John Choura
Principal Interactive Designer at Bueno
Long Beach, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Choura is a Principal Interactive Designer with 11 years crafting brand and product experiences that challenge the status quo, currently shaping Retool’s interactive systems. He blends design systems, brand experience, and design technology to move ideas from concept to polished execution across enterprise and consumer products, with prior leadership roles at PayPal, GoDaddy, and Happy Money. As owner of John.Design Studio he continues to take selective freelance projects, keeping a hands-on practice alongside corporate design leadership. He’s taught design at the university level, signaling a commitment to mentorship and rigorous craft. Based in Long Beach, he’s equally comfortable deep in system-level thinking and shipping delightful front-end interactions — in short, a design leader who makes stuff on the internet with an engineer’s practicality.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BFA Graphic Design, BFA Graphic Design at Biola University
Github Skills (117)
mobile-development10
parallax10
framer-motion10
javascript10
app-framework10
html10
netlify10
cross-platform10
cal10
android10
mobile10
ios10
react-native10
bootstrap10
css10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
johnchourajr/john.design
Dec 2016 - Dec 2022
My personal site
Contributions:296 commits, 70 PRs, 608 pushes in 6 years
framer-motionreactnextjsnetlify
johnchourajr/thegrandlb
Jul 2018 - Jun 2026
The Grand LB Website
Contributions:114 PRs, 646 pushes, 96 branches in 7 years 11 months
jekyllgrand
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