Scott Criswell is a Principal Design Consultant in Portland with 25+ years blending design leadership, product strategy, brand, and front-end engineering into a single integrated practice. He builds design teams and systems—most notably co-creating Optics, an open design system and Design Engineering workflow that turned prototype code into production across client engagements. Comfortable both as an embedded leader and a hands-on IC, he drives cross-disciplinary collaboration so designers own outcomes and engineers develop design instincts. He champions AI-augmented workflows while insisting that taste and judgment remain central to craft. His background ranges from shipping multi-platform products at HarperCollins to co-founding design for the Aurelia ecosystem, revealing a rare mix of executive vision and deep implementation fluency.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Religion, Religion at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary
OpenStudio is a cross-platform collection of software tools to support whole building energy modeling using EnergyPlus and advanced daylight analysis using Radiance.
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Scott Criswell - Principal Design Consultant at Criswell Design