# Darold Davis

> Artist | Designer | Engineer

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

A practicing artist, designer and engineer whose career path has encompassed diverse roles, from starting out as a design apprentice at a digital design studio in Japan, then Front-end Web Developer, to UI/UX Engineer and Principal Product Designer. He has played a vital role in shaping the digital products for a number of small startups and large corporations, collaborating closely with engineers and executives for SaaS and mobile software development.

## Work Experience
### Principal @ Replicant AD, Inc.
Jan 2010 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Research, design and development of web / mobile based products

• Building interfaces using JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3
• Applying Human Centered Design and UX methods to product development
• Applying QFD, DFSS, TRIZ and Value Engineering in the development process

Technologies employed: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript

### UX Design Mentor @ Designlab
Jan 2019 – Present
Mentor students in research, UX, UI and interaction design principles and methods
Courses I mentor: UX Academy, UX Academy Foundations - https://app.designlab.com/DaroldDavis/

### Principal Product Designer @ GoVi
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020
Designed the AI-enhanced mobile and desktop SaaS product for small businesses and their customers
• Defined the product vision, design and direction
• Developed product platform UI, interactions, and user flows
• Developed front-end UI components using Material-UI and Storybook
• Collaborated with leadership, engineering and marketing to align and execute product strategies

### Principal Product Designer @ Chegg Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Santa Clara | San Francisco, CA
Produced concept designs and prototypes for Chegg's AI-enhanced Careers SaaS platform
• Collaborated with product management and engineering to define and implement the product direction, visuals and experience.
• Executed all design stages from concept development to final hand-off to engineering
• Created wireframes, user / process flows and prototypes to effectively communicate interactions and design concepts.

### Product Designer @ Linqia
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco, CA
Designed the entire AI-enhanced SaaS platform product UI, interactions and workflows
• Conducted user research and interviews
• Converted product requirements into product concept designs
• Defined product platform, interactions and style guide 
• Developed interface prototypes in HTML / CSS / JavaScript

### UI/UX Engineer @ Rhythm NewMedia (acquired by RhythmOne)
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Mountain View | San Francisco, CA
Setting the overall direction for look and feel across all the company's web and mobile based products.

• Building interface designs using Photoshop and Illustrator
• Applying User Centered Design methods
• Developing interface prototypes in HTML5 / CSS3 / JavaScript
• Creating UX user flows, journey / experience maps
• Conducting user / usability tests 

Technologies employed: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Invision, Pixate, Balsamiq, Various UX tools and services (for usability testing, surveys, card sorting)

### UI/UX Designer @ Ahalogy
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
Designed UI and UX for the AI-enhanced Liftwords SEO Tool working alongside data science engineers.

### Front-End Web Engineer @ ASTi
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Menlo Park, CA
Design and Development of cloud web application interface

• Applying Test Driven Development and testing using Mocha and Zombie
• Developing the dashboards in HTML5 / CSS3 and interface elements such as modal dialogues 
• Building controllers and models for front-end views with MVC JavaScript (AngularJS)
• Working with Node.js creating schemas
 
Technologies employed: MongoDB, Redis, Node.js, AngularJS, Bootstrap, OpenStack, Git

### ARC Services Faculty @ Academy of Art University
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | San Francisco, CA
Web Design & Developer Tutor

• Facilitated HTML, CSS, ActionScript and other web technologies to students
• Mentored and consulted on student thesis projects

### Apprentice, Designer  /  Analyst @ Aaron Marcus and Associates, Inc.
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 | Berkeley, CA
Research and development of user-interface design for web and mobile applications.  

• Made design iterations to update AM+A website  
• Conducted Contextual Inquiry for software Usability  
• Analyzed and evaluated client website for optimization  
• Researched and documented mobile UI guidelines for iPhone and Blackberry project


## Education
### Master of Science (MS) in Systems Engineering
The Johns Hopkins University

### Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Web Design & New Media
Academy of Art University

### Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Integrative Arts
Penn State University

### Certificate in Japanese Language & Culture
ミシガン州立大学連合日本センターJapan Center for Michigan Universities (JCMU)


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/darolddavis
- Portfolio: https://awards.acm.org/award_winners/davis_7259364.cfm#159
- Portfolio: https://www.siggraph.org/inside-siggraph/member-profiles/profile/?member=darold-davis
- Portfolio: https://www.darolddavis.design/

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Last updated: 2026-04-13