Summary
John Cassidy is a Staff Product Designer based in New York with a decade of experience shaping large-scale consumer and experimental products across Google, YouTube, Jigsaw, and Area 120. He blends product design leadership with hands-on craft, having led design for Google Research incubations and co-created Area 120 projects before taking on staff roles at YouTube. His background spans agency work to in-house research teams, giving him a rare fluency in shipping polished interfaces while navigating ambiguous, research-driven problem spaces. Trained as a BFA graphic designer and later upskilled in front-end development, he often bridges visual design and engineering trade-offs to accelerate delivery. Colleagues know him for turning exploratory ideas into pragmatic product directions that scale across complex platforms.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Wayne State University
Michigan State University
Mott Community College
Front-End Development, Front-End Development at General Assembly
BFA, Graphic Design, BFA, Graphic Design at College for Creative Studies