Nick Noble

Nick Noble

Design, dev, cats, mgmt, tarot, in Brooklyn, NY, He/him

About

Building a company that designs companies.

Contact

Figma
Twitter
Website

Speaking

2020
Design Signals at Thesis
Brooklyn, NY

Walking through design fundamentals of space, type, and color, with an atomic lens: every detail is a signal within a greater communication.

2019
The Work Between the Work at Notion NYC
First Round Capital

Work between the work comes up any time you find yourself putting effort into something that's not your core mission – you can reduce this through transparent process and a culture of documentation, with tools like Notion.

2019
Internal Presentations at Thesis Internal

These are individual slides pulled from various internal presentations given internally at Thesis between 2019 and 2023

Work Experience

2023 — Now
Brooklyn, NY

Buidling a company that designs companies.

2022 — 2023
Senior Director, Integration & Brand at Barrington Media Group
Remote

(Post acquisition of Thesis)

2018 — 2022
Remote

2019 — Head of Design
2018 — Lead Front End Engineer

2014 — 2018
Brooklyn, NY

Built flagship websites, products, and identities from scratch, for brands known and unknown.

2011 — 2018
New Orleans & NYC

I worked in the art department, creating large volumes of branding, signage, interactive, and print materials for film & television props, locations, and titling.

2014 — 2014
2012 — 2013

Awards

2019
ADG Nomination from The Art Directors Guild

For contribution to excellence in production design for a period feature film, The Irishman

Side Projects

2024

@pketh wrote a blog post in '22 that inspired a lot for me, and for a year and a half "why is there no 'certified organic' / nutrition facts for software?" bopped around in my head.

@taras brought it back when he posted "why is there no product hunt for small software?"

So I built it.

@taurean & @igor were early testers and helped polish the MVP, giving me the encouragement I needed to actually ship it.

2023

I've wanted to build a command-line themed tarot reader for a long time, and it turns out it was a perfect project to learn OpenAI's APIs.

2022

I love TTRPGs, especially Quest and, of course, D&D5e. I'm building a platform of small tools to help DMs run games.

Volunteering

2018 — 2018
Adjunct Educator at Baltimore School for the Arts
Baltimore, Maryland

Conceptualized and launched an innovative curriculum for high school arts students, introducing them to fundamental coding and computer science principles as tools for design and narrative development.

Certifications

Teams

Current
Miniware

Education

2007 — 2010
Theatre Technology at Baltimore School for the Arts