Award-winning Product UX
Xerox: Iterative rapid prototyping and modern design ops in legacy teams; award-winning results.
Interactive Engagement Experiences
PepsiCo: Interactive mutli-device experiences strengthening sales funnels.
Multiplatform Gaming Innovation
MSM: Designing and leading a unique gaming experience generating leads and engaging users.
Scaling Product/Design Ops
WAE: Designing and launching a new startup while delivering user satisfaction improvements.
Experience Design That Delivers
Hiring UX shouldn’t feel like bluffing through a foreign language. Innovate faster with a user-centered experience design practice with a service mindset and data-driven feedback loops.
- Scalable balance across discovery, research and active development.
- Process playbooks, Figma support, rapid prototyping workflows, and agile rituals to shape team culture from day one.
- UX-first staffing support and recruiter resources in plain language without the techy buzzwords and jargon.
Systems That Scale
Investing in the UX of systems/ops helps me build the trust and tooling to turn a source of friction into your team’s secret weapon.
- Maintain clarity and alignment across research, design, and dev with automated and AI-enhanced systems.
- Scalable discovery and delivery flows, Figma design systems and governance models.
- Documentation systems (Notion, Storybook, Zeroheight) that stay useful and organized. No more Slack archaeology!
Leadership That Drives Change
Experienced leadership to audit operations, lead high-impact workshops, or provide strategic advisory and resources.
- The UX Leverage Audit quantifies impact and growth pathways for human-centered innovation culture in your org.
- Quickly execute on ideas with the MVP Sprint, a collaborative workshop leading stakeholders and teams from ideation to real user data in a week.
- Build and maintain momentum with low-overhead arrangements including fractional consulting, advisory retainers, and embedded support.
What Others Are Saying
From startups to enterprise teams like Apple, Verizon, and Xerox; here’s what they have to say:
David could always be counted on to deliver unique solutions. In one instance; he is an outstanding problem solver.
Trish Terrance
UX Research, Xerox
David has proven to be a great team player, coordinator, and facilitator in organizing Upstate UX. He also formed and successfully ran the Crashtest group, and was absolutely instrumental in helping it achieve the success and praise it now sees.
Sean Boyle
Senior Lecturer @ RIT
Dave has a special ability to build communities of designers and help others create cool things. I have benefited a ton from his User Experience group Upstate UX. I feel lucky to know someone who creates such amazing resources for the community.
Jennifer Kotler
UX Designer @ Space Telescope Institute