Scott Jenson
Product Strategy and UX design
About
Education
Stanford University
Masters, Computer Science / December, 1988
Stanford University
Undergraduate, Economics / December, 1984
Experience
Telepath
Product Strategy Advisor / January, 2026 — Present
Mastodon
Product Stategy Advisor / January, 2025 — Present
Helping Mastodon build out their product design strategy
Greenopia
Product Strategy Advisor / June, 2024 — Present
Jenson Design
Product Design Consultant / April, 2012 — Present
Product Coaching and advising to startups, non-profits, and open source projects.
adplist.org
UX Mentor / June, 2021 — March, 2025
One small way I can give back. I book 2 mentees a week and met with 150+ folks. Stopped using it as I didn't like the direction it was going (bugs, paid mentorships, and generally not inspiring leadership.
Joomla!
Joomla Advisory Board / July, 2023 — April, 2024
Senior UX Designer / September, 2023 — March, 2024
Researching new uses of haptics in Android. I did the haptics for Android lock screen widgets, the Back Gesture (2023), Circle to Select (2024) and several new 'dragging experiences' to be shipped later in 2024
Product Strategy / January, 2013 — March, 2021
Build and released the FOSS Eddystone BLE beacon standard. Shipped the Physical Web beacon scanning software to all Android phones (and Chrome mobile browsers). Worked on the "Future Android UX team" and created a series of concepts around Digital Wellbeing ("Flip to Shush" came from that work) a new way to edit text on Mobile (jenson.org/text), as well as work on advanced keyboards, a cloud connected KeyFob, and several home automation concepts. Over 35 patents filed. Active in the IoT community, speaking at several events and teaching classes at multiple universities.
Manager of Mobile UX / August, 2005 — March, 2011
Manager of Mobile UX group, responsible for managing a team of 21 designers/researchers that worked on multiple platform versions for: Google Mobile Maps, Google Mobile Search, Mobile Gmail, Google Image Search and Google SMS. Also lead team to explore new product concepts using CSS3/HTML5.
Ink & Switch
UX Designer / January, 2022 — April, 2022
Worked on the Upwelling project to create a Google Docs like product that does NOT require a data silo in the center. Based on the very promising CRDT technology. https://www.inkandswitch.com/upwelling/
frog
Creative Director / March, 2011 — August, 2012
Defined the creative and technical vision for large and small multi-disciplinary teams at frog. This involved defining user research; formulating design/business strategy, facilitating ideation, design, prototyping and documentation across a wide range of technology platforms (desktop, web, embedded and physical UI). Worked on projects for Disney, Skype, HP, Chase, and Intel.
Cognima LTD
VP Product Design / July, 2001 — April, 2002
Oversaw the design, prototyping and testing of several mobile applications using the Cognima replication engine. Several of the applications are now being rolled out using UK mobile operators. The most well known is Shozu.
Symbian
Director Product Design / November, 1998 — July, 2001
Lead and coordinated dozens of design and research projects relating to mobile internet services within Symbian, including the Quartz and Pearl reference platforms. Managed 19 people at Symbian to design, prototype, test, and specify future mobile wireless products. Oversaw a design team that has generated >20 patent applications, 10 academic/trade publications, and 5 external speaking engagements, including CHI2001.
Apple
User Interface Designer / October, 1988 — October, 1996
Human interface manager within Apple Computer on projects such as QuickTime, FileShare, AppleMail, AppleScript, Publish & Subscribe and QuickDraw GX print architectures. Designer/programmer for Apple Newton. Started on original concept device which included concept prototyping as well a developement of Newton 1.0, 2.0 and eMate products.
Intellicorp Systems Ltd.
Programmer / December, 1985 — September, 1988
Programmer working on the PC port of the Kee System
Programmer / December, 1985 — September, 1988
Programmer working on the PC port of the Kee System
Programmer / December, 1985 — September, 1988
Programmer working on the PC port of the Kee System
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