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title: "Joseph Woodward — Senior Staff Product Designer"
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description: "Senior Staff Product Designer. Design systems, accessibility, and iOS/Android product design at Snap, Microsoft, DoorDash, and Roam — now Founding Designer at Roam."
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# Joseph Woodward — Senior Staff Product Designer

Joseph Woodward is a senior staff product designer based in Brooklyn and the Catskills, New York. Currently Founding Designer at Roam, previously Senior Staff Product Designer at Snapchat and Design Lead at Microsoft Outlook. He has shaped products at Roam, Snap, Microsoft, DoorDash, and Disney — from design systems and native apps to brand identity, 3D and motion.

## Focus

- Software design across native iOS, Android, and web
- Design systems: tokens, components, documentation, accessibility
- Brand identity, animation, and 3D
- Design engineering — designs ship as code

## Experience

### Founding Designer · Roam (current)

AI-powered virtual office for distributed teams. Leading 0-to-1 product and brand design across video meetings, chat, and AI meeting summaries, including native iOS and Android apps. Work includes the live virtual office (company presence on the map), On-Air immersive events, the Theater for all-hands, Chat (built on AInbox) and AI meeting summaries (Magic Minutes).

### Senior Staff Product Designer · Snapchat

Led Snapchat's design system as a Senior Staff Product Designer: company-wide components (including bottom sheets), color consolidation, typography, and accessibility — dynamic type and color contrast built into components and template screens. Partnered with infrastructure engineering, with engineers contributing back to the system.

### Design Lead · Microsoft Outlook

Outlook design across mobile and web. Owned multiple feature areas; see /llm/microsoft for details. Earlier Microsoft work also covered SwiftKey.

### Earlier · DoorDash, Disney

Product design at DoorDash and Disney before Microsoft.

## Projects

- [Roam](https://www.joewoodward.co/roam) — Founding Designer
  Founding Designer at Roam — an AI-powered virtual office for distributed teams. Leading 0-to-1 product and brand design across video meetings, chat, and AI meeting summaries, including native iOS and …
- [DoorDash](https://www.joewoodward.co/doordash) — Staff Product Designer
  Staff Product Designer who extended DoorDash's design system as the consumer app moved into grocery, convenience, and retail — new patterns and components, plus mentoring designers and partnering on t…
- [Snapchat](https://www.joewoodward.co/snapchat) — Senior Staff Product Designer
  Led Snapchat's design system as a Senior Staff Product Designer: company-wide components (including bottom sheets), color consolidation, typography, and accessibility — dynamic type and color contrast…
- [Microsoft](https://www.joewoodward.co/microsoft) — Design Lead, Outlook
  Design Lead for Outlook across iOS, Android, and macOS. Redesigned core surfaces of the app, defined Fluent Dark Mode contrast and elevation rules used across Microsoft 365 mobile, and helped start th…
- [Cabin](https://www.joewoodward.co/cabin) — Catskill, NY
  My wife and I built our Catskill cabin this year on Paradise Lake, at the foot of the mountain. A secluded parcel near Catskill, NY — the lake freezes in winter, with the Hudson River, trails and skii…
- [The Dugout](https://www.joewoodward.co/dugout) — Your club's news, live games, scores and tables
  Designed and built The Dugout, an AI-powered football app for iOS and web — live scores, match schedules, AI-summarized news, and league standings for Premier League, Championship, and World Cup teams…

## Social

- [twitter](https://x.com/The__Woodpecker)
- [linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jcwoodward/)
- [strava](https://www.strava.com/athletes/42323774)

## Other Pages

- [Contact](https://www.joewoodward.co/contact) · LLM mirror: [/llm/contact](https://www.joewoodward.co/llm/contact)
- [Photos](https://www.joewoodward.co/photos) · LLM mirror: [/llm/photos](https://www.joewoodward.co/llm/photos)
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