# Jonathan Shariat

> Principal UX @ Amazon and Author of Tragic Design

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

Jonathan is a design leader who is passionate about doing right by others and using design as a tool to improve the world we live in. With over a decade of experience from startups to large companies, Jonathan leverages his unique background to promote ethical design everywhere he goes. 

He loves to learn and share it through: 
- Writing Tragic Design
- Speaking internationally
- Co-hosting the Design Review Podcast
- Connecting with the design community via Twitter as @DesignUXUI

## Work Experience
### Principal Product Designer @ Amazon
Jan 2025 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States
- Set long term vision & strategy
- Strengthen & accelerate the design org
- Grow the business by being obsessed with our user's needs

### UX lead, Google Photos & A11y program lead for both Photos and Google One @ Google
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | Mountain View, California, United States
- Lead UX for Photos backup experience, including setting strategy and vision, managing other designers, and executing.

- Lead and built accessibility program for Google One to achieve fully accessible product across all user journeys. Received annual "Hall of Fame" award for my product area for my impact in this area. Program included: drafting and executing a burn down plan, testing plans, guidance, leading team of QA engineers and volunteers, training UX and eng partners, and being a topic expert.

### Sr. Interaction Designer & Accessibility Program Lead @ Google
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Mountain View, California, United States
- Built and lead a11y program for G1 (and received highest level a11y training certification) 

- Led UX strategy, vision, and execution for Google One partnerships and core experiences (Web, Android, and iOS)

### Interaction Designer & Accessability Program Lead @ Google
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Mountain View, California

### Sr. Product Designer @ Project Rōnin
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Developed UX led partnership process to gain two top hospital partnerships
- Led UX for patient symptom tracking app to help early detection adverse events from cancer medicine.
- Developed UX hiring process that focuses on balancing team's resources and fair hiring practices

### Sr. Product Designer @ Intuit
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Mountain View, CA
Led design for the brand new, end to end, sales tax experience for QuickBooks Online. 
- Setting up and conducting customer research (online, video conference, and in person)
- Researched complex problem space (over 60k tax laws) to create simple, easy to understand experience
- Prototyped UI and animations for user testing and vision casting
- Crafted brand new end to end user experience from concept to launch within one year. 
- Led global sales tax initiatives as well as company wide sales tax needs

Leader in design ethics at Intuit
- Met with founder Scott Cook and group of designers to discuss ethical issues
- Met with CEO Brad Smith to discuss the importance of design ethics
- Gave presentations and knowledge shares

### Director of Product & Design @ Therapydia
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016
• Planning and executing product strategy and vision based on user research and market analysis
• Managing and building a great team of 5 remote developers, in the U.S. and abroad
• Managing multiple projects, planning sprints, writing user stories
• Overseeing all design, art direction, user interface design and user experience in the company
• Defining interaction flow and making aesthetic decisions for the design and technical execution of all products
• Producing and designing mocks and writing detailed specifications for development

### Senior Product Designer @ Hightail (formerly YouSendIt)
Jan 2010 – Jan 2013
Design lead for E-Commerce Prototyping & New Audience Development

Responsible for leading new design projects, prototypes, user flows, interactions, user experiences, and user interfaces for YouSendIt web, applications, mobile, and offline designs.

It is my duty to take the lead on new initiatives and provide a heuristic design solution. Projects have included mobile, new site branding and design, evolution of existing designs, application designs, and others.

### Storyboard Designer @ Weldon Owen Publishing
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010
Interpreted how-to's and created storyboards in photoshop for illustrators to draw. Other duties included research and database management.

### Animator/Web Designer @ Shabakeh7
Jan 2006 – Jan 2009
Edited and did camera. Co-produced our kids show. Helped Develop our web presence. Created three websites.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Web & Interactive Media
The Art Institute of California


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jonathanshariat
- Portfolio: https://www.uitogether.com
- Portfolio: https://www.tragicdesign.com
- Portfolio: https://www.designreviewpodcast.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-13