Key metrics and business impact
Just some of the recognition I've recieved
“I wish I had more “John Waynes!” His maturity and calmness led the team through a time of a lot of change. His work on numerous initiatives unlocked design and impacted the product and team, as well as the customer and contributed to exceptional holiday sales. ”
Senior Director of Design
“John Wayne is a self-starter, highly strategic and puts in the effort to carefully understand customer problems. This makes him a strong product partner. He is able to think of the problem clearly and hence influence his team to design accordingly, as he leads with strategic intent, going beyond the focus on a sole feature to focusing on the entire product. John Wayne also demonstrated in- depth understanding our customers and can articulate their needs.”
Senior Director of Design
“… you elevated the team with your professionalism, solid process, design skills, and eagerness to share and teach what you know.”
Director of Design
“John Wayne is an amazing mentor and leader. His voice and strategic point of view is integral to the success of our team. He has led multiple products to launch and is continuously doing a great job at pushing everything forward. He is an asset to the design team and he is valued by all of us.”
Senior Product Designer
“Gifted and direct in guidance. Confident, unflappable, articulate, & candid.”
Principle Product Designer
“Great designer and compassionate leader.”
Director, UX & Product Design
Twitter | San Francisco, CA | May. ’22 – Jan. '23
Director-level IC for the core of Twitter. Rapidly took on a range of large, complex projects driving through leadership & execution with positive metrics impact. Drove & executed on the largest Twitter surfaces; Home, Tweets, & Tweet Details; through vast usability improvements, mental-model mapping, conceptual changes, & design operations via project tracking, design reviews, & critiques.
True | San Francisco, CA | May. ’20 – Oct. ’20
Head of Design for a social-media startup. Grew the design team to 6+ designers. Responsible for overall strategy, vision, & execution across all platforms. Implemented organizational changes & created new processes for efficiency & predictability. Proactively led product and design teams to a 6-month lead time for new products, features, & innovations, successfully closing the gap with engineering teams. trytrue.com
Ancestry | San Francisco, CA | Oct. ’16 – Feb ’20
Designer Leader for Ancestry DNA. Led & directed 30+ team members spanning 5 pillars across 2 offices. Fostered & grew a culture of innovation through reviews, critique, & empowerment. Collaborated with cross-functional partners & executive leaders to bring forward a vision & direction for product improvements & 0-1 new products..
Idean (now Frog) | San Francisco, CA | Mar. ’15 – July ’16
Design Lead for multiple teams on multiple client projects. Managed a team of six interns and three designers. Served as the Design Lead for a new consumer product for a large action camera company, working for 1.5 years to bring the product to market. Designed a multi-user/size/input hardware/software experience which helps teams work together better both remotely and colocated in the same space.
Stimulant | San Francisco, CA | Oct. ’12 – Feb. ’14
I designed the MOHAI Launchpad for the Bezos Center for Innovation, the digital experiences for the Reunion Tower in Dallas, Tx, the Intel Ultrabook Exhibit in the Intel Museum, a creative drawing application for large tablets for Samsung’s PIT group, and more. I designed for uncommon computing through collaboration, experimentation, prototyping, and iteration with clients, engineers, and product teams.
Punchcut | San Francisco, CA | May ’11 – Oct. ’12
At Punchcut I designed a watch-battery powered smart watch, music applications, communication applications, and e-commerce applications for Fortune 500 companies, corporations, and start-ups. I designed mobile experiences for smart phones, tablets, and TVs. Delivered artifacts from sketches and prototypes, to full annotated wireframe documents.
Mozilla | Mountain View, CA | May ’10 – Aug. ’10
Designed and prototyped Firefox Home Tab. Researched and presented perceived performance for the Firefox startup process.
I.U. Communications | Bloomington, IN | Jan. ’09 – Aug. ’09
Designed and prototyped a campus-wide emergency system for IU. Created front-end code for multiple websites. Critiqued and implemented improvements to current websites.
Cerner | Kansas City MO | June ’08 – Aug. ’08
Prototyped and tested designs for a hospital education administration system. Designed patient focused entertainment and education system.
I.U. Alumni Association | Bloomington, IN | Aug. ’06 – May ’08
Responsible for the creation, maintenance, and coding of 13,500 pages, 85 sites. Wrote web code in multiple languages.
Indiana University
Indiana University
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