Jeff Hoefs
UX UXE Design Manager at Google
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJeff Hoefs is a UX/UXE Design Manager in San Francisco with 15 years of experience designing and prototyping connected digital and physical products, currently leading a team shaping foundational Wear OS experiences at Google. He blends user research, interaction design, hardware and software prototyping, and experience design to shepherd concepts from early research through polished product. His work spans major consumer brands—Motorola, LG, Google, HP, Vodafone and Panasonic—plus interactive installations that reflect his art-and-technology roots. Beyond visual and interaction design, Jeff contributes to embedded and IoT toolchains in open-source projects like openFrameworks and firmata.js, improving Arduino integrations and serial communications. He also taught prototyping in an MFA IxD program, signaling a commitment to mentoring and craft. That mix of studio practice, systems-level embedded work, and platform-scale product design gives him a rare fluency across pixels, hardware, and code.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Fine Art, Computer Animation, Intermedia, Fine Art, Computer Animation, Intermedia at Arizona State UniversityUniversity of California Santa Cruz
Japanese
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Github Skills (17)
javascript10
firmata10
c-language10
sys10
embedded10
serial-communication10
cprogramming-language10
arduino10
jes9
testing9
opencv9
jtest9
coding8
nodejs8
opengl7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
firmata/firmata.js
Aug 2014 - Jun 2017
JavaScript implementation of the Firmata protocol
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Embedded Systems Engineer
Back-end Developer & Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:13 commits, 9 PRs, 13 pushes in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Jeff contributed to the JavaScript implementation of the Firmata protocol. They focused on improving the serial communication and interaction with Arduino boards. Contributions include implementing serial port configuration, data reading, and writing features, along with refactoring to enhance the parsing logic within the Firmata protocol. Their work involved modifying both the core library code and related test files to add new serial functionalities and refine existing ones.
firmatajavascript
openframeworks/openFrameworks
Dec 2010 - Oct 2011
openFrameworks is a community-developed cross platform toolkit for creative coding in C++.
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 2 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Jeff primarily contributed to the `openFrameworks` library, specifically focusing on the `ofArduino` module. Their work involved updating and maintaining the servo functionality, ensuring compatibility with various Firmata versions (2.2 and later), and addressing related bugs. They also updated the example applications to use the corrected `ofArduino` methods and event listeners.
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