Hello. I'm Matthew — maker, designer, product leader, curious optimist.

I make apps, sometimes art and furniture, occasionally a photograph worth keeping.

I've spent the past stretch of my career in product, mostly at companies making useful things for good people. Before that, I was twelve, drawing stereograms — a few of which still live on this site.

My work has woven through Mozilla, Swayable (an ML insights startup), WeTransfer, Paperless Post. I enjoy prototyping and testing ideas, especially the unexpected. I value collaboration and am motivated by scrappy teams tackling tricky problems where design, engineering, and research need to work in tandem.

I’ve been building apps in my spare time for friends and family since the early pandemic. I have several on my phone that I use every week. You’ll find a few those on this site soon, if not already.

A few notions guide my work:

  • Fall in love with the problem, not the solution. Approach challenges with hypotheses and a bias for action. Prototype, test, validate.
  • Truly collaborate. A product is never better than the team that makes it. In every interaction, aim to both teach and learn. Low ego, high aspiration.
  • Prioritize your users and their experience. In a competitive space, differentiators converge. Focus on opinionated, refined, end-to-end experiences that salute the user and amplify their potential.

This site was lovingly hand-crafted in Brooklyn, with old-fashioned html, css, and javascript. Keep it simple.

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