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
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 technical and product ones, too. Player-coach. Stem cell. Biased toward fast, small, functionally-diverse teams that deliver great service.
Was partner at Foundation.
(8⅙ years). Designed products for Facebook, 23andMe, eBay, Photobucket, NYSE, and 200 other companies. Incubated our own startup 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.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.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...Now head of design at
(2+ years), an end-to-end revenue platform. We try to let companies price their products & services any way they want, then promise to tame the chaos that follows.Embracing sea change.
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)