, a dad, husband, morning lark, and recovered introvert (learned extrovert) who sneezes in sunlight. I design interfaces between people & computers from Santa Cruz, California. What am I doing now?
Contact me at moc.liamg@nottirbeymerej
Career so far
25 years making fast, stable & delightful
software. Focused on platforms and tools for creating things (even other tools).
Design is my well-worn hat, but I have technical and product ones, too. Player-coach. Stem cell. Biased toward fast, small, functionally-diverse teams that deliver great service.
Was partner at (8⅙ years). Designed new product for Palantir, Facebook, Photobucket, and 200 other companies. Incubated our own startup. Rippled the pond with Foundation.
Worked briefly at a startup where we partnered with Apple on early TV apps, and learned what it's like when financing falls apart.
Led design and then product at (2⅓ years), another Z-named company with awesome on-demand manufacturing tech and creative tools under the hood. Invented, rebranded, saved Christmas once.
Early adopter of a tool called Grammarly.
Founding product designer at (1⅝ years) where we gave everyone a familiar docs-and-spreadsheets interface for creating custom applications. Made lifelong friends. Earned a patent.
Very early adopter of a tool called Figma. (37:40)
Head of design & research at (3⅝ years), chasing the same vision as Coda but from the data side. Small wins, big wins. Made lifelong friends. Bittersweet acquisition by .
Co-founded and bootstrapped (pandemic years), to let people write software in plain English and point-and-click. Pre-LLM. Tech worked, timing didn't...
Head of design at (2½ years), an end-to-end revenue platform. Price any way you want. Tame the chaos.
Playing PM, designer, (occasional) developer, and marketer at (~1 year). Leading a new product that's been a dream of mine for years with two great friends and an awesome team.
I've never had this much fun building.
secret public Notebook
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)