About
Hello! I’m Sean.
My professional mission is to make computing better for human creativity. I’m deeply interested in, and often write about, issues related to creative tools, tools for thought, the open web, designer-developer workflows, human-computer interaction, and anything related to making computing more inclusive, empowering, creative and convivial.
Currently, I’m the Director of Design Engineering at Adobe, where I have the privilege of leading teams of design engineers who prototype new product experiences and build Adobe’s design system, Spectrum.
In the past I have:
- Built real-time collaboration and accessibility features for Adobe Express
- Managed layout and accessibility engineering teams working on Firefox
- Built web-based tools for making animated VR and AR comics at Madefire
- Led prototype engineering inside Adobe’s Design Studio
- Developed chat and instant messaging applications at AOL Userplane
I’m originally from California, and live with my wife and kids in the San Francisco bay area. I studied computer science at UCLA and at the (radically interdisciplinary and sadly now shuttered) Arts Computation Engineering program at UC Irvine.
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Needless to say, views and opinions expressed on this site are purely my own and not representative of my employer.