John Finley
Principal Product Designer at Yahoo
Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Finley is a Principal Product Designer with 17 years of experience crafting human-centered, accessible experiences at scale, most recently leading design at Yahoo after senior roles at Shopify and a decade-plus tenure at Google. He specializes in translating AI-driven capabilities—like text-to-image generation and Search Generative Experience features—into everyday interactions that increase engagement and meet real user needs. Known for cross-functional collaboration, he blends rigorous UX craft with pragmatic prototyping across web, mobile, and in-room hardware ecosystems. His background spans interaction design, software development, and an MFA in Interaction Design, which informs a design practice grounded in both technical fluency and empathy. Notably, he has driven health-and-safety and distributed workspace initiatives at Google, demonstrating a track record of shipping high-impact features under complex constraints.
17 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Information Systems, Bachelor of Science Computer Information Systems at John Carroll UniversityMasters in Fine Arts Interaction Design, Masters in Fine Arts Interaction Design at School of Visual Arts
Github Skills (16)
raspberry10
bluetooth-low-energy10
bluetooth9
runner9
vscode-extension9
design-tokens9
usrp9
component-library8
typescript8
figma-plugin8
react8
shopify8
qt8
macos7
raspberry-pi7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jpfinley/heyfinley
Jan 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:4 PRs, 36 pushes, 18 branches in 9 months
javascriptreactonline-portfolio
jpfinley/printmaster
Sep 2010 - Mar 2011
Contributions:10 commits in 5 months
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