Director of Product Design, AI Labs at Zeta Global, in partnership with OpenAI. Formerly Design Architect at Meta.
Meta (Facebook) · 2023
A 6-week design system sprint at Meta, partnering with 3 orgs to design and integrate new components into the Facebook Design System. The initiative raised design system surface adoption from 19% to 59% and shipped 21 components, surpassing the target of 17.
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Pegasus (Founder) · 2022
Pegasus is a multi-tenant SaaS platform and design system designed and built solo, combining portfolio dashboards, trading interfaces, real estate listings, file management, and content publishing. It serves as a live product and design laboratory, and its design system has been adapted for use in client projects.
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InworldAI · 2023
Product design for InworldAI, a platform for building AI-powered characters for games. The work focused on developer-facing tooling, centered on the Narrative Graph, a visual interface for authoring character behavior, and included a co-development collaboration with Xbox that produced a reference integration for major game studios.
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Floating between product, engineering, and design orgs to own the system, not a swimlane.
Proof: Facebook Design SystemAmbiguous brief to shipped product on a lean loop, with the PM and engineering fluency to keep the roadmap real.
Proof: Inworld AITokenized, themeable, governed. Systems that engineering adopts because they make shipping faster.
Proof: PegasusHiring, leveling, DesignOps, and executive partnership. Scaled with Bullish from 5 to 400 people; stood up three design pillars at Inworld AI.
Proof: About“Working with John for the last few years, he's continued to impress with his depth of knowledge and creativity in designing user first product experiences. He's risen to many unique challenges of our industry from a UX and product perspective making even the most complex concepts simple.”
“I was on a design system project that John led at Facebook. John effortlessly brought designers together, fostering a collaborative environment where everyone worked as one cohesive team. His empathy and genuine concern for others create an atmosphere of collaboration and trust.”