I believe that great products are built on a deep understanding of people, paired with a relentless focus on details.
I love building tools that empower people to solve complex problems and craft experiences, which I currently do at Salesforce.
I also love croissants, soccer, and speedy race cars. And spending time with my wife Elissa, and our son Atlee.
Here’s a quick look at some of the products that I’ve helped build:
You are an excellent designer with the energy and willingness to solve problems with empathy for the humans who use the things we build. That makes you great at your job—at least in my book.
Thanks for showing up every day with a positive attitude and a willingness to learn and grow with others.
Cliff Seal, Product Design Architect, Salesforce
Thank you for always being such a champion for a11y! You’ve always been so thorough in your attention to detail and thinking through so many use cases for all people with Disabilities to be successful. You’re one of the absolute best designers I’ve ever worked with. Thank you for everything you’ve done and continue to do!
Donielle Berg, Lead Accessibility Engineer, ServiceNow
If you've spent any time with Austin, you'll quickly realize why he's often considered THE favored partner by our product and engineering partners (often to the chagrin of the Flow UX team) ... he works tirelessly to understand context, the technology involved, the patterns, but also the people/team and users. He is as close to being "the complete designer" as I have ever seen with someone so early in their career and I wouldn't hesitate to hire him to work on literally any design project across domains or needs.
Patrick Goetterman, Principal Product Designer, Salesforce
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Austin is great to work with and is an expert in what he's doing. He iterates over designs with engineering to arrive at the best possible design Salesforce platform can support. For each interaction, Austin looks for a balance of following the established Salesforce ways with enhancing usability.
Principal Engineer, Salesforce
Austin is an incredible teammate. Not only has he helped shape the future of our role, but he is also constantly learning, growing, and discovering ways in which we can improve our processes and products. It is something I truly admire and always look forward to times where we can collaborate.
Jonathan Vessely, Creative Director, JDA Worldwide
Austin is truly the best example of a designer and collaborator all around. He is the easiest person to work with and is truly a pleasure to interact with. I always enjoy working with him and feel really lucky to have him as a close partner on my projects.
Senior Product Designer, Salesforce
…Austin is almost peerless in his domain expertise, compassion for users and their outcomes, not to mention work ethic - all wrapped up in a person that seeks to be as helpful to as many people as possible.
Principal Product Designer, Salesforce
Austin is prized by his fellow UXers for several things ... he listens deeply, with his full attention and from this highly engaged place…offers insightful feedback back by a level of systems knowledge that very very few other designers seem to possess... and he always gives his knowledge freely and without judgment. He was jokingly considered something of a crutch on Automation UX because everyone knew they could just “ask Austin.”
Principal Product Designer, Salesforce
Austin, your attention to detail on [customer engagement], your positive attitude, and your WIDE set of skills make it easy to work with you and you definitely go above and beyond for the client. I’m blown away that you’re a designer. I typically have to help tech producers write Ampscript after a certain point!
Jonathan Bush, Senior Success Architect, Salesforce
Austin is an email-building genius and he has always been happy to share his knowledge on background images in emails with me. Thanks Austin!
Brian Kaplan, Technical Producer Architect, Salesforce
Austin cooperates across so many different teams to ensure customer success and always designs with the user in mind. He goes deep into understanding business and customer goals and comes up with great solutions that balance both. He is definitely the right person to be on such a high visibility project with so many challenges… he's my favorite person to collaborate with. It's just so easy working with him.
Senior Product Designer, Salesforce