James Young
Principal UX Designer at Lab49
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Young is a Principal UX Designer with over three decades of hands-on design experience and 11 years in senior leadership roles, specializing in research-driven product strategy, design systems, and AI-enhanced workflows for B2B and B2C enterprise platforms. He partners with C-level stakeholders to modernize legacy systems, incubate GenAI features and APIs, and ship scalable, compliant SaaS and financial applications on time and within budget. Known for building design-to-development capabilities—from single contributor initiatives to multi-person teams—he has led award-winning cloud-native UI modernization and mobile chatbot experiences. James combines lateral thinking with pragmatic prototyping and GTM savvy, often using emergent AI tools to accelerate decision-making and stakeholder alignment. Based in Boston, he also brings a creative background (BA in Fine Art) and an early patent in conversational booking interfaces, reflecting a long-standing interest at the intersection of design, technology, and innovation.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Fine Art, Bachelors Fine Art at Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at The George Washington University
Github Skills (41)
free-download10
arrows10
sketch9
figma4
css4
adobe-xd4
ux-design3
grids2
carbon-design-system2
matching2
technical-writing2
fill2
microsoft2
design-tokens2
zeplin2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jydesign/Sketch-Hunt_Arrows-and-Lines-Pack
Sep 2016 - Dec 2018
Contributions:17 commits, 1 PR, 15 pushes in 2 years 4 months
arrowshuntlinespacksketch
jydesign/Sketch-Library-Thumbnail-Preview-Icon-Template
Oct 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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