Jon Newman
Principal Product Designer at Fortell
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJon Newman is a Principal Product Designer with 11 years of experience shaping digital products across startups and tech giants, currently leading product design at Fortell after a four-year stint as a Senior Interaction Designer at Google. Based in New York but originally from Houston, he blends a lifelong visual intuition—he started using Photoshop at nine—with hands-on web engineering fluency in TypeScript to make interfaces both beautiful and behaviorally reliable. His background spans consumer brands and collaborative platforms (Casper, Vowel, ustwo, Mashable, R/GA), giving him a rare fluency in brand systems, interaction detail, and cross-functional product delivery. Known for shipping pragmatic, web-first experiences, Jon pairs pixel-level craftsmanship with an engineer’s mindset to turn complex product constraints into elegant, usable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts Visual Communication Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts Visual Communication Design at Virginia Tech
Github Skills (79)
mobx-state-tree10
knockout10
react-spring10
animation10
functional10
observable10
react-hooks10
mobx10
typescript10
mvvm10
listener10
state-management10
react10
tilt10
javascript9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jonbnewman/use-prompt
Jan 2022 - Jan 2022
Contributions:1 release, 211 commits, 192 pushes in 11 days
footworkjs/footworkjs.com
Apr 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:293 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 4 months
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