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Humanize Design

A hand-stitched bag feels different.

Because it's made with care,
shaped by experience,
built to fit.

You can feel it.

That difference
when everything else is the same.

That's what I design for.

2019 – PRESENT

Thinker & Doer at Apple

A glimpse of the work that has shipped. Plenty more is taking shape behind the scenes that I can't share just yet. Some of it has turned into 4 issued patents, with 6 more pending.

Visited Places
iOS 26 Visited Places

Led end-to-end design for an intelligent system that automatically captures meaningful locations users visit, making them effortless to revisit, search, and share across devices.

iOS 17 Maps Snippets

Designed the refreshed Maps snippets for place queries, directions, parking, locating people, and business hours across iOS, macOS, and watchOS.

Places Library Places Library
iOS 18: All-New Places Library

Drove the vision and shipped end-to-end design for a unified system where users save places, Guides, hikes, and routes, rethinking how people organize and return to the locations that matter to them.

iOS 16 Offline Maps

DRI for offline navigation. Designed the full download, storage, and usage experience so users can rely on Maps anywhere, regardless of connectivity.

Ratings Ratings
iOS 14: Apple Maps Native Ratings and Photo System

Designed and shipped the first-party ratings and photo contribution system from zero to one, giving users a trusted way to share experiences and shaping how billions discover places.

2015 – 2019

Across Products and Industries

Before Apple, I designed across industries. Finance, education, healthcare, automotive, productivity. From pitch-stage startups to companies with millions of users.

Microsoft Outlook Mail

Animated user flows into interactive prototypes to pitch our design vision to leadership.

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Vinosoft

Designed a comprehensive business platform for the wine trade, from managing correspondence and orders to accounting and an integrated shop solution.

MEAE 2.0

A game-based health app empowering people to take control of their mental, physical, and social health through interactive experiences.

Automotive Retail
Automotive Retail Re-Imagined

Worked on creating a next-generation, cloud-native platform and collaborated closely with product management and engineering teams to create new and iterative product experiences.

Zoho Zoho
Zoho Dashboards

Designed data visualization, invoicing, dashboards, and expense management app UI. Produced marketing sites and pitch presentations.

SPECIALTY

I Think in Motion

Interaction design is what I do best. The micro-moments, the transitions, the details. Behind every one, 1,000 failed ideas. Here's a library of the good, the bad, and the crazy.

OPEN LIBRARY

SPEAKING

Sharing the Craft

Teaching is how I keep learning. A Skillshare class. Workshops across Taiwan and Brazil. Anywhere people want to dig into the craft.

TESTIMONIALS

Kind Words

"johny's work is consistently rare, clean, and thoughtful."

Scott Belsky, Behance CEO & Founder

"johny is creative, forward-thinking, and thorough."

Rajanagan, Leadership at Zoho

"johny puts a unique spin on a well-known experience."

AFTER HOURS

Volleyball, Camera, Gardening

I love traveling and capturing new places on camera. I play a lot of beach and grass volleyball, and lately I've been getting into Korean, Chinese and Italian cooking. When I'm not doing any of that, I'm probably in the garden or woodworking in the workshop.

Volleyball

Volleyball

Beach and grass games, on YouTube
Photography

Photography

A growing photo journal
Well Made

Well Made

A curation of well-designed objects

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