Hi, I'm Wes. I’m currently supporting marketing and design efforts as a senior ux designer at the open source enterprise software company Red Hat. I also freelance local gigs from time to time. Occasionally, I get outside.

Work

I apply user-centered design and systems thinking to untangle complex problems. Always collaborating. Reusing where possible and questioning boundries often. I aspire to empower other designers to unblock themselves and make their own informed decisions.

Work samples

🌳 Web design

Check out 17 online presences I spruced up. For personal projects, I code and design them; otherwise, it’s collaborating with devs.

✂️ Research

Orchards require pruning. Websites require maintenance. Read a few examples of user research I contributed to.

Work status

Currently

Red Hat: Sr. UX designer specializing in hairy, system-based projects on redhat.com like navigation. Also, ux research and ops.

Before that

iMarket Solutions: 1st designer at Vermont startup. Designed 200+ sites for HVAC & plumbing companies. Spearheaded design ops and research initiatives.

Way before that

Brady People ID: Where I cut my teeth in typography, color, layout, and print.
Fidelity: Where I leaped from print to the web design & dev.
⚔️ Freelance: Where I dove deep into web work with agencies and clients directly.

Previous, local collabs: AALV (Association of Africans Living in Vermont), Pine Island Community Farm: A Farm for New Americans, Green-up Vermont, Burlington’s Code for America brigade.

Lists of note

Cultural inputs

Edible perennials in my yard

Web homages to books

Radical comics library | Wobblies graphic novel: timeline | A People’s History of the US: CSS book cover | Be Here Now: CSS book cover.