Summary
Jeff Heppert is a Product Designer in San Francisco with 11 years’ experience crafting cross-platform experiences for hardware-infused products and consumer apps. He blends a Computer Science foundation with a BFA in Web Design & New Media to bridge design and implementation—regularly navigating codebases to make pragmatic design changes. His recent roles include Senior UX Designer at Apple and leadership positions at August Home and Nearside, where he built design systems, led launches for international hardware, and created tools (including a Figma plugin) to streamline engineering handoff. Jeff favors invisible interfaces—designs that fit naturally into people’s lives—and has deep hands-on experience documenting complex interactions between hardware, firmware, servers, and mobile apps. He’s equally comfortable mentoring teams and doing the detailed work of prototyping, specs, and QA, a habit rooted in a childhood curiosity for taking things apart to see how they work.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Web Design & New Media, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Web Design & New Media at Academy of Art University
English