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Design Work by John Wayne Hill

Over 15 years of experience designing for all platforms, leading teams, directing design & marketing/growth, and managing all types of designers. Below is some example work, as a lot of my past work is covered by NDAs. Projects are a mix of individual contribution and leadership/direction.

Find more at my design leadership portfolio

Portrait of John Wayne Hill in San Francisco, CA

Make Twitter Easy

Our goal with Make Twiter Easy was to tackle the known usability problems that were core to the Twitter experience. This included things like where the Reply button on a Tweet would take users; does it allow a user to reply or does it allow users to view the replies to the tweet?

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Two iphones showing updated designs for the Twitter home timeline
two iphones showing the True app

True App

True is a private-by-default social app. It featured small groups of friends and family in Threads and allowed complete control of your own information, without harvesting your data.

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Ancestry Mosaic

Mosaic was a new and exploratory product I directed and designed while at Ancestry. Mosaic helped people to discover the culture and traditions behind their DNA Story results.

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two iPhones showing the Ancestry Mosaic app
Traits by John Wayne Hill

Traits

Traits was a premium add-on product to the Ancestry DNA core product and experience. Traits allowed people to understand more about themselves, their bodies, and how they inherited physical, sensory, and emotional traits.

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Individual design work from 2009-2015. For updated design and leadership work, please see my design leadership portfolio.

Museum

M.O.H.A.I. Launchpad

Inspiring innovation through design

Custom

Reunion Tower

Enhance Your View

Exhibit

Intel Museum

Award Winning Exhibit

Tablet

Sketchmotion

Creativity made easy

Agency

Stimulant

Uncommon Computing

Watch

Running Time

Smarter Watch

Social

United Social

A Multi-Device Experience

Phone

Smarter Photography

The Future of Imaging

iPad

eBay

Better Mobile Retail

Agency

Punchcut

Experience Design

Web

Firefox

Home Tab Experience

Grad School Projects

From 2009 – 2011