Summary
David Monson is a design leader who specializes in turning intricate requirements into seamless, beautiful interfaces. With a decade of experience spanning UI/UX design, product leadership, and software engineering, he has built and scaled design organizations at Instawork and now leads design at SchoolAI while shaping user experiences across education, healthcare, and housing platforms. He excels at creating scalable design systems, research-driven processes, and cross-functional partnerships, having led teams across multiple continents and delivered dashboards, mapping tools, and mobile experiences. A self-starter with a background in software engineering and project management, he speaks Mandarin and has firsthand international experience from living and working in China. Notably, he has driven large-scale design initiatives and remote critique operations using tools like Figma, Zoom, and Notion, stacking collaboration templates that often rival in-person sessions. He holds a BYU degree in Business Management/Marketing/Chinese and a Devmountain iOS development bootcamp, which gives him a rare blend of business insight, technology fluency, and user-centered design.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Stevens-Henager College