About
My name is Jeremy Hamman, and I am a UX and product design leader based in upstate NY, working nationally. With heaps of experience, I'm at my best finding the intersection of impact and feasibility, delivering real results for clients and agencies. Recently my focus has been on helping companies of all shapes and sizes become more accessible, helping product start-ups mature, and teaching established organizations to find their footing across the digital landscape. I love mentoring. (Ask about Mr. T)
Work Experience
Started as an agency partner helping move the product towards wide release. Moved to serving as fractional CTO while helping more trying, expecting, and current moms live healthier.
Began helping Baltimore bands with websites and MySpace, now helping start-ups put their best product forward and agencies supplement their skills with mine.
Met as vendor partners, moved in quickly thereafter. Was the sole steward of strategy, visual design, and experience design for a bit over two years, helping teensy water companies and tech giants solve problems.
Two weeks before the pandemic shut everything down, I joined Doubles as the product design lead on their promising live sports product. Live sports. Two weeks before the pandemic. Pivoted with the founder and head of engineering to add new features, experiences, and a hearty design system while sports were away, ultimately ended up in acquisition by the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Introduced to GS through a friend who needed my help in work they were doing and stuck around for a long while. From Twitter, Michaels, and AMEX to a bonkers garage company called the Economic Space Agency, I was a combination of strategy, experience design, and visual lead, that did a heap of design systems. Go use a MinuteKey kiosk at Lowes, you'll see what I did.
Lucid, now Highnoon as acquired by Agital, tasked me with bringing their UX, engineering, and visual design up to the level of their marketing chops. I helped run the redesign and implementation of several national projects, most notably the total redesign and creation of a design system for the Better Business Bureau.
Known for its print program and classic graphic design heritage, I was the first primarily digital instructor on staff after attending the program myself. Taught typography, color, illustration, and marketing.
Started as an intern, stayed as the primary strategist on a multitude of accounts. Fondly remember strategizing, coding, and launching a number of successful variable data print projects, most notably a wildly successful fundraising push from United Way.
Projects
I worked with the team at Rookly to rework and refine their scholastic chess league experience, from a fine idea with a handful of schools to a platform capable of sustaining triple digit growth season over season. I created and helped implement a robust design system and refined product vision that allowed Rookly's engineers to make rapid improvements to rave reviews.
Originally helping to audit the beta BumptUp experience, then leading the charge on a redesign and replatforming of the app while with codelab303, to now serving as a fractional CTO has allowed me a prime vantage point to see a great idea come to life. I've helped with experience and visual design, go-to-market strategy, vendor selection and engineering challenges, and the creation and implementation of new features.
Help an awesome group of folks take their mostly offline business online, while playing nice with a group of very experienced (and opionated dealers) AND documenting it all in a deep design system. Some of the most robust research and discovery I've done, starting with the normal good stuff and ending up with a group of two dozen rockstars over two days in Boulder. Huge SEO uplift and visibility with more backend releases on the way.
I hopped on a call in 2023 as the head of strategy, experience, and design at codelab303 to discuss a new software project with Carvana. Previous projects had been audacious, this one was...wild. As the sole research, designer, and strategist on the project, I managed to replace not just the existing mess of Google sites in use, but also a confluence license, while getting more value out of other software AND connecting a workforce of 20,000 employees.