Summary
Adam Kirkwood is a product designer and developer-experience advocate with 16 years of experience crafting software that improves the human experience. At Meta, he designs internal tools that help engineers author, review, manage, and ship code faster with confidence. His career spans IBM API Connect, Recurly, Tango Me, Mochi Media, and entrepreneurship as a co-founder of JuiceCrate, where he led design systems, growth, and end-to-end product development. He champions lean UX, atomic design, and data-informed iteration, often prototyping with InVision and Framer to speed learning, and he brings frontend chops in HTML/CSS/JS and Rails to his work. He created Sketchpacks for macOS and contributes design thoughts online, reflecting a hands-on, curious approach. Based in San Jose, California, with a background in Human-Computer Interaction, he combines strategy, research, and craft to deliver focused, measurable design outcomes.
17 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Human Computer Interaction, Human Computer Interaction at Evergreen Valley College
B.S., Web Design & Interactive Media, B.S., Web Design & Interactive Media at The Art Institute of California - San Francisco
Tagalog