The person behind the pixels
About
I’m Noah — a designer and developer in San Francisco. I’ve spent the last decade shipping digital products end to end: leading design teams, drawing identity systems, and writing the front-end code that makes them real.
These days I lead design at Northwind Labs, maintain the Mono icon set, and take on one or two independent projects a year. When I’m off the clock I’m usually drawing letterforms or riding somewhere steep.
Experience
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Design lead
Northwind Labs · 2023 — Present
Leading a five-person product design team across two B2B products. Rebuilt the design system, cut design-to-ship time in half, and put designers in the codebase.
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Senior product designer
Ledger Financial · 2020 — 2023
Owned the core dashboard experience through a ground-up redesign. Shipped the one-number home view that lifted daily active use 24% in a quarter.
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Product designer
Signalhouse Network · 2018 — 2020
Designed the network's identity system, web player, and publishing tools. Twelve shows, one grid, and a rollout that grew subscribers 40% in six months.
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Designer & developer
Freelance · 2016 — 2018
Designed and built sites and small products for studios and startups. Learned to ship whole things alone — the habit everything since is built on.
Education
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MFA, Interaction Design
California College of the Arts · 2014 — 2016
Thesis on typographic systems in software interfaces. Studio practice in identity, motion, and front-end prototyping.
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BS, Computer Science
University of Washington · 2010 — 2014
Focused on human-computer interaction and graphics. Built the engineering habits that let design decisions ship.
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Certificate, Type Design
Cooper Union · 2017
A year of drawing letterforms under people who've drawn them for decades. Changed how I look at every page since.
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Exchange, Visual Communication
Design Academy Eindhoven · 2013
A semester of Dutch poster tradition — grids, scale, and the confidence to let type be the image.
Skills
- Interface design
- 92%
- Design systems
- 88%
- Front-end build
- 84%
- Brand identity
- 80%
- Motion design
- 76%
- User research
- 72%
Contact
Let’s make something electric
Have a project in mind, or just want to talk shop? My inbox is open.
San Francisco, CA