Scott Aikin
Staff Product Designer at FreeWill
Richmond, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Aikin is a Staff Product Designer with 14 years of cross-disciplinary experience blending research, design, engineering, and innovation to shape user-centered products. Based in Richmond, VA, he has led UX research and design efforts across consumer hardware, mobile accessories, automotive infotainment, and nonprofit-focused product teams at companies like Motorola, General Motors, Fellowes, Kalderos, and FreeWill. Known for bridging technology and human insight, he drives design quality end-to-end—translating ethnography and usability testing into producible solutions and measurable UX improvements. Scott’s background as a mechanical engineer and experience launching products into Apple and major retail channels give him a rare fluency in both physical product development and digital experience design. He often acts as the connector between research, QA, and engineering, ensuring design decisions survive the realities of manufacturing and large-scale software delivery.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MS Engineering Design and Innovation, MS Engineering Design and Innovation at Northwestern University
Github Skills (40)
spell9
controller9
editing8
ace-editor8
autocomplete8
php-class8
markdown7
firmware7
trigger7
bottom7
ace7
scroll7
code-editor7
makecode7
embeddable6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Hawkers/scrollAppend
Apr 2012 - Oct 2016
Contributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 4 years 7 months
scroll-toscrolljqueryjavascriptjquery-plugin
Hawkers/triggeredAutocomplete
Apr 2012 - Sep 2012
Triggers an autocomplete with a trigger character.
Contributions:13 commits in 5 months
charactertriggertriggersautocomplete
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