Parker Ehret

Parker Ehret

California

About

Product design leader with experience across a wide range of categories - autonomous vehicles, fintech, security and encryption, on-demand hiring, social apps, content platforms, health and beauty, streaming video, AR/VR.

Led product design of a suite of software tools for autonomous vehicles at Aurora. Led product design at Logitech, designed software and gaming peripherals for Logitech G, and mobile apps for Ultimate Ears. Created a content ecosystem and design system at Yahoo, and redefined QuickBooks Apps for small businesses at Intuit.

Created award-winning digital experiences at TBWA\Chiat\Day and Deutsch LA for brands like Adidas, Apple, Dr. Pepper, The Grammy's, Infiniti, Nissan, Pepsi, Target, Tostitos, Visa, and Volkswagon.

Work Experience

2023 — Now
Menlo Park, CA
2022 — Now
Livermore, CA

Beacon is a software platform that allows you to maintain ESG compliance and monitor all data, services, and utility usage for any property, in real time, without any hardware. Beacon understands your usage habits and alerts you about any anomalies or abnormalities

2023 — 2023
Menlo Park, CA

Investments platform, diligence, financials, reporting, design system, component library, and website.

2019 — 2022
Mountain View, CA

First Product Designer hired at Aurora. Was at Aurora as it grew from less than 200 employees to over 1,700, from Series A to IPO. $AUR

  • Designed a suite of autonomous vehicle software for simulation, perception, motion planning, mapping, dispatch, fleet management, vehicle operations, log playback, and company metrics
  • Created the design language and design system for software at Aurora.
  • Led UX and design for vehicle operators and rider experience.
  • Led UX and design efforts with marketing and comms on company website and intranet.
  • Helped with hiring across design, research, product management, industrial design, and engineering.
2005 — 2022
Product Design & iOS Development at Parker Ehret

UX and Product Design for a multitude of clients across a broad spectrum of industries.

Creative Direction, Strategy and Vision, Product Design, UX, Mobile Apps, AI, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Conversational UI, Video and Photography, Illustration, Motion, Development and Engineering, E-commerce, Branding, Copywriting, Music Supervision

Advisor: Blis, DraftCard, Ghost Drive, WizeBit

Technology: Highlight, Inspo, Intuit, LiveStation, MEDL Mobile, Paired Up, QuickBooks, StriVR, Token, Tumblr, Unitas Global, What's Good, Yahoo

Entertainment: Daniel Bedingfield, Daniel Powter, Drive Music, GoDigital Media Group, Improv Olympics, Taylor Mathews, Warner Bros. Music Group

Retail and Services: First Republic Bank, Matsuda, Pacific Signaling, States Coffee, Story Coffee, The Stronghold

2018 — 2019
Head of Design at Blis
SF Bay Area, CA

Acquired by Third Summit

A gig economy platform focused on people working in entertainment and video creation. The app included integrated direct messaging, contact organizer, location-based job board, and a place to create, search, and share video-based résumés.

2016 — 2018
Product Design at Logitech
Newark, CA

Logitech, Ultimate Ears, and Logitech G

2016 — 2016
Product Design at Intuit
Mountain View, CA

Quickbooks, Quickbooks Apps, and Self-Employed

2014 — 2015
Head of Product Design & UX at oneID
San Francisco, CA

Acquired by Neustar ($NSR)

A security and encryption platform with the mission of eliminating usernames and passwords. Our technology worked across all platforms and browsers, and was featured during the release of the Apple Watch. Using asymmetric encryption, our technology was extended to payment and checkout flows, where we powered a number of donation sites, including Ready for Hillary and the DCCC.

2013 — 2014
Product Design at Yahoo!
Sunnyvale, CA

Senior Visual Interaction Designer for Homepage, Navigation, Magazines, News, Feed

Desktop Experience, Mobile Experience, Strategy, Branding, Product Design, Mobile Apps, IA, UI, UX, Visual Design, Motion, Interaction

2012 — 2013
Director, Product Design & UX at eSalon
Culver City, CA

Product Design, Web and Mobile Design, Visual Design, IA, UX, UI, Branding, Strategy, Marketing, Identity, Signage

2011 — 2012
UX Designer at Deutsch LA
Playa Vista, CA

Worked on: California Milk, Dr. Pepper, Fresh & Easy, HTC, Pop Secret, Target, Volkswagon

2010 — 2011
UX Designer at TBWA\Chiat\Day
Playa Vista, CA

Worked on: Adidas, Apple, Bare Escentuals, Energizer, The Grammy's, Infiniti, Let There Be Dragons, Nissan, Pacific Standard Time, Pepsi, Projeqt, Qatar Foundation, Tostitos, Visa

Side Projects

2023
Twitter Spatial UI

In anticipation of Apple's Vision Pro, I tried to imagine what Twitter might look like using Spatial UI.

2019

Coffee Talk Stickers are fun and expressive stickers for coffee conversation in iMessage.

2015
Apple Music Desktop App Concept

In 2015, Apple Music was released on iPhone. I felt like it deserved a proper desktop app. So, I took the new design language into consideration and designed my ideal Apple Music desktop experience.

Awards

2018
Red Dot Award from Red Dot

6x Winner

2018
Good Design Award from Good Design

5x Winner

2018
iF Design Award from iF Design

9x Winner

2018
IDA Award from International Design Awards

8x Winner

2014
Apple Design Award from Apple
2014
Webby from Webby Awards

2x Winner

2012
Crunchie from Crunchie Awards

2x Winner

2012
Site of the Day from FWA

2x Winner

2012
Mobile Site of the Month from FWA
2011
Cannes Lion from Cannes Lions International Festival

2x Winner

2011
Best Educational Resource from SXSW
2011
Clio from Clio Awards
2011
D&AD Award from D&AD
2011
Mobile Site of the Day from FWA

2x Winner

Volunteering

2019 — 2019
Volunteer at Science Is Elementary
East Palo Alto

Taught Kindergarten students about forces and collisions.

2016 — 2016
Instructor at Code.org
Los Altos

Taught 3rd grade students for The Hour of Code during Computer Science Education Week.

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