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Well, hello there!

My name is Jake. I am a UX designer with over a decade of experience in brand design, brand strategy, UI/UX and application design.

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Things I've
made

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Digital GI Bill

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Natural Resource and Conservation Services

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Career Action Portal

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Facebook for Developers

Reimagining the developer platform for one of the world's most controversal brands.

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Office of Technology
Transitions

Re-skinning the OTT's outdated, bloated, and confusing website.

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Yardbird

A brand identity for a new rotisserie chicken restaurant.

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Building Bridges

Creating an identity for a non-profit supporting the community of Anacosita.

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Sysifix

An app that makes it easy for new homeonwers to manage their home.

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Everything else

A random dump of designs and documentaries I've made.

Things I've
written

Where there’s a will,
there’s porn.

Every year we launch products assuming users will follow the instructions, but predicting all the ways we will use new technology is impossible. The top two uses of the internet have always been pornography and spell-checking — two things we had well before Tim changed everything.

The luxury
of self-control.

Growing up we’ve been taught that self-control is a test of willpower, determination, and sacrifice. In fact, self-control is an indulgence.

Your mouth says yes,
but your sanity says no.

Saying yes is a euphoric and rewarding experience. But we need to say yes with more discretion.

Welcome. Make
yourself uncomfortable.

Since 2016, the top ten grossing movies each year have been either sequels or franchise films because they are guaranteed to be successful — but they’re rarely the movies that move culture forward.

Fight, flight or freeze:
The modern approach
to modern threats.

In modern times, the things we fear have become so constant rather than immediate that we don’t fight or flee — we freeze.

It's a lot of work
to look this simple.

We want to make fewer decisions because decisions take energy. But ease and simplicity are two separate things. Simple isn’t easy. Simple takes sacrifice.