Nicholas Davidson
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Davidson is a Design Director and creative leader with 10 years of focused UX/UI and experience design work, currently leading XD at AKQA in San Francisco. He has driven high-impact redesigns and product experiences for clients across technology, healthcare, finance, and consumer brands including IBM, Cisco, Verily, John Deere and T‑Mobile. Comfortable leading teams and pitches, he blends hands-on visual craft with strategic UX thinking—scaling design systems and mentoring designers across agency and freelance settings. His career traces everything from launch work on Microsoft Surface and Levi’s projects to end-to-end platform overhauls, showing a rare fluency between pixel-level detail and enterprise product strategy. Known for a dry design wit (“I am whitespace insensitive”), he pairs creative rigor with pragmatic delivery on complex, cross-functional programs.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Graphic Design, Bachelor's degree Graphic Design at Savannah College of Art and Design
English
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Github Skills (4)
d3js7
ruby6
mobile-first4
in-place1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ndavidsonsf/phase-0-tracks
May 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:179 PRs, 149 pushes, 77 branches in 2 months
ndavidsonsf/ndavidsonsf.github.io
Nov 2016 - Jun 2018
Contributions:12 PRs, 12 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 7 months
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