# Emilio Passi

> User interface design

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/emiliopassi

## Work Experience
### Principal Product Designer @ Verkada
Jan 2025 – Present
Product design, Access Control

### Head of Design @ Formant
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025
Established the design team, processes, and experience vision for a new chapter of the Formant robot management and teleoperation platform.

### Director of Design Technology @ Punchcut
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States
Manager and principal consultant for Punchcut's first Design Technology practice. Led a hybrid designer-developer team to create time-saving tools, research the design opportunities in new technologies, and speed decision making through high-fidelity prototypes.

### Principal Design Technologist @ Punchcut
Jan 2014 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco
Designer, prototyper, internal tools developer for web, mobile, voice, wearable, IoT, and automotive solutions.

### Principal Designer @ Razorfish
Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco
Hybrid designer-developer. Played a central role in transitioning Razorfish and its clients to responsive design systems.

### Senior Product Designer @ Nokia
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | San Francisco
Designed the Facebook and Twitter apps for the N8 and N9 devices.

### Designer, adobe.com @ Adobe
Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 | San Francisco
Launched sites for Adobe Font Finder and Creative Suite 5.

### Product Designer, Adobe Creative Suite @ Adobe
Jan 2005 – Jan 2008 | San Francisco
Led design for the Macromedia Flash integration with Adobe Creative Suite. Patented no-code tools for interactive media design.

### Product Designer @ Macromedia, Inc.
Jan 2000 – Jan 2005 | San Francisco, California, United States
Design for flagship web design tools Dreamweaver and Flash. Flash set the interactive media standard for the first generation of web users, paving the way for the dynamic interfaces we enjoy today. I worked on Flash Video, the tech that spawned YouTube and the growth of streaming video.

### Software Engineering Intern @ NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Jan 1998 – Jan 1999 | Mountain View, California
UI designer and developer. Technical research in aviation diagnostics and information systems.


## Education
### BS in Computer Science
California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo

### Graphic Design
UC Berkeley Extension


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/passi
- Portfolio: https://passi.design
- Portfolio: https://epassi.medium.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-13