Travis Lowdermilk
Principal UX Researcher at O'Reilly Media
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolTravis Lowdermilk is a Principal UX Researcher at Microsoft with a decade-long career helping teams use design-thinking, applied research, and Lean methods to build customer-centered software and AI experiences. Based in Seattle, he blends hands-on product design and research with teaching and authorship—he’s the author of The Customer-Driven Playbook and User-Centered Design and has supported interaction design courses at the University of Washington. His background spans UX design, database and application development, and systems administration, giving him rare fluency across research, prototyping, and production systems. At Microsoft he focuses on rethinking how organizations build software with AI, translating qualitative insights into practical product decisions. He brings a pragmatic, evidence-driven approach to unlocking product-market fit and improving developer and user workflows.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Human Computer Interaction, Master of Science (M.S.) Human Computer Interaction at DePaul UniversityB.S Business Administration Information Systems, B.S Business Administration Information Systems at California State University, Fresno
English
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Github contributions (5)
devdivuxr/devdivuxr.github.io
Aug 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:43 pushes in 12 days
tlowdermilk/cde
Aug 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:14 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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