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Product Designer · Brooklyn, NY

15+ years designing how people watch video.

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OTT
Cross-platform specialist
3×
Acquired companies
Millions
of daily plays
AI + CE
AI workflows & Consumer Electronics
Selected work

Case studies &
highlights.

These are projects where I had the most impact. They range from inventing TV patterns at a tiny startup to keeping design systems alive through acquisitions and rebrands.

Platform design · Vimeo
Vimeo Streaming

Designing Vimeo's OTT distribution product across web, TV, and mobile, giving creators the tools to launch and manage their own streaming channels.

$429M+Annual creator revenue
11+Platforms
5,000+Channels launched
Emerging tech · Looking Glass
Looking Glass Go mobile app

Designing the iOS companion app for a holographic display. Entirely new territory: depth, AI-generated 3D, and hardware state management with no existing playbook.

0→1Mobile app
2D→3DAI conversion
2024Shipped
0→1 product · Boxee
Cloud DVR experience

Designing Cloud DVR recording flows, scheduling interfaces, and social TV features for a living-room product built before streaming boxes were really a category. Boxee was later acquired by Samsung.

0→1Cloud DVR UX
10-ftTV interface
Acquiredby Samsung
D2C platform · VHX
Creator monetization tools

Designing VHX's payment and audience-management flows, the infrastructure that let indie filmmakers and creators run their own streaming businesses. These patterns later carried over into Vimeo when they acquired VHX.

D2CVideo commerce
Acquiredby Vimeo
2015Shipped
Senior thesis · MICA 2009
Script

Winner of the Stempel Thesis Prize: An annual scholarship awarded to a MICA senior exhibiting exemplary thesis work.

Vimeo.com
About

The person behind the work.

Hi 👋 I'm Don. I'm a product designer in Brooklyn. I've spent most of my career in streaming video and consumer electronics, starting with 10-foot TV interfaces at Boxee, then moving into Samsung's Smart TV platform after the acquisition. From there I joined VHX, where we built tools for independent creators to run their own streaming businesses. When Vimeo acquired VHX, I stayed on and spent nearly a decade building out their OTT platform across 11 platforms (web, mobile, and every major TV OS). More recently I worked on holographic displays at Looking Glass and got an AI for UX Design certification. I use AI tools a lot in my process now, mostly for exploring ideas quickly and prototyping.

Skills & craft

10-foot UI Cross-platform Design systems AI prototyping Consumer electronics Monetization flows Emerging tech 0→1
Drawing ligers
Career narrative

How I got here.

I started at small hardware startups and ended up at larger streaming platforms. I've learned a lot at every step. Three of the companies I've worked at were eventually acquired, which is a weird thing to have in common, but the through-line has been video, and screens you watch from across the room.

July 2010 – July 2013
Boxee
Designer · New York, NY

Where it all started. At Boxee, I helped design early Cloud DVR and social TV features when the streaming space was still brand new. I also pitched in on packaging and marketing for our hardware. In 2013, Samsung acquired Boxee, which was a great next step for the product we had built together.

Cloud DVR Social TV 0→1 Hardware launch Acquired by Samsung
July 2013 – Nov 2015
Samsung
Senior Product Designer · New York, NY

After Samsung acquired Boxee, I designed multi-screen experiences for their Smart TV platform, integrating Boxee's software into Samsung's TV interface and contributing to the design of next-generation remotes. I learned a lot about how design works (and doesn't) inside a massive hardware company.

Smart TV Multi-screen Hardware integration 10-foot UI
2013 – 2014
One Month
Designer (Contract) · New York, NY

Contributed to MVP design during Y Combinator (S13). Helped turn technical curriculum into clearer workflows that supported their seed funding round.

Oct 2015 – May 2016
VHX
Senior Product Designer · Brooklyn, NY

Designed VHX's direct-to-consumer video tools, focused on payment flows and audience management. The goal was giving independent creators the infrastructure to run their own streaming channels. A lot of the OTT app patterns we built here carried over into Vimeo after the acquisition.

D2C video Payment flows Creator tools Acquired by Vimeo
2022 – 2024
Looking Glass
Senior Product Designer (Contract) · Brooklyn, NY

Worked on interaction models for holographic displays and a design system connecting 2D desktop workflows with 3D spatial output. Worked closely with graphics engineers on Unity-based applications.

June 2016 – June 2025
Vimeo
Senior Product Designer · New York, NY

Nearly a decade at Vimeo, starting with the VHX integration after the acquisition. Designed Vimeo Streaming's cross-platform distribution across web, mobile, and TV apps, and worked on interaction patterns for the Vimeo player (millions of daily plays). Maintained shared design systems for web and mobile as the company evolved from a creator tool to a B2B platform.

OTT platform Cross-platform Design systems Video player UX Acquired by Bending Spoons
Next chapter
???
Probably something interesting

Not sure exactly what's next — but hoping it involves video, emerging tech, or a problem that doesn't have an obvious solution yet. 😉

Available now Open to the right thing
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Contact

Let's talk.

If you're building something interesting in video or emerging tech, I'd love to hear about it.

don@polisti.co📧 LinkedIn👨‍💻 @donosaur📸