Hi. I'm Nate.

Product Manager/Design Leader with 20+ years of experience driving the planning, production, and shipment of innovative and cohesive UX deliverables across multiple releases, platforms, and devices.

Focused of supporting great people, products, and processes through developing and growing design systems across large portfolios of products.

Effective leader skilled in setting best practices, developing teams, and bridging efforts among cross-functional partners. Adept at leveraging research and user data to develop simple, elegant solutions that drive engagement and customer satisfaction.


Experiences & Examples

2023

Professional
Shoelace Design Kit

The Shoelace Design Kit is a set of Figma components to support the Shoelace Component Library.

2022

Professional
NI Design System III

It was time for our next design system for our new brand. This new system focused on our web-based portfolio of products. I led our newly formed team to create, evangelize and prioritize our system for our clients.

2021

Personal
Perfect Wires

A small, personal project to dynamically draw wires between objects. Developed as an open source project.

2020

Publication
Adobe XD Ideas Article

Adobe reached and asked me to share my experiences on bringing designers and engineers together to develop a powerful design system.

2020

Professional
NI Design System II

NI underwent a significant re-brand and all of our products would be impacted by the new visual aspects of that brand. For us, that meant we needed to start looking at ways to update our entire portfolio of products that spanned multiple platforms, built with modern and not so modern architectures.

2019

Publication
Hack the Design System Book

I was honored to be interviewed for and cited in this book on how to approach design systems published by Idean.

2018

Personal
BuildString

Creating a social place to share what you're building...one step at a time.

2017

Professional
NI Design System

The starting point for the design system at NI. We had already made a portfolio of products and we needed to centralize the information of our system.

2015

Professional
NI Package Manager

Collaborating with stakeholders to create a design strategy for package management for NI.

2012

Professional
LabVIEW Palette

Re-inventing a long held part for our product platform. A feature design of the palette for coding in NI's LabVIEW IDE.

2011

Professional
Process Evolution

Every process depend on the culture of your environment. That environment is continually changing. Our process needed to evolve with it. These are the product of iterating on UX process during my first few years at NI.

2010

Professional
First Choice Power

Modernizing the design of a local energy provider.

2009

Professional
Amelia Concept

Creating a concept for the future of enterprise storage management

2008

Professional
Dell Support Center

Unifying separate support applications in a single, modern experience for Dell consumers.

2007

Professional
Dell DataSafe

Creating a desktop application to backup user data to the cloud. Well, the 2007 version of the "cloud". :)