Adam Kaplan
Product Designer at zapier
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Kaplan is a product designer with 13 years of experience crafting user-centered interfaces and experiences, most recently at Zapier where he progressed from Product Designer to Senior Product Designer. Based in Chicago, he blends a strong visual sensibility from a BA in Film and Video Editing with deep product thinking to translate complex workflows into intuitive UIs. His background spans design and front-end engineering roles, giving him a practical edge in shipping polished, implementable solutions. He’s comfortable working on cross-functional teams to align product strategy, interaction design, and engineering constraints. Known for scaling designs across automation-focused products, he brings a pragmatic approach to balancing usability with engineering trade-offs. Colleagues note his knack for storytelling through design—an underappreciated skill rooted in his film editing training.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts in Film and Video Editing, Bachelor of Arts in Film and Video Editing at Columbia College Chicago
Github Skills (8)
responsive-design10
zapier9
jekyll7
nodejs6
cli6
documentation5
sdk5
javascript-tools2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
aekaplan/grid
Aug 2015 - Jul 2018
A simple guide to responsive design.
Contributions:4 commits, 4 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 years 11 months
responsive-design
aekaplan/aekaplan.github.io
Jan 2013 - Jun 2020
Contributions:264 commits, 5 PRs, 77 pushes in 7 years 6 months
jekyll
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