I'm Luke, a digital product person with over a decade of experience in direction, design, and front-end development.
Podia is the plural of podium. It's an all-in-one e-commerce platform for creators selling digital goods, memberships, and online courses. I work with our small team of developers to build, maintain, and push our platform forward as we attempt to consume more of our users' workflows.
Creative Director
2015—2019
Pixel Union is a digital agency and a seller of e-commerce themes and apps. I lead design at our agency early on, transitioning later to Direct of Product, leading the design and production of our first apps. Over the subsequent years I took on varying levels of product direction within our Apps division until a mass layoff in Spring 2019.
Product Designer
2014—2015
Treehouse is an online technology education provider–an online code school. I briefly joined their design team before being seduced away by Pixel Union. During my short stint, I focused on marketing and product design with a greater emphasis on front-end development.
Product Director
2010—2014
Flow is a project management tool for teams of all types. As Product Director, I was responsible for our product roadmap and team as well as the design of our web and mobile apps. Here I really got to stretch out, getting dirty with front-end development, documentation, customer support, project management, and many other responsibilities.
Before its recent acquisition by Vimeo, Livestream was a live-streaming service before YouTube Live, Twitch, and Periscope were around. They were initially a client of MetaLab, but after working with them exclusively for 6 months or so, I was poached and moved off to New York to work alongside them. I got to lead design of our marketing site, consumer site, desktop production tools, and mobile apps before returning home to take the reigns of Flow.
Product Designer
2006—2008
MetaLab is a leading digital agency responsible for a ton of great design work you've likely already interacted with. I worked there when MetaLab was just its founder. I joined him when I was in my second year of a CompSci degree where I was becoming increasingly disillusioned with the lack of design and web development. At MetaLab I really got to cut my teeth and get a taste for the industry.