so nice to meet you
Hi, I'm Dave — a product design engineer with 15+ years building app experiences, from early iPhone apps to SaaS platforms serving millions.
I love prototyping in code, partnering with smart people, and making complex things feel simple. Thanks for checking out my work.
QuotaPath
An industry-leading sales commission SaaS platform
Led design across multiple product teams at this Series B SaaS platform — shipping new platform features monthly and designing the Compensation Hub from scratch, helping sales teams explore, compare, and customize commission plans.
Lead Product Designer
Highlights:
- Shaped, validated, and shipped platform features monthly — from comp modeling and onboarding flows to sandbox environments and payout workflows
- Designed and launched the Compensation Hub — a top-of-funnel commission plan library and modeling tool that drove $1.5M+ in new pipeline in a year
- Co-created and rolled out the Shape Up product process across 4 product and engineering teams, improving planning clarity and shipping cadence
- Partnered closely with engineering and product to ship cohesive, high-quality experiences
Rodio
Workforce communication for big retail
Led design from early ideas through revenue for this mid-size startup — concepting, facilitating design sprints, architecting UX flows, and shipping production-ready UI across native web, iOS, and Android.
Within two years, we partnered with Kronos (a Fortune-100 workforce management company) and signed MarketSource (the staffing agency for Target and Best Buy), reaching millions of daily interactions.
Product UX/UI Design Lead
Highlights:
- Led design for a 20-person product team across web, iOS, and Android
- Facilitated design sprints to define problems, brainstorm solutions, and prototype ideas
- Built and maintained a multi-platform design system spanning master, web, iOS, and Android component libraries
- Pitched the demo that closed our integration partnership with a Fortune-100
ux flows
pitch decks
rodio design system
BnbFinder
A platform for niche travel listings (now Savvy.com)
Led design and front-end development on this multi-vertical travel listings platform, starting with BnbFinder — a consumer app for travelers, a member app for property owners, and a back-office app for administrators.
Built the platform and first travel site from whiteboards to 8K subscribers (4K+ paid) in under a year with a team of 3.
Product UX/UI Design Lead + Front-End Dev
Highlights:
- Conceived, designed, and coded the full platform — consumer, owner, and admin apps — using Elixir, React/Next.js, and a custom Tailwind CSS framework
- Shipped fully responsive front-end apps across all three product surfaces
- Drove the agile process with Jira and Trello, presenting bi-weekly demos to management, sales, and marketing
BnbFinder design system
pitch decks
Accomplishments
30+ Products
Led design at an agency and multiple startups, shipping intuitive experiences across telemedicine, puzzle games, entertainment, interactive education, and travel.
Along the way I've learned how successful product teams work — design sprints, prototype validation, and agile iteration.
#1 iPhone App
Shortly after we launched the photo editing app for A Beautiful Mess (shown below), it shot to #1 in the iTunes App Store.
It held a spot in the top 100 paid apps for over a year, earning millions of downloads.
Millions of Users
Concepted and designed apps that earned millions of downloads for Ellen, A Beautiful Mess, Dancefight, and more.
Also built web apps that thousands of people rely on daily.
Rocket
A boutique digital agency
Co-founded and led design for this boutique digital agency — grown from a 2-person indie dev shop into a 20-person team over a decade. We specialized in concepting, prototyping, and building apps and websites for early-stage startups and household names.
Co-Founder + Product Designer + Front-End Developer
Highlights:
- Hired, managed, and grew a 20-person team across product, back-end, front-end, iOS, and Android
- Concepted, designed, and delivered custom apps and websites across 30+ client projects
- Managed sales, marketing, and accounts across dozens of engagements
- Designed and launched A Beautiful Mess — a #1 Paid iPhone App that stayed in the top 100 for over a year
- Designed and built a multi-million-dollar CRM/CMS platform for one of the largest US auto sales organizations
Timebomb
Lead Product DesignerA conditional messaging app
Co-founded and led design for this conditional messaging app (native iOS and Android), shipping from whiteboard sketches through a 2.0 release with a team of 10.
The hip, playful experience helped us raise $3M from angel investors including Katy Perry and Warner Bros., and land marketing partnerships with Ellen DeGeneres and Warner Bros.
Dancefight
Lead Product DesignerA social voting app
Consulted for this seed-round startup on UX flows and final UIs — onboarding and tutorials, the main feed, the voting UX, and tournament creation and brackets.
