Profile

I’m Noam Almosnino, a passionate designer and front-end developer who’s helped bring to life many innovative products and interfaces over the past decade. I hold a BFA in graphic design from FIT in New York, and specialise in UI design, UX design, and UI development. I worked at Adobe for more than 6 years before launching my first startup, Ottifox WebVR Studio. I then moved to Iceland in 2018 to work with the talented folks at Aranja Studio in Reykjavík. Today, I have the pleasure of helping make the web a better place at Automattic!

Experience

Automattic / Senior Product Designer

2021—Present

Aranja / UX Design & UI Development

2018—2021

Ottifox WebVR Studio / Founder

2016—2018

Adobe / Lead Product Designer

2014—2016

Adobe / Interaction Designer

2010—2014

Brooklyn Botanic Garden / Web Designer

2009—2010

Basik Group / Web & UI Designer

2007—2009

Specialties

Design

UX flows
Wireframing
User interviews
Usability tests
Personas
UI design
Design systems
UI motion sketches

Devlopment

React
Vue
HTML & CSS
Storybook
Typescript
Next.js
Three.js
Framer Motion

Design philosophy

Design should function with a clear purpose and move out of the way. A design should aim to work, rather than be special. Special requires more maintenance and unnecessary attention from viewers. Not to be confused with boring, as the design still requires inviting the user in. Design, especially in regards to UX and usability, is a hypothesis that requires validation.

Colophon

Designed and built in Iceland. Using Next.js, Styled System, Framer Motion, React Three Fiber, Figma, and fonts by Klim Type Foundry, hosted on Vercel. With big thanks to Aranja and Connor Holyday.

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