Hey, I'm Dave. I make complicated products feel obvious.
Senior Product Designer in Portland, Oregon. Over a decade. Millions of users. Still obsessing over the details.
I'm a Senior Product Designer in Portland with over a decade of experience across consumer, enterprise, and B2B SaaS.
Personal Projects
Tools I Built for Real Problems
Three small apps built for specific problems in my own life and the lives of people I care about.
Act-On Software
AI Subject Line Optimizer
Designing Act-On's first customer-facing generative AI feature: a subject line analyzer that uses each account's own performance history to generate personalized alternatives.
Sparta Science
Groups: Putting Data in Context
Designing a way for Sparta Science users to compare individual performance against meaningful peer groups rather than the entire dataset.
TripIt
COVID-19 Guidance
Designing a centralized, digestible source of COVID-19 travel restrictions inside TripIt so travelers could stop hunting across government sites.
TripIt
Safety Personalization
Designing a personal risk threshold system inside TripIt so travelers could set their own safety preferences and get alerted when destinations exceeded them.
TripIt