{"id":4172,"date":"2017-10-24T11:49:13","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T18:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onehub.com\/blog\/?p=4172"},"modified":"2017-10-24T11:56:38","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T18:56:38","slug":"onehubs-new-product-designer-wants-invisible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onehub.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/24\/onehubs-new-product-designer-wants-invisible\/","title":{"rendered":"Onehub\u2019s new product designer wants to be invisible"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"We recently brought on Karsten Rowe to join our product design team here at Onehub, and honestly, he\u2019s hoping you won\u2019t even notice his work. <\/p>\n

Rowe designs, wireframes and storyboards experiences across all of Onehub\u2019s products, including our data security tool, Marshal<\/a>. \u201cMy goal,\u201d said Rowe, \u201cis to remove friction and make the product more seamless.\u201d<\/p>\n

His design philosophy is \u201cless is better.\u201d Distill an experience down to the bare goal by moving everything else out of the way. If you want the user to click a button, Rowe believes that you \u201cdon\u2019t need to color the button red and make it bigger. You just simply remove lesser important elements from the screen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ironically, Rowe\u2019s less is better approach and hard work means that he doesn\u2019t really want you to notice his efforts. He wants his design to be invisible to you so that it just works. The result is that you can do what you want quickly and easily and spend less time using our product. <\/p>\n

Perhaps this dedication to clean efficiency is due in part to his European upbringing. Rowe went to university in England, where he studied design and worked for a stint in Germany before returning to London. Rowe made the leap to our Seattle offices after working for a startup in Michigan. <\/p>\n

He joined Onehub because he had always aspired to work in tech on the West Coast, and also because he liked the team here. \u201cThey were friendly and approachable,\u201d said Rowe. Additionally, he was impressed with the design leadership here at Onehub and with the design-led team process.<\/p>\n

When he\u2019s not at work Rowe says you can find him running around lakes or boxing in the gym (which allows him to more enjoy his time at the pub). He\u2019s in the midst of training for the Seattle marathon, and unlike his design philosophy, he\u2019s very much still visible to his mom, whom he calls every Sunday. <\/p>\n

You can see more of Rowe’s work on Dribbble<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We recently brought on Karsten Rowe to join our product design team here at Onehub, and honestly, he\u2019s hoping you won\u2019t even notice his work. Rowe designs, wireframes and storyboards experiences across all of Onehub\u2019s products, including our data security […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":4173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[166],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onehub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onehub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onehub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onehub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onehub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.onehub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onehub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onehub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onehub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onehub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}