# Dustin York > Product design leader, designing for climate Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/dustinyork1 Sleeve-rolling systems thinker with an exceptional design background and a wealth of experience building UX-savvy applications in the complex utility and renewable energy fields. Key skills: interaction design, UX, visual design and layout, end-to-end product development, design systems, product strategy, prototyping, user research & testing, responsive web, native mobile, mentorship ## Work Experience ### Staff Product Designer @ Sealed Jan 2025 – Present ### Staff Product Designer @ Qcells North America Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States Designing products for people to help enable the next wave of net zero renewable energy at utility, commercial & industrial, and residential scale. Products include initiatives around energy simulations, energy trading, performance monitoring, and more. ### Staff Product Design Lead @ Pacific Gas and Electric Company Jan 2016 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, CA Lead product designer on a mobile and web-based platform (largely zero-to-1) that have subsequently been licensed for use outside of PG&E (a company first). Named FieldNav, the patent-pending products' early success owes itself to being "developed in close collaboration with field crews and supervisory teams to optimize for ease of use and adoption." Inspect & Maps+ native applications (work productivity — concept to implementation with a system to enable scale) • The ultimate resources for field workers: enabling them to find their way to the correct equipment, diagnose dangerous issues they find, communicate hazards among the workforce, and many more capabilities. • Proven results: 93% of workers stated these apps were valuable to their job (5% margin of error). They require no training (unheard of for enterprise). Engage responsive web product (work productivity — beta to production with key innovations to make that step) • The bridge between supervisors and what’s happening in the field: deploying workers to necessary work where it’s needed, and addressing critical issues as they are identified. • Proven value: Engage has enabled a tripling of workload and workforce for wildfire inspection and mitigation. Leadership Skills • Pioneering the effort to drive consistency between products by founding PG&E’s first scaled agile team. Created a process with tools for streamlined product delivery. • Mentoring a team of five designers and coordinating among them the desired product strategy. ### Senior Product Designer @ GreatSchools Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Oakland, CA • Led school profile redesign (representing 60% of all traffic) to make content more accessible to parents. Redesign corresponded with an NPS score moving from “good” to “excellent,” and a ~5% reduction of bounce rate • Reconfigured the profile ad experience (+5% CTR, +75% viewability, +63% programmatic coverage) and released “topical reviews” (tripling new reviews when compared to year before) ### Product Designer @ Wikimedia Foundation Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area • Designed a more engaging and navigable interface for Wikimedia grants applications. • Created the marketing campaign unveiled at the Wikimania conference to spread awareness about travel grants to the global community, resulting in the highest number of grant applications in the program’s history. ### Communication Designer @ The World Bank Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Washington D.C. Metro Area • Led the human-centered design process by conducting interviews and research. Created a how-to resource for people to contribute to open-source data collection for natural disaster resiliency. • Conceived and published influential data visualizations that were presented at the White House’s Climate Data Summit and served to benefit The World Bank’s global network of stakeholders. ### Product Designer @ SoFi Inc. Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco Bay Area Designed, prototyped, and launched the company’s alpha social network by collaborating with the development and leadership team. Work included user research (personas, customer feedback, and usability tests) and feature development/iteration. ### Graphic Designer @ Stanford University Press Jan 2008 – Jan 2013 Designing market appropriate and creative original book cover designs. ### Product Designer @ UNICEF Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | Greater New York City Area • Led field research, distilled learnings, and authored a written guide and website to help global stakeholders start local innovation labs for open-source technology development. • Developed and published the Innovation Unit’s website with the goal of increasing visibility of team’s efforts. ### Product Designer/Researcher @ MIT Senseable City Lab Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 • Conceived, researched, and prototyped new mobile applications and data visualizations using Singapore’s public transit data in order to improve urban mobility. • Unveiled an exhibition of interactive data visualizations at the Singapore Museum of Art. Collaborated with research team to provide public access to real-time city information about their city and uncover ways for Singapore to optimize their transit systems. ### Design Fellow @ UNICEF Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 Designer of comprehensive service design systems and communication pieces describing some of UNICEF's Innovation Team projects and experiences. The main project from our team was the creation of the alpha version of the Child Friendly Technology framework, which has been advanced and subsequently released under a creative commons license. ### Communication Designer @ Wikimedia Foundation Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 Designed infographics and the Foundation’s first published annual report. I also created a brand guide with standards that translated to all of the Wiki chapters located throughout the world. ### Graphic designer @ Riezebos Holzbaur Design Group Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 Designed and produced a variety of printed items and websites under tight deadlines. Experiences included handling vendors, and directly addressing the needs of clients. Design, conceptual, organizational, and teamwork skills were developed at this position. ### Graphic designer @ Cardoza Publishing Jan 2005 – Jan 2007 Designed book covers and interiors, in addition to company identity items—logos, sales catalogs, business cards, etc. Independently handled all phases up to the finished product, from sketching out ideas to getting the final design out to print. ## Education ### MFA in Media Design ArtCenter College of Design ### Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design Rhode Island School of Design ### Rhode Island School of Design ### Rhode Island School of Design ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yorkdustin - Portfolio: http://www.dustinyork.net --- Source: https://flows.cv/dustinyork1 JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/dustinyork1/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-30