Scott Perket
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Scott Perket

Founder, Forge Studio in California, He/him

Early unused exploration of a 3D model item detail page for Webprints new 3D printing community. #forgewebprints #buildinginpublic dribbble.com/shots/20878772…

11 days ago

About

Founder, CEO, Head of Design at Forge Studio. Digital product designer. Formerly Facebook, Google, Zendesk, AWS, Salesforce, Square, Zapier.

Teams

Current
Forge Studio

Contact

Website
Dribbble
Twitter
LinkedIn

Projects

2023

We're thrilled to share a behind-the-scenes look at our process as we design a v1 design system & web app for Webprints new 3D printing community platform!

Follow along at #forgewebprints as we share posts & videos showcasing our journey. #buildinginpublic is new and exciting to us but way outside our comfort zone. Join us!

2023

Generative and evaluative research; requirements gathering; physical product design; digital product design (UI/UX); audio design; oversaw team building physical prototypes; designed, created, and tested digital UI/UX prototypes of in-store charging; mapping; and on-cart tablet UX.

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2022
GameOn Platform Redesign at GameOn Technology
2022
Proclivity Platform Redesign at Proclivity Systems
2022
Hawaii Public Housing Authority Digital Transformation at Hawaii Public Housing Authority

In conjunction with the University of Hawaii's Community Design Center, Forge led the digital transformation of the Hawaii Public Housing Authority from mostly offline data and business workflows to helping the organization write a cloud platform RFP; strategic field and organizational research to gather messaging and user requirements for customer messaging, documentation, guided workflows, official website, and resident portal; design and development of a new, scalable website; and the design of an entirely new resident portal.

2021
Rosetta Design System at Handshake
2021
Workrise Vision at Workrise
2020
NextGen Enterprise Publishing Design System at Ueno
2020
Guideline Design System at Guideline
2020
Prompt.io Platform Redesign at Prompt.io
2020
Joyride Vehicle Marketplace at Joyride
2019
GameOn platform v1 at GameOn Technologies
2018
Varo Rebrand at Varo Money
2018
Varo Android App v1 at Varo Money
2018
Google Analytics 5-year vision at Google
2017
Square Appointments at Square
2017
AWS Honeycode (AWS for Everyone) at Amazon Web Services
2016
Placements Scalability at Facebook

Slight redesign of ads measurement in Ads Manager, Power Editor, and various insights tools to introduce a scalable framework for accommodating the growing amount of ad formats and placements available to advertisers in measurement and Facebook Ads & Business tools.

2016
Metric Clarity at Facebook

Role: Owner (Product Manager, UX designer)
Auditing of all public metrics across all Facebook family platforms; identification of redundant or confusing metrics (either due to inconsistent naming conventions or lack of clarity of how the metric is calculated); company-wide coordination with content strategy, product management, design, and engineering to establish more scalable and clear metric naming, descriptions, and help documentation to help reduce confusion of what a metric is, how it is calculated, and how it is often used in conjunction with other metrics to derive particular insights; and the design of contextual in-product help and education UI components and interactions.

2016
Reactions measurement at Facebook

Supported the launch of reactions on Facebook through PMing and product design of reaction measurement in Facebook Ads, Page Manager, Page Insights, and more.

2016
Instagram Ads launch at Facebook

Supported the launch of Instagram ads measurement in Facebook Ads Manager and Power Editor by establishing a new framework for the growing number of potential ad placement platforms and formats.

2015
Ads Reporting and Measurement at Facebook
2015
Atlas at Facebook
2014
Platform Product v1 at Automatic Labs
2014
Insurance Framework at Automatic Labs
2014
MeetingHero (Worklife) at Worklife
2014
Garden Design System at Zendesk
2014
v1 Design System and Agent UI Enhancements at Zendesk
2014
Zendesk Inbox at Zendesk
2013
Lightning Design System at Salesforce
2013
Salesforce1 at Salesforce
2012
Chatter at Salesforce
2011
Zapier v1 at Zapier

Work Experience

2019 — Now
Oakland, CA

We improve people's relationship with technology and services by partnering with companies to deliver simple, human experiences through world-class research, product strategy, and design.

We believe that products and services are tools for empowering people—driven by a desire to make someone’s life a little easier and simpler—and that even the most powerful and complex tools can be friendly and approachable.

2001 — 2019

Notable clients: Google Analytics, Square, MeetingHero, Varo Money, Prosperworks, Zapier, SmartRecruiters, and more.

2015 — 2017
2014 — 2015
Director of Design at Automatic Labs
San Francisco, CA
2013 — 2014
San Francisco, CA
2012 — 2013
San Francisco, CA
2011 — 2011
Director of Design at Veterans United Home Loans
Columbia, MO
2007 — 2009
Designer at Robison Creative Studios
Ozark, MO
2005 — 2007
Visual Designer at Whitaker Publishing
Springfield, MO
2005 — 2005
Art Director at Metropolitan Magazine
Springfield, MO