Hey, I'm Phil!
I’m a multi-disciplinary designer building digital products. I’m used to fast-paced environments on cross-functional teams. I prefer the startup life.
I consider myself a philomath. I love playing sports & games, biking, and reading. I grew up in Wisconsin, explored California for 6 years, and currently live in NYC.
Career hits: vol 1
- + 4 startups
- + 9 years experience
- + Graphic ➝ Web ➝ Product designer
- + 3.5 years remote experience
- + Stages from seed ➝ Series-C
- + Hospitality, DTC, & On-demand
For hire
Build creative products, on a small talented team, designing with high quality standards, helping achieve a meaningful mission while learning along the way.
- + Based in New York City
- + Designers wear many hats
- + Real strategy & product impact
- + Small-team working style
- + Outcomes > Output > Process
- + Solid leadership
- ⟞ Didn't attend a prestigious design school
- ⟞ Haven't worked at FANG company
- ⟞ Don't have a design specialty
- ⟞ At times I trust my gut over data
- ⟞ No design awards
Get sh*t done
As a generalist, I can help across the entire product development process. For speciality-related activities I can collaborate, contract out, or learn along the way.
- ⟞ Research / Interviews
- ⟞ Brand identity
- ⟞ Visual design
- ⟞ Product strategy
- ⟞ Experience design
- ⟞ Interface design
- ⟞ Marketing sites
- ⟞ Copywriting
- ⟞ Application prototyping
- ⟞ Development
- ⟞ Documentation
Discover
- + Research
- + Analysis
- + Requirements
Finding the right problem to solve. Keeping the business, product, & customer needs in mind.
- + Document
- + Map
- + Scope
Setting the direction to address the problem. Keeping product strategy, current roadmap, & team in mind.
- + Ideate
- + Experiement
- + Design UX & UI
- + Propose
Creating the solution(s) that are desirable, viable, and feasible.
- + High-fidelity
- + Update design systems
- + Development
- + Test
Implementing the designs, testing & delivering solutions to the market.
Projects
Illustrations
Quick hits
past
work
FORM Kitchens - contract
Designer & developerWheelhouse - full-time
Product designerLyric Hospitality - part-time
Product designeriCracked
Graphic & web designerrole
Product Designer
Web designer
Graphic designer
education
Applied Complexity
Course on complex systemsMakerSquare
Development immersiveWestern Technical
Associate's Degree - Graphic DesignUW – La Crosse
Liberal Arts - dropped outpresent.
Working
TokenTax - full-time
Product designerLiving
Williamsburg
Brooklyn, NYActivity
Running
Try to hit the streets of NYC a few times a weekCity Biking
on my Fuji Feather bike 🚲future
role
Computational designer
Bridging pixels & codeliving
New York City & Madison
Mostly NYC though 🍎traveling
Ireland, Scotland & Wales
The first of many int'l tripsThis site