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    ABOUT

    Hi, I’m Skot.

    You may know me as that guy on LinkedIn who is angry about bad software. Now you can hire me to help you make your software less bad.

    For 13 years, I led a team of 40 ridiculously talented designers, engineers, and strategists at Philosophie Group. There, we worked with clients ranging from startups to Fortune 500 to launch over 300 web and mobile applications.

    In 2022 I left my post as CEO to return to the work I love the most: working with founders to build cool stuff that solves real problems.

    I go by “The UX Architect” because it’s the thing that I do uniquely well. At my agency, my role was often to figure out what our clients actually needed and translate it to designers and developers. I’ve probably spec’d and sketched over 1000 apps.

    I’m passionate about design education, and throughout my career I’ve taught design and entrepreneurship at institutions including General Assembly, UCLA Anderson, and NYU Stern.

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    Amazon
    American Express
    BCGDV
    Citi Ventures
    Facebook
    Google
    Nike Valiant Labs
    AARP
    American Family Insurance
    Aon
    Capital Group
    Capital One
    Coop Financial
    Cowgirl Creamery
    Enervee
    Flight Club
    Fullscreen
    Goldman Sachs
    Kabbage
    Kobe Inc
    Nintendo

    Nissan
    Obvious
    One Sothebys
    Planned Parenthood
    Prudential
    PwC
    Qantas Airlines
    Royal Carribean
    SAG-AFTRA
    Science37
    Shell Greenlots
    Supercell
    UC Berkeley
    UCLA
    Virginia Tech
    Voodoo Games
    W Hotels
    Warner Media
    WeWork
    Young Money Entertainment

    Select Talks / Teaching

    • The Future is Dark, World Usability Conference, 2019
    • Experiment-Driven Design, Agile2018, 2018
    • Design as Strategy, NELAUX, 2017
    • EDD in the Enterprise. Lean Startup Week, 2017
    • UCLA Anderson Design Thinking Seminar, 2016–2019
    • Describing Designs. SF UX Designers, 2016
    • Creating an Objective Visual Strategy. Evenings at the Loft, 2015
    • Balancing with Clients, Balanced Team Summit, 2015
    • Designing, Technically. General Assembly, 2014

    Select Publications

    • When You Need a Product-Design Reality Check with Users. UX Matters, 2018
    • Where Do Design and Business Strategy Meet? Design Thinking. Boxes and Arrows, 2018
    • How to Create a Culture of Design Thinking. Print, 2018
    • Introducing Experiment-Driven Design. InfoBeans Blog, 2017
    • The Cost of Growth. Medium, 2017
    • Software Engineers are People. Medium, 2017
    • Can design leaders innovate in the enterprise? Medium, 2017
    • Is Agile Planning the cure to the Hairy Back Syndrome? Medium, 2017
    • Why Lisn Lost: It Got the Design Right, but it Didn’t Get the Right Design. Entrepreneur, 2017
    • The Toast Principle of Product Design. Medium, 2016
    • Creating an Objective Visual Strategy. Medium, 2016

    Let’s make something.

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    SPRINT-BASED SOLUTIONS

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    One Week Wires
    One Week Research
    One Week Website
    One Month MVP

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    All-You-Can-Design

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