Jason Short
Design Director at NETGEAR
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Short is a Design Director with 14+ years crafting product and service experiences that blend industrial design, sensor-driven hardware, and elegant software interfaces. He’s led design at companies from Fitbit/Google and GoPro to NETGEAR and startups, shipping consumer hardware (Hero 7, Solo) and AI-enabled health devices while building multidisciplinary teams. A hands-on designer who codes in C/C++, JavaScript and Python, Jason founded ArduPilot and contributed UI improvements to DroidPlanner/Tower, showing a rare mix of embedded systems, mobile UI, and open-source autonomy experience. He focuses on turning complex sensing and biomarker technology into delightful, usable products and is known for prototyping novel interactions like Smart Shots that have been widely copied.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Industrial Design, Industrial Design at University of Cincinnati
Github Skills (6)
user-interface10
ui-design10
android10
java7
javas7
kotlin7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
DroidPlanner/Tower
Oct 2013 - Jan 2014
Ground Control Station for Android Devices
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:77 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily worked on the UI of the DroidPlanner Android app. They implemented and refined UI components, including mission control buttons, parameters table rows, and a flight path. The commits show a focus on visual updates and improvements to various screen layouts, such as the RC setup, and modes setup screens. They also addressed usability issues, enhancing the overall user experience.
android-devicesground-control-stationandroidstationground
jason4short/WheelEncoder
Nov 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:2 commits in 1 day
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