WHEREIN WE REVIEW
Cybersecurity for Planes, Trains, & Tanks - Oh My
Outside of my favorite degenerate action movies from the late 90s, I had no idea you could actually “hack” a plane or a tank, and I doubly didn’t know you could probably hack a train from its toilet.
As the Head of Design for cybersecurity company Shift5, my charge was to manage the usual challenges of “building a Design organization for a well funded startup with an intense and often scary client base,” create what individual contributor style I’m needed for (on this page, below), and guide the work the team I built did every day. They were an incredible group, and I am so terribly proud of them.
Let Me Tell You
I tried counting how many projects, artboards, and presentations I’d participated in while amongst the blue-SaaS halls of Smartsheet, but that’s the kind of thing I’d probably need peyote and an isolation tank to really take stock of. Along with a team of assassins, I got to start their first real visual system and write the rules to it, so that was cool too.
Prototypical
For anyone who will listen, I’m constantly espousing the necessity that in all the work we do, we need to “look like ourselves.” Our internal studio executes against an established style guide (my most concise one yet at 93 pages), and uses this to reinforce brand integrity in everything we design.
You’re All Real!
While remote work is my newfound religion, getting the team together for an offsite is always a blast - even if the primary goal is to re-learn how to make eye contact with people outside of a Zoom call.
