Summary
Aaron Salmon is a user experience designer and leader with 13+ years of professional experience and a 20-year trajectory of designing for high-stakes public and private contexts—from political campaigns and civic platforms to Pentagon mission command systems. He builds and scales design teams, design systems, and DesignOps practices that translate complex workflows into intuitive, adoptable digital and physical experiences, applying the same UX thinking to a downtown coffee-and-bike shop he co-owns. A strategic researcher and hands-on practitioner, Aaron has led global field research, vendor evaluation for an $800M defense portfolio, and product-to-implementation work including HTML/CSS frameworks and high-fidelity prototypes. He’s fluent at bridging stakeholder politics, engineering constraints, and user needs to enable cross-organization capability sharing and post-delivery evaluation. Outside of government and enterprise work he advises nonprofits on civic engagement and uses small-business operations as a living lab for service and spatial design.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Web Authoring & Publishing Certificate Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia, Web Authoring & Publishing Certificate Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia at Chippewa Valley Technical College
Multimedia Arts Certificate Program, Multimedia Arts Certificate Program at College of DuPage