Praise from LinkedIn

Jeffery Reid

Leading Design, Product, Growth at Knowde.

Joel is a marvelously talented product designer who brings a great visual sensitivity and wealth of experience to every project. He has a deep understanding and appreciation of design systems, a great foundation in pattern-driven design and a nuanced sense of composition and layout.

If you'd like more details about working with him, please feel free to DM me. I'm happy to give Joel a personal recommendation.

Chris Mann

Principal Product Designer at Knowde

I had the pleasure of working closely with Joel to solve many complex problems and design simple, yet powerful interfaces. Joel has an incredible sense for great UX. He brings a very thoughtful point of view to every conversation and was integral to helping our team build great user experiences. Joel took on complex problems and delivered simple solutions that resonated with users. He also helped us build out our design system, which allowed us to design products faster and more efficiently. Joel is easy to collaborate with and a joy to work with. Any team would be lucky to have him.

Denis Somar

Senior Product Designer at Knowde

Any team that has the superpower of Joel's talents, is tremendous lucky to have the bounty of his thoughtfulness, expertise, capacity, and technique.

As part of Knowde's team, Joel was integral towards building foundational parts e.g. our Design System, complex tools, elegant onboarding flows, etc. while also attacking some of our most complex UX/UI problems. Knowde is the biggest chemicals search engine that lets you pivot results by thousands of technical and categorical attributes & facets. Joel owned and elevated our entire search experience. He’s both a great professional and fun to be around, one whom you wouldn't hesitate to partner with in terribly long meetings.

Joel is an incredible asset to any team and a great mentor to both new practitioners and senior leader who are acquainting themselves with the intricacies of design and product thinking.

Oakley Reid

Product Manager at Knowde

I had the pleasure of working with Joel directly and indirectly for a year. Joel is smart, detail-oriented, and extremely passionate about his work. He brings a rare level of depth to his design work and leverages his extensive expertise and past experience to ensure those around him are outcome-oriented and keep a product's goals front of mind. Aside from his talent, Joel is personable, hilarious, and collaborative-- he's both highly skilled and a fantastic coworker to have.

Corey Dangel

Executive Producer - Device and Services Design Group at Amazon

We gave Joel a tremendously ambitious project, betting on his history of clarifying rules and patterns and presenting them in a lovely manner, and he excelled. Joel quickly grasped the nuances of more than a dozen distinct pieces of hardware with an extreme variety of display constraints, interaction models, and principal use cases. He synthesized a mountain of information and organized it into a digestible structure that’s enabled dozens of disparate teams to elevate their products and drive alignment. In Amazon terms, Joel consistently showed strong Ownership and Bias for Action while Insisting on Highest Standards and Delivering Results. In Microsoft terms, Joel thrives in ambiguity and exhibits passion for innovation through great design. If you need a full-stack designer who can bring clarity to complexity and make it look good too, you should definitely talk with Joel.

Gil Colunga

Software Engineering Manager at Nordstrom

Joel worked with my engineering team for almost four months. Throughout this time, Joel was consistently great to work with, tackling all assignments with thoughtfulness, engagement and creativity. His energy, great attitude and overall interpersonal skills made him a great team member and highly regarded by the entire team.

It is very important to point out that Joel achieved everything I mentioned above while working in an application domain where he had little experience with. Throughout the project Joel went the extra mile to ensure he understood the nature of the information the system handles, as well as immerse himself with how our customers would use the tool. The result was an exquisite user experience, much better than we could have imagined at the start of the project. The user experience designed by Joel is one of the main factors why our customers want to use our system.

I highly recommend Joel for any user experience Job. He is a thoughtful, creative team player and would make a great asset to any organization.

Sincerely,
Gil Colunga
Engineering Manager
Nordstrom Technology

Eugene Gavriloff

Senior Design Developer Lead at Microsoft

As our UX Designer, Joel designed with passion, professionalism and a collaborative mindset. He’s a fast, skilled creative, and process-oriented LeanUX practitioner. I’d happily have him back on our team.

Kyle Wendt

Senior User Experience Designer at Microsoft

Joel and I worked closely together over the past year putting together feature designs for the second major release of the Microsoft Partner Center website. This release was focused on all-new features for Microsoft reseller partners, a very large user group responsible for a very large slice of revenue for Microsoft. Joel was one of the first designers on the scene for this release and was responsible for forging the foundation of many of the more complicated features and interactions that helped make this release a success, including user management, customer creation, subscription service management, and account settings.

Jonel Beach

Producer & Project/Account Manager worked with Joel at Aurasma

Working with Joel is a true pleasure. He is smart, attentive, creative and passionate about his work. He is quick to suggest enhancements to an existing concept - that are most often adopted by the client because he knows how to pitch it, too. 

He values deadlines & is a master of details. He has the heart & the mind to invent new & exciting content in order to continually "wow" enthusiasts in the (emerging) world of augmented reality. Joel excels at thinking outside the box, but is always well-mannered when he is asked to remain within pre-established parameters. Even his traditional graphic design skills stand up to the test of time.

His creativity, combined with his technical understanding and foresight make him a superstar on any creative team.

Aaron King

Senior Manager, Homepage Features at Amazon.com

Joel did a great job while working on several projects for AmazonFresh. He is detail oriented and meticulous. He was very professional and was able to put together a very comprehensive style guide for us and deliver numerous merchandising assets that enabled our marketing efforts.