About

👋🏻 Hi I’m Jayson

I’m a senior product designer based outside of Raleigh, North Carolina. I am passionate about building highly usable, visually stunning websites and apps. I pride myself on my ability to clearly communicate ideas and find elegant solutions to complex problems.

Background

• 10+ years as an individual contributor in agency and SaaS settings.

• Worked closely with higher-ed orgs, non-profits, startups and more.

Skills

• Highly proficient in Figma

• Clearly communicating design ideas with clients

• Design systems thinking

• Visual precision

Achievements

• Wrote a series of blog posts detailing the design process at Savas Labs, with a focus on educating clients and new designers. See:

  • Mastering Moodboards

  • Spectrum Polls

  • Choosing Photos for your Website

  • Choosing Colors for your Website

  • How to Design an Icon System

• Led an entire website design project from start to finish including:

  • Project timeline and meeting scheduling

  • All client communications

  • All wireframe work

  • Visual direction workshop

  • All visual design

  • Completion and handoff of the design system

  • Communication and art direction for a third-party animator

Education

• BFA Graphic Design - 2013, Appalachian State University

In my free time

• I love science fiction, video games, TTRPGs, hiking, building things, working outside, and my two dogs.

My philosophy on AI

AI should be a tool to help humans enhance their abilities and learn new skills.

Art, in all its forms, is a uniquely human experience; the struggle of honing a skill is core to the growth of that experience.

I believe in the pursuit of the betterment of one’s craft through practice, failure, and determination: a process which AI is fundamentally incapable of.

Therefore, I believe strongly that ai-generated content should never be delivered to the end-user.