About Justin

I’ve been designing software as a job for 12 years. I have done so for multi-national banks, national marketing campaigns, and small humanitarian not-for-profits. I have done so as a design team of one, on big teams surrounded by whiteboards, interdisciplinary colleagues, and ping pong tables, and from a home office with asynchronous, distributed teams in a dozen timezones on every inhabited continent.

Lately, I’ve been working on an offline-first, trans-institutional personal finance app called Stax, tech for crisis response and the humanitarian sector, as well as developer tools and fintech products. Right now, the team at Remitly and I are building inclusive financial tools for immigrants and their families.

I also make electronic music, teach qualitative research methods at the University of Alberta, read a bunch, curl poorly, play hockey slightly better, ski, paddle, trek, and run through the Rocky Mountains, humble brag about cold and mosquitoes, and I very occasionally write a newsletter called bluelight. Start there if you want to get a better sense of what I'm about.