james.tillinghast@gmail.com
Seattle, WA
+1 206.591.5347
Principal Design Manager
Microsoft
Experiences & Devices / MMX Group
Creative design leader / team manager with over 20+ years experience in driving product vision & designing intuitive / elegant user-centered solutions with user research / data-driven / experimentation approach.
Embracing collaboration and user research to help solve complex design problems that empower people through technology. Working directly with engineering, product management, marketing, and company leadership to help push shared customer-focused business goals with the products we create together.
Responsible for managing day to day design activities, building talented design teams, and mentoring designers in various stages of their careers. I value an inclusive working environment that embodies full diversity on the teams I manage, allowing for a broad set of perspectives that help each group to achieve & design better products.
Currently specializing in consumer & enterprise software / productivity tools at Microsoft used in mobile, big data, artificial intelligence (AI), computational computer vision (CV), data visualization, intelligent input, data integration, and machine learning (ML) spaces. Managing a team of UX design managers, designers & researchers located in Redmond and London.