morning lark, and introvert who sneezes in sunlight. I design interfaces between people & computers from Santa Cruz, California. What am I doing now?
, a dad, husband,Contact me at moc.liamg@nottirbeymerej
secret public Notebook
Career so far
23 years designing fast, stable & delightful
software. Focused on platforms and tools for creating things ("productivity").
Design is my well-worn hat, but I have product and technical hats, too. Player-coach.
Was partner at Foundation. Traded in my consulting badge to be a team member...
(8⅙ years) where we designed interfaces with Facebook, 23andMe, eBay, Photobucket, NYSE, and 200 other companies (some almost changed the world). Incubated our own startup, LuckyOliver, and rippled the pond withLed design and then product at
(2⅓ years), a goofy-named company with awesome on-demand manufacturing tech and creative tools under the hood. Invented, rebranded, saved Christmas once, fell for Coda...Founding product designer at
(1⅝ years) where we gave everyone a familiar docs-and-spreadsheets interface for creating custom applications. Found Looker at an inflection point...Head of design at
(3⅝ years), chasing the same end vision as Coda, but from the data query side. Bittersweet acquisition by ; I was a lifer, but not a Googler...Co-founded and bootstrapped
(pandemic years), to let people write software in plain English and point-and-click. Pre-LLM, our tech worked, our timing didn't...Now I'm head of design at
(~2 years so far), an end-to-end "revenue platform." We let companies price their products & services any way they want, then tame the chaos that follows. In it to win it.(Bracing for the AI sea change.)
published Articles
- Mashable article
- 24-hour Design-a-thon
- Google Tech Talk
- About.com interview
- The Antidote to Know-It-All Management
- Steve Martin
- The 10 Most Important Words in Design & Business
- Three Kinds of Lies With Data
- Charles Darwin: Prototypical Designer
- Battles of the Barnes
- Clutch Is Overrated
- Putting Back the "Kobe Assist"
- Are the Warriors Right?
- How do I catch up on all the sports I missed?
- What Are Sports Economists Like? (Part 1)
- Six Pieces of Cutting Edge Research (Part 2)
- Insiders, Outsiders & Good Talks (Part 3)