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Jake Zien"Rhymes with lion"

Business-minded product designer, design-minded developer.

Work

Personal projects

For the love of the game

Shutterbug running on an iPhone and an iMac.

Shutterbug

Burst-aware photo app that matches how you actually shoot

Gecko Robotics

Robots and software for industrial inspections

Hovering a link on an instrumentation diagram page

Power Plant Document Navigator

Firing up a team to rapidly turn a prototype into a shipped v1, and winning a $5M contract renewal

Screenshot of the asset lifecycle management app

Asset Lifecycle Management

Redesigning Gecko's core product, learning from the ways it broke last time

Culdesac

Developer of car-free neighborhoods in America

Leasing ecommerce app

The app for browsing and leasing apartments at Culdesac

Marketing site for Tempe

Strategy, design, and implementation of the site for Culdesac's first neighborhood

Resident app

Leading the design of Culdesac's digital resident experience

CBRE

Fortune 150 commercial real estate company

Site IQ

A secure space for broker teams to collaborate on market intelligence

CBRE Build brand

Invented a tech brand for the world's largest commercial real estate company

Quirky

Creative manufacturer of nifty products from crowdsourced ideas

Pivot Power

My idea for an adaptable power strip became Quirky's iconic bestseller