivered custom apps and websites for 30+ client projects
  • Designed and launched a #1 Paid iTunes App through a 2.0 release
  • Created a multi-million dollar CRM/CMS platform for one of the largest (and most intense) auto sales organizations in the US
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Timebomb

Lead Product Designer

A conditional messaging app

I Co-Founded and led design for this conditional messaging app (native iOS and Android) from whiteboard sketches through a 2.0 release with a team of 10.

The hip and user-friendly experience helped us raise two investment rounds with some big name investors and marketing partners.

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Dancefight

Lead Product Designer

A social voting app

I consulted for this seed-round startup and helped with UX flows and final UIs for onboaring/tutorials, the main feed, the voting UX, tournament creation, and tournament brackets.

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