# Cole Murphy

> Staff Product Designer @ Datadog | UX Instructor @ Brain Station | Previously Meta, Capital One, Planet Labs

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/colemurphy

## Work Experience
### Staff Product Designer, Monitoring & Graphing @ Datadog
Jan 2025 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area

### Lead Product Designer, Developer Tools @ Meta
Jan 2020 – Jan 2025 | New York, United States
Owned the user experience of various products for Meta’s Engineering team (FB, IG, WhatsApp, Reality labs etc). I focused on tools for managing metrics at scale, mitigating product regressions, monitoring and observability, dashboarding, AI big bets, and releasing products to all Meta users.

### Lead Instructor, User Interface Design @ BrainStation
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025

### Lead Instructor, UX Design @ BrainStation
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | New York, United States

### Industry Speaker @ BrainStation
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | New York, United States
Speaker for various design panels online and in person.

### Design Consultant @ SysGit
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021

### Principal Product Designer @ Capital One
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | New York, New York
Product Designer for portfolio and risk management software at Capital One Commercial Bank.

### UX Design Lead @ Domino Data Lab
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Owned all UX/ UI for the company as it established itself as a leading data science platform.
- Owned & executed the product redesign, unveiled at Domino's Rev Conference - an event where 500+ data scientists and leaders discussed best practices and innovation in industry. 
- Worked with Engineering, Product Management, Executives, Internal stakeholders, and Customers to balance team needs with actionable deliverables. 
- Owned design of all customer-facing products for Data Science managers to view and analyze ongoing data science efforts. 
- Participated in weekly user research and usability testing sessions with customers to iterate on ideas/features.

### Senior Product Designer @ Planet
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Designed Planet Explorer, an interface for users to interact with and extract insights from Planet’s archive of satellite imagery.
- Led design of the Developer center, a full suite of tools and tutorials for customers to interact with satellite imagery via APIs.
- Led design for analytic application which uses algorithms to detect change within deep stacks of satellite imagery.
- Established and maintained the visual language and design systems.
- Conducted user research and usability testing. Applied UX research findings and metrics to iteratively develop new features.
- Lead Software Engineering onboarding for all new hires, onboarded and mentored new designers, spoke to students about careers in aerospace, and participated in women in aerospace group.

### Product Designer @ UrtheCast
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco
- Designed all customer facing products including the Urthecast platform, a developer center for users to access satellite imagery via APIs.
- Led usability testing which influenced the pivot from b2c to b2b product (the developer center).
- Established and maintained style libraries, visual language, brand guides, and brand identity for Urthecast’s products and marketing material.
- Measured UX with metrics while maintaining business vision.
- Onboarded and mentored new designers, and advocated for design in the org.

### Co-Founder and Creative Director @ Flowbit
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Berkeley, CA
- Founder of Flowbit, a startup passionate about developing software and hardware to improve the management and distribution of clean drinking water in the developing world. 
- Designed all digital products including a mobile app to help water distributors in developing countries monitor and remotely control their purification facilities. 
- Led usability testing of mobile application in Chiapas, Mexico and used rapid prototyping to test features with users.
- Built the front-end of the mobile app and marketing website using Adobe creative suite, HTML, CSS, and Jquery. 
- Defined company vision with cofounders, wrote grant proposals.

### VP of External Relations @ Berkeley Innovation
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Berkeley Institute of Design
A multidisciplinary human-centered design group at UC Berkeley that applies the design process to collaborate with clients, student groups, and the public to find solutions to general problems. My job is to build relationships and organize events with designers, design firms, artists, design clubs, Universities, and the campus community at UC Berkeley

### Design Intern @ Newton Circus
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
Used Adobe suite to reorganize the UX and UI of the Up Singapore Festival website. Concept creation and mockups for website structure as well as insight for future Festival events. Video Editing and movie compilation for project that interviews top business professionals and provides interviewing tips to less experienced individuals. Assisted with video editing on data visualization project connected with La Salle School of Arts


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Tech Entrepreneurship and Design
University of California, Berkeley


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/colemurphydesign
- Portfolio: https://colemurphydesign.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-30