Summary
Jimmy Chion is a multidisciplinary Staff UX Designer and front-end builder with 14 years of experience blending design, engineering, and product work across healthcare, journalism, automotive, and civic projects. He ships practical interfaces and tooling—most notably internal apps and photo workflows used at The New York Times—and has led product efforts from embedded circuit boards to responsive web apps. A former IDEO lead and Autodesk artist-in-residence, he pairs mechanical prototyping and PCB experience with strong UI development, holding multiple patents from his hardware work. He founded ballot.fyi, a viral civic project that reached a million readers and earned Knight Foundation support, and has taught interaction design internationally. Based in New York, he now applies his maker’s curiosity to health-focused front-end design at Google while balancing life as a designer-developer and dad.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Psychology, Bachelor's Degree Psychology at Stanford University