Hello!

My name’s Jacob, and I want to be your new designer.

I'm a multi-disciplinary designer with some serious skill points in UI design and user empathy, keen visual acuity, boundless creativity, and a very wide skillset. I have a fiery passion for elegant and efficient interfaces, and a deep love of user-centered design, and I believe that nothing could be more satisfying than improving the lives of others through design.

  • Bachelor’s of Science in Marketing with a Minor in Industrial Design from Georgia Tech.

  • Certificate in UX/UI Design, also from Georgia Tech.

  • Instructor of UX/UI for Georgia Tech Professional Services.

  • Expert in Adobe Creative Suite - including Adobe XD, Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere, InDesign.

  • Expert in Figma, and considerable experience with Sketch and Zeplin.

  • Highly adept with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript programming languages, knowledge of Bootstrap and jQuery frameworks, and some experience with SQL and Circuit Python.

  • Significant experience in product photography using CaptureOne in a professional studio.

  • Exceptional ability in the visual arts, and an artist of many mediums - including, but not limited to - glassblowing, film photography, resin painting, watercolors, illustration, sketching, drafting, and wheel pottery.

SKILLS

Adobe CS, Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere, InDesign
Figma, Sketch, Miro, Figjam
HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap, SQL
GitHub, VS Code, Atom, Codepen, Zeplin, Dev Handoffs in Figma
SqaureSpace, WordPress, Shopify, Wix, Webflow
Product Photography, Capture One, Photo Retouching, Photo Manipulation, Stock Photography
Sketching, Rendering, Conceptualization, Icon Design
Microsoft Excel, XLSTAT
Extremely Convincing Salesman
Forklift-Trained
Eagle Scout
First Aid

 

Creating is what makes me happy. I love to sketch out my own designs, paint weird stuff, and sequence my Pocket Operators. As much as I love designing things, music is the best.