# Adam Laskowitz

> Senior Staff Product Designer at Learning Commons (CZI)

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/adamlaskowitz

I am a product designer and researcher with wide-ranging expertise. I have designed data visualizations, wearables, smart home devices and services, retail spaces, and mobile apps. I approach design as both user-centered and strategic, developing new businesses through innovative user experiences. My career goal is to improve the quality of people’s lives by creating simple, clever solutions for complex problems.

## Work Experience
### Senior Staff Product Designer @ Learning Commons
Jan 2026 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Learning Commons is the name of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's long-standing work and investment in education, which aims to scale proven teaching and learning practices to benefit every learner. Learning Commons builds on CZl's work over the past decade to advance learning science and help translate that research into classroom practice

### Freelance + Consulting @ Self-Employed
Jan 2019 – Present
UX design, research, and product discovery freelance and consulting

Clients include Target, PathCheck Foundation (COVID-19 Contact Tracing), The Care Hack, Fountain House

### Senior Staff Product Designer @ Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Jan 2025 – Jan 2026 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Staff Product Designer @ Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area
Designing experiences for education on our learning platform

### Principal Product Designer @ GoTo
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022

### Staff Product Designer @ GoTo
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
Leading mobile UX efforts in our GoTo suite of mobile apps. Running a cross-team effort in mobile design and best practices. Contributing to our product design workflow and establishing frameworks/tools for better collaboration.

### Design Researcher @ GoTo
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020

### Principal Designer @ 7 Cups
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, California
Joined 40+ person mental health startup as the only designer/researcher to mature the user experience, introduce research and data-based decisions, and help reimagine the mobile app from a mostly web-based experience.

Research + redesign of mobile app - worked with agile engineering team • Shipped web landing page CTR 1K+% for therapy business

### Director User Experience, Consumer IoT (Smart Home) @ Target
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, California
Led + developed UX team at SF Innovation Lab • Led software / hardware initiative + product prototyping / development • Built cross-team consensus with senior executives • 8 patents

### Experience Design Lead @ Target
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco, California
• Co-led discovery, definition, strategy, and experience design for Target Open House in San Francisco (3k+ visitors weekly) • Turned Target Open House into a flagship that led to an 800+ store experience • Pivotal role in shifting Target San Francisco office into Consumer IoT (Smart Home) team to lead Target into the smart home era

### Instructor @ Gray Area
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco, California, United States
I created the curriculum and instructed the projection mapping class for Gray Area's Immersive program in 2015.

https://grayarea.org/learn/immersive/

### Wearable Prototyper, Designer @ Intel Corporation
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Hillsboro, Oregon
Responsible for our voice interface prototype, testing, and interaction design - leading to product specs and feature refinement.

### UX Designer, Research Scientist - Intel Labs @ Intel Corporation
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Hillsboro, Oregon
"Artist in residence" role responsible for exploring internal Intel technologies and designing/building digital and physical experiences to demonstrate future computing use cases.

### Visualization Designer, Interaction Designer - Intel Labs @ Intel Corporation
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | HIllsboro, Oregon


## Education
### Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Media Study
University at Buffalo

### Master of Architecture (MArch) in Situated Technologies
University at Buffalo

### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Architecture
University at Buffalo


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/adamlasko
- Portfolio: http://lasko.design

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Last updated: 2026-04-13