A little over one month short of working for The Omni Group for 17 years, I was laid off yesterday. A good number of my former co-workers were laid off as well.

The software landscape has changed quite a bit in the last several years, and these changes finally caught up with the good folks at Omni, so they did what they had to do. I give them all of my thanks for taking me on back in 2003, and for all that I have learned working with them.

As a result, I’m on the market, so to speak.

So what did I do at Omni? In short, I designed applications for macOS and iOS. If you look at any of Omni’s applications, you’re looking at my work. Icons, UX, UI, but mostly the icons. I joke that being a UI designer is 95% being a production artist, and that holds pretty true.

With a handful of exceptions (mostly the OmniFocus toolbar button icons, notably the “Clean Up” icon which was designed by my former co-worker and friend William) all of the current iconography was done by me. 

Also had a big hand in for the UX for all of the Omni applications, both macOS and iOS.

I was also the OmniGraffle Product Manager for 12 years, so there’s that as well.

I am extremely proficent at OmniGraffle, but I’m also a quick study and can pick up Sketch or Illustrator or what-have-you in a jiffy.

Before Omni I worked in commercial printing (prepress), early web development (late 1990′s), and Military Intelligence, for what that’s worth.