Adam Torres
Principal Product Designer at Barre3, Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolAdam Torres is a principal product designer and design leader based in Salt Lake City with a decade-plus career crafting thoughtful interactions for Mac, iOS, and the web across companies like Podium, Slack, Apollo GraphQL, and Palantir. He’s a true generalist who blends interaction design, rapid user research, and hands-on coding to move products from vision to usable experience, with repeated promotions into VP roles that reflect his ability to align teams and strategy. Adam favors “quick and dirty” research methods to validate direction early, enabling faster iteration on the parts of design he cares about most. He also runs a small company, Barre3, demonstrating entrepreneurial grit alongside enterprise design leadership. Known for being collaborative and people-focused, he excels at synthesizing research, product goals, and engineering constraints into clear, actionable designs. His background in HCI and psychology informs a pragmatic, human-centered approach that prioritizes enabling users and teams.
7 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS Psychology, BS Psychology at Boise State UniversityMaster of Information Science Human-Computer Interaction, Master of Information Science Human-Computer Interaction at University of Michigan - School of Information
Github Skills (12)
graphql-tools10
apollo-server10
dgraph10
react9
rocket9
apollo-client9
apollo9
graphql8
apollographql8
netlify5
styled-components5
storybook2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (2)
apollographql/apollo
Apr 2019 - Jul 2019
:rocket: Open source tools for GraphQL. Central repo for discussion.
Contributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 2 pushes in 3 months
reactapollographqlgraphql-toolsrocketapollo-server
apollographql/space-kit
Jul 2019 - Sep 2019
👩🚀 Home base for Apollo's design system: https://space-kit.netlify.com
Contributions:2 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 2 months
reactstyled-componentsstorybookdesign-systemgraphql
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