Map of the local innovation industry.
Meet some of the best and newest startups based in Oakland.
Designer, Artist, and Typography Enthusiast. Effectively developing new and appropriate visual solutions to common and complex communications problems.
Founder of @cozyindustries, Former Apple, Life360. Strong product and design aesthetic
Entrepreneur, engineer, hustler, hacker, designer, yogi, musician and author.
http://bilalahmed.org
Founder of @Schizofriend.me • Editor & Structured Data Project Lead at @yahoo • Writer (portfolio: robochris.tumblr.com) • Drummer
Product Designer @lucid-design-group • Previously @awesomebox, @unified, @pagelever, @piecelock-70, @cavern-discos • @university-of-california-santa-cruz alumni
http://medium.com/irvinebroque
Founder & Pair Designer @pairdesignco, Founding Member of @designer-fund , Former Designer In Residence @500startups.
Current Director of User Experience @redbeacon,
Former User Experience Lead at @tripit,
Studied at @new-york-university
Creative Director @a-hundred-monkeys. Mentor @500startups. Author of dontcall.it/that. Formerly Brand Strategist @metadesign. @university-of-california-los-angeles design 2007.
CTO of CommitChagne. I am passionate about data, UX, and abstract systems. I enjoy working on meaningful projects with awesome tools in a team of good people.
@stanford-university Product Design. Full stack developer and entrepreneur @marker. Crowdsourcerer @crowdflower, consultant @instagram; ♥ sustainable food & ag.
UX Engineer at Wunwun. Previously Creative Director at Gracenote, Sony, Gravity Mobile, LiveJournal.
@appstores.com (acquired by InMobi), Ping.fm (acquired by @seesmic),Partner Engineer at @facebook, Product guy with UI/UX and coding chops.
Notre Dame '11 with the dream of helping Hollywood get on Silicon Valley's level.
UI / UX Design & Front-End Code
http://briandelaney.me/blog
Designing meaningful products that communicate brilliance and beauty to users.
http://www.tapefamous.com
Just a dude making it happen.
CDO of BriteHub. 14 years experience as an entrepreneur, designer, and front-end developer. Founded designer studio cypher13 and VP of Product for Tommaso bikes. CU Boulder BA 2003.
Product Designer
UI + UX + Product Design
http://gaugedesign.com
Co-founder of @rallyteam - Platform for employee empowerment. Founder of @saturna - tech consulting. Worked @oracle-1. Studied @university-of-calgary
Executive Director at Oakland Digital (ODALC.org). M.A, B.S, B.A | eMarketeer, creative strategist, and tech philanthropist. More shauntai.com and @shaun-tai.
http://www.odalc.org
Bay Area based Web Designer and Illustrator. 4 years industry experience with a background in print design. Hard-working, passionate, always looking to learn.
http://hannahswann.tumblr.com
Full Stack Developer & Visual Designer. Designer/Developer @inkshares. B.A. in Design from UC Davis, recently completed WDI Web Dev Bootcamp @general-assembly.
UX designer who is passionate about envisioning and prototyping intuitive experiences and applying lean UX approaches to produce minimum awesome products.
https://www.vizify.com/jeff-root
Interaction Design for the Public Good
http://www.twoangstroms.com
Product & design @prophecy-sciences, @bloodhound, @peerbetween. PhD @stanford University/SB @massachusetts-institute-of-technology. Prof. trained chocolatier.
Sales/BD @tradecraft
Product/design expertise in healthcare
Stanford engineering alum
passionate about social impact companies
Head of Business Development - Hackathon for PITME. Digital Media professional with a history in digital content and social media marketing.
http://mateotech.blogspot.com
Creative | Designer | Developer
http://matthewcopeland.me/blog
UC Berkeley, USC, worked in software in the medical device industry
Co-Founder, Dsg.nr. Stanford BS Mechanical Engineering. UCLA Anderson MBA. Restaurant Owner. 10+ Years Professional Designer: Interior, Product, Web & Graphic.
http://blog.dsg.nr
I am a business savvy product and UX designer. I enjoy designing engaging experiences and creating products that move the world forward.
www.jvghealthcare.com
Super creative, constant researcher, and love to play in online communities
Worked at @pokitdok, @frog-design • Studied at @stanford-university, @university-of-cincinnati
Former law student turned budding jr level front-end developer. Significant experience in Business Ops and Developer Relations. Excited and motivated to continually increase skills and learn new langauges. (HTML, CSS, Angular.js JavaScript, Jquery... even
UX Designer with deep experience with Visual Identity and Branding
http://www.rolfwilkinson.com
http://www.rolfwilkinson.com
Founder Thread Council, You're A Rebel
Worked at @live-nation, @cinder-block
Studied at @academy-of-art-university
A Unicorn in the wild. Full-stack dev, UX/UI design. Dreamy. Been in this game for years, it made me an animal.
Interaction and mobile designer with 5 years' experience. I excel in fast-paced startup environments in large and small companies.
http://blog.omaryak.net
Interaction design and graphics hacking for iOS, Web, Mac and Installation.
http://ccr.io
MIT Alumni, Online designer at UC Berkeley, extensive background in media content production with a skill for parsing and communicating complex ideas.
Business-Minded Interaction Designer/Developer
Develop / Design / User Experience
Front End / Node.js Developer with design talent. Builds real-time web applications, backend to frontend.
Director of Assessment, learning specialist, inventor. Books: "Engelbart Hypothesis: Dialogs w/ Douglas Engelbart" & "Developing an Effective Online Course"
UX/Product Designer - I design experiences for web and mobile applications.
http://www.ikon-eco.com/
Worked at @couchsurfing, @bittorrent • Studied at @purdue-university
Designer, developer, project manager
UX/UI designer with experience in consumer & enterprise applications and 8 years mobile UX (feature phones, iOS, Android, Responsive Design)
http://www.behance.net/wbboucher
Founder @txt2wrk • Worked at @frog-design, @altera-corporation • Studied at @university-of-delaware, MA in IxD from Interaction Ivrea
MBA in design strategy, a degree that mixes business and creative strategy. Experience working with a variety of sizes from Exxon Mobile, to Kara’s Cupcakes.
Visual, UI/UX, product designer with thirteen years of experience in the digital space. Worked at Current TV until the Al Jazeera acquisition for $500M in 2013.
http://jasonknightsf.com/blog/
Founder @minimash; Creative Director @google; Advisor @streamwize ; Digital Content Evangelist
http://blog.markgartland.com
VP, Mobile Products at Trunomi, pioneering B2ME for the financial industry
UX Design + User Research + Product Market Fit + Lean UX. 3 yrs' Human Resources experience inspired me to improve processes for people and businesses.
http://www.medium.com/@lexin8r
Product Designer / UX
Founder Atma Mobile Networks. Founder and Executive Principal at Montparnas.com. Studied at @dartmouth-college
Founder / Product Ninja • Formerly @google, @apple, & @mit-lincoln-laboratory • Studied CS at @morehouse-college
Chief Product Officer at spot labs
Interactive Media Designer. Creates experimental games, experiences, and interactions.
I am a Mobile/ Web/ UI/UX Visual Design hybrid, with a background in print, design, brand, motion, animation and fashion.
Founder The Cognitive Healthcare Company. UX & visual designer. Longtime freelance ninja coming out of the wilderness to start a company. Worked at @sapient
UI/UX designer + front-end developer.
Founder of TinSaucer Productions. Visionary of the alien invasion. Saver of CommerceOne BuySite and PeopleSoft i8. I don't believe in the Kobayashi Maru.
8 years UX Design experience. BS from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. Communication and client relations background. Wearer of many hats.
I am an artist with 12 years experience in the gaming industry.
Currently, I work for Zynga in their San Francisco studio as an in-house UI Consultant. My previous roles include UI Designer, Art Lead, Product Design Consultant, Visual FX Artist, Characte
Founder OppSites and Founding Principal City Design Collective. 15 years professional urban design. Strong design, policy and public speaking. MLA Cornell 1999
Level headed, data-loving leader and jack of all trades. Thrives on problem solving.
Graduate from UC Berkeley's School of Information. Well rounded engineer/designer armed with the scientific method and user centered design...
User Experience designer. Spent several years focused on healthcare innovation and design. Masters in Industrial Design from RISD 2010.
Co-founder, NeonMob.
Fiddling with bits and atoms, and everything in between.
MSc Comp. Sci. (HCI) & Ed. Tech. — BSc. Comp. Sci. (AI)
Creative, tech-savvy marketing manager & entrepreneur with 7+ years experience in online & digital media production.
http://annalisclint.carbonmade.com/
Front-end developer, visual designer, UI/UX researcher, huge typography nerd. Can do full-stack, too (founder @valleyvpn). Studied @university-of-california-berkeley. Cooks pizza @900º.
http://jeremytribby.com/
Owner/Web Developer at Daydream Project
http://daydreamproject.comhttp://about.me/c4ss4ndr4http://flavors.me/c4ss4ndr4http://twitter.com/c4ss4ndr4http://c4ss4ndr4.tumblr.com/
Front-end web developer, designer for digital agency Sparkart Group, Inc. as part of UX Team.
Native creator of digital goods. More pet projects than a farm.
Freelance Designer (Graphic & Web) @ moly.me
Seasoned creative with skills in UX, advetising, brand development — designing lasting brand stories that engage audiences and bridge gaps (sometimes chasms).
Passionate educational program developer, experienced event and media producer
E-mail Marketing Agency experience, self-taught HTML/CSS/SQL, quick-study for technical skills
Berkeley Math and Cognitive Science. Want to write lines.
At the intersection of tech and design. Have designed, built, and launched products for a bunch of startups. UC Davis '03
http://snarvasa.tumblr.com
Founder @harvestlink. Design & Business Development
Creative designer with strong technical skills. Experience in both start-ups and large firms. Excellent academic credentials coupled with good business acumen.
http://www.martinmittner.com/blog
Full stack Javascript Engineer with a passion for data visualization and interaction design. Proficient in both Angular and D3 frameworks.
http://montague.io
Balancing business requirements with intuitive usability, and creating moments of delight for users: these are the key to delivering great user experience.
Product/UX Designer rooted in an Architect-Economist background. Let's Make _____ Better.
UI Engineer @counsyl , with a graphic design background from @uc-davis. Tweets for Creative Mornings Oakland
creativity engineer: expert in the internet stack, the business stack and the social science stack - 20 years of net dev - teaching python this Summer('14) @UCB
http://startinvestingresponsibly.com
Visual designer, looking for work.
http://www.rithfolio.com/
Researcher
Hampshire BA in Digital Media, advanced to master level of most aspects of digital media production
McGill graduate with strong academic credentials, research, verbal reasoning and legal writing capabilities. Tech interest with front end programming languages.
Staff Ethnographic Researcher at UCSF in the School of Medicine. Background in applied anthropology and qualitative research methods. MA student at CSUEB.
CS foodie looking to promote sustainable agriculture.
Seasoned UX/startup guy.
http://drawntosimplicity.tumblr.com
Principle UX/Visual Designer at @fanminder
VP of software development with experience in web development, project management, online marketing, computer security. Interested in early-stage start-ups.
Strong visual designer with front end coding skills. Swiss army knife of design, from video and animation to web and print.
Studied at @university-of-california-davis
Exceptional writer, analyst geek
Software Engineer, CrossFit Athlete and Bio-hacker. Successful @upstart. JavaScript, Python, Angular, Node, Flask, Scikit. http://harleykwyn.com/
http://harleykwyn.com/
Expert Office Manager Master | BA in HDEV | I thrive on efficency | I get the job done and then some | Wearer of many many hats | Office organizer extrodinarire
Webmaster and Front-End Engineer. Worked with Non-Profits and B2B companies on designs, UX/UI, wireframes, and SEM.
I create immersive experiences for web and mobile applications.
Co-Founder & COO World Village • Worked at @apple, @getthere UX Designer, Creative Director, End to End SaaS Apps, designed first online travel booking software
Creative Leader. Design Director. Translate complex ideas, information, & data into great design. Visual • Web • Interaction • Brand • UX • Strategy • Marketing
Design freelancer at needlemedia. Solid fine art background. Illustrator.
Specialties Include:
Information Architecture, Interaction Design, Visual Design, User Interface Design, Product Strategy, User Experience Design, Mobile Design
I like gadgets & pugs. Lover of life just enjoying the journey.
California College of the Arts, Animator/Artist, contracted by various startups.
http://mexastexas.blogspot.com
Freelance UI & Visual Designer. BA in Multimedia.
Art Center College of Design B.S. Product Design, Former Interaction Designer at Frog Design
User experience designer with experience in startups, ecommerce, and health and wellness mobile applications.
http://www.loelee.com/blog
Product Designer at @beats-music-formerly-mog • Masters of Digital Media from @university-of-british-columbia 2011. Ping pong champion.
It's dangerous to develop alone. Take Seg! Designer and programmer of interactive media for web, console, desktop, and mobile platforms.
http://segonmedia.com
Experienced design leader
Multimedia U/X designer and developer, experienced in leveraging emerging technologies, seeks a collaborative environment at a new media company. Specialties include user experience, branding, and communications.
Front End Developer working with a non profit organization funded and backed by Google and Facebook.
I am a visual designer focused on branding, web design, UI/UX and package design. I enjoys designing for all media (web, mobile and print).
Mechanical Design Engineer, piezoresistive sensors, consumer electronics, wearable computing, DFM.
Senior Designer, experienced in leading projects from conception through implementation.
Technology Evangelist - Creative Product & UX Designer - Music Centric - Exciting Marketing Approaches - Highly Unique
Co-founder @stubstorm
Designer and front-end dev.
3d Artist & Designer in the San Francisco Bay Area
Smart questions, powerful insights. Have worked in advertising, tech and entertainment. Specialize in creative qualitative research methods for all budgets.
Lead Designer + iOS Engineer (@marqeta, @pepsi). Son + Brother. Oakland born. Vegas raised. Flagstaff educated. California native.
Recent college graduate with a diverse education and gobs of visual literacy.
Sr. UX/UI designer for Realpage. Designed/launched multiple mobile apps. Worked at Aol, Adobe, and Walmart
Web dev student looking for work with your company
Product Manager, UI/UX Designer at Ancient Goose Network.
http://daveross858.com
UX designer specializing in creating clean and thoughtful experiences for users of complex and powerful software.
Award-winning Web Producer; Strong background in Enterprise customer support (Cisco, Juniper); Proven blend of Technical and Project Management skills.
Jampa Thinlay, Tibetan American Web Architect
http://www.jtwebarchitect.com
Graphic designer with strong photography background. Strong startup experience.
Multimedia Journalist and Full Stack Web Developer
http://www.soundfra.me/blog
Techie by trade | Businessman by profession | Creative by lifestyle
Icon + Logo design | Graphic design | Print Production expert
Energetic UX Designer; Digital Native; Strong Advertising/Vis. Design background; Small team experience; Loves Sloths; Adobe CC, HTML, & CSS.
Mobitv Launch operator launch new devices into production line.
Interaction Design Student at CCA;
Graphic/Visual/UI/UX Designer. San Jose State University BA in Graphic Design. Advanced skills in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver. Mac and PC.
I make music, code, and design.
Im passionate in making the next Generation of interactive websites.
Graphic Designer
http://kylejhalvorson.wordpress.com
I design & build digital products focused on solving complex process & workflow problems. I enjoy creating efficient, satisfying user experiences, especially for sectors that generally suffer from poor usability.
http://stumptownbear.com
Creative Professional for IxD, UX, UI, and traditional media
Full Stack.
Worked at @tiburon-inc, @data911
Designer. Traveler. Observer. Appreciater of things that appeal to any or all of the senses. http://maggietaurick.com
Product Designer and Creative Director.
Problem solving is my passion and software is my favorite Swiss army hammer. I prefer open source because { innovation.should > capital }.
Wide-ranging Technical Support Specialist, with experience in Desktops, Mobile, Networking, and POS Systems