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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.
Select Client List
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