I first got online when the internet was still a playground of independent projects by creative tinkerers. GeoCities helped me build my first website. Endless brute-force copying and pasting code helped me to learn HTML and CSS.

A cracked copy of Photoshop and online icon and interface design hobbyist forums introduced me to the tools and concepts of good design and communication by trial and error.

Today, I’m a pragmatic, broadly skilled product designer who quickly makes sense of large and ambiguous problems.

I bring a multi-disciplinary background in product thinking, UX design, and front-end development that has helped me foster and strengthen collaboration between product, design, and engineering in all my roles.

Design work that interests me has a clear positive impact to the material, real-world conditions of people: transportation, education, journalism, personal finance, health - the real stuff.

I’m a champion for cities, urbanism, and transportation and have been fortunate to be able to marry that passion with my design craft. I led product design for several initiatives for the MTA, New York City’s transit system, and the Port Authority of NY & NJ.

My designs for platform information screens on the Subway and JFK AirTrain, and a complete rehaul of the MTA mobile app help millions of commuters in New York City daily.

I currently lead design for transit scheduling at Remix by Via, a platform that empowers transit planners to deliver high-quality transit networks and service where it’s needed most.

I live in New York City and hope to call it my home for life. I’m incredibly lucky to have a backyard, and in warmer weather you’ll find me gardening, on our local Open Street, or out and about by bike, probably headed to the Queens Night Market. I’m always open to a conversation - find me on Bluesky, LinkedIn, or good old e-mail.

About Adam’s website

My website is coded by hand, designed in the browser, trying to use the latest wonderful capabilities of CSS in fun ways. It’s built on the static site generator 11ty for some lightweight templating.

No artificial intelligence was used in the creation of this website – though I’m not an anti-AI absolutist, I have no interest in using it to replace manual tasks I enjoy doing. Elegantly coding a website is one of those tasks.

Read about the history of my personal website evolution in this blog post.