Adam O'hern
Sr Staff Experience Designer at Adobe
Alexandria, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolAdam O'hern is a senior staff experience designer with 11 years of professional experience blending industrial design, product visualization, and software-enabled workflows across companies like Apple and Adobe. He co-founded Swatchbook to streamline CMF (color/material/finish) specification and sourcing, demonstrating a rare combination of design thinking, business modeling, and hands-on systems building (AWS, REST APIs, iOS). His work spans R&D at Bose, product design at Black & Decker, teaching at Otis College, and public-facing design advocacy through podcasts and training—skills that make him equally comfortable sketching a concept, shipping a digital product, or mentoring multidisciplinary teams. Adam holds an MSt in History of Design from Oxford and a BFA in Industrial Design, which informs a thoughtful, research-driven approach to experience problems. He donates 10% of his gross annual compensation to effective non-political causes, reflecting a long-standing commitment to ethical impact and environmental stewardship. Based in Alexandria, VA, he currently designs for Adobe Project Neo, where he applies deep craft and systems thinking to shape next-generation creative tools.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BFA, Industrial Design, Cum Laude, Outstanding Senior, BFA, Industrial Design, Cum Laude, Outstanding Senior at Columbus College of Art & DesignMaster of Studies (Mst), History of Design, Distinction, Master of Studies (Mst), History of Design, Distinction at Oxford University
English, c, html+css, python, swift
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (3)
rendering7
querypath6
scripting4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Pixel-Fondue/mecco_renderMonkey
Nov 2015 - May 2018
Super-simple progressive rendering for MODO
Contributions:11 releases, 110 commits, 40 pushes in 2 years 6 months
rendering
adamohern/good_kitty
Dec 2016 - Jun 2017
lxu.command.BasicCommand wrapper for typical MODO commands
Contributions:1 release, 62 commits, 57 pushes in 6 months
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