Tommy Payne
AI Design Consultant at TP.AI
San Francisco, California, Australia
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Top SchoolTommy Payne is an AI design consultant and product designer with 11 years of experience creating consumer experiences that reach over a billion screens worldwide. Formerly a product design lead at Apple (tvOS, TV App, and Journal), he blends storytelling, interaction design, and product strategy to take ideas from 0-1 to polished, widely used products. He co-founded a generative AI design studio, Salon D'Artificiel, and now runs TP.AI, applying creative systems thinking to AI-driven content and luxury design. Educated at NYU ITP, he pairs creative coding and rapid prototyping skills with a deep editorial sensibility honed on global campaigns and App Store strategy. A seasoned collaborator and recruiter ambassador for inclusion at Apple, he’s equally comfortable sketching flows, shipping prototypes, or art directing complex cross-disciplinary teams. Notably, he presented at WWDC 2019 on content-first tvOS experiences, reflecting a long-standing focus on media-rich interactions.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Ideas, conceptual thinking, being alive, Ideas, conceptual thinking, being alive at Award SchoolM.P.S. Interactive Telecommunications, Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia innovation, M.P.S. Interactive Telecommunications, Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia innovation at New York UniversityBA, Behaviroual Science, PR and Marketing, BA, Behaviroual Science, PR and Marketing at The University of Notre Dame AustraliaDiploma, Graphic Design, Diploma, Graphic Design at RMIT University
Github Skills (2)
music5
spring4
Github contributions (5)
tommyfriday/iMusic-ITP-2015
Feb 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:12 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
tommyfriday/printing-code-projects
Sep 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:15 pushes in 4 months
pythonprinting
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